Allá en el Rancho Grande | |
Director: | Fernando de Fuentes |
Screenplay: | Antonio Guzmán Aguilera (as Guz Aguila) Fernando de Fuentes |
Story: | Antonio Guzmán Aguilera Luz Guzmán de Arellano |
Starring: | Tito Guízar Esther Fernández René Cardona |
Music: | Lorenzo Barcelata |
Cinematography: | Gabriel Figueroa |
Editing: | Fernando de Fuentes |
Studio: | Lombardo Films |
Distributor: | United Artists |
Runtime: | 95 minutes |
Country: | Mexico |
Language: | Spanish |
Budget: | $20,000[1] |
Allá en el Rancho Grande (en|Out on the Great Ranch) is a 1936 Mexican romantic drama film directed and co-written by Fernando de Fuentes and starring Tito Guízar and Esther Fernández. The film is considered to be the one that started the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
The owner and the general manager of a ranch (Rancho Grande), two good friends, fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
The film was a big hit and made a profit of over $400,000.[1]
In 1949, it was remade by the same director and shot in colour with new principals.