| Wild Flower | |
| Director: | Emilio Fernández |
| Producer: | Agustin J. Fink |
| Starring: | Dolores del Río Pedro Armendáriz Miguel Ángel Ferriz Fernando Soto LaMarina Mimí Derba |
| Music: | Francisco Domínguez |
| Cinematography: | Gabriel Figueroa |
| Editing: | Jorge Bustos |
| Distributor: | Films Mundiales |
| Runtime: | 94 minutes |
| Country: | Mexico |
| Language: | Spanish |
Wild Flower (Spanish: Flor silvestre) is a 1943 Mexican historical film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz.[1] It is the first Mexican movie of Dolores del Río after her career in silent and Hollywood's Golden Age films. It is the first movie of an extended collaboration between Fernández-Del Rio-Armendáriz, Gabriel Figueroa (cinematography) and Mauricio Magdaleno (writer). It also marked the debut of Emilia Guiú in a small role as an extra. The film is considered one of the defining films of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (1936-1956).[2]
In a small village in central Mexico in the early twentieth century, José Luis, son of the landowner Don Francisco, secretly marries Esperanza, a beautiful, but humble peasant. Disgusted by the wedding and because his son has become in a revolutionary, Don Francisco disinherits his son and kicks him out of his house. After the triumph of the Mexican Revolution, the couple lives happily until Jose Luis is forced to confront a couple of false revolutionaries who have kidnapped Esperanza and his young son.