La razón de la culpa explained
La razón de la culpa (English: "The reason for the blame") is a 1943 Mexican film directed by Juan José Ortega who also directed Corazón salvaje. The film stars Blanca de Castejón,[2] Andrés Soler[3] and María Elena Marqués as well as Pedro Infante as Roberto. This was one of Ricardo Montalbán's first films.[4]
Pedro Infante was still a novice when he was cast in the role of Roberto, a Spaniard gachupín,[5] but it was his northern accent (Sinaloa) that caused the director Juan José Ortega to make the decision to overdub Infante's voice[6] with that of Jesús Valero, who was from Spain. While it was Valero's speaking voice in the film, it was Infante's voice giving character to the songs he interprets.[7] When the film was broadcast on Netflix Spain however, all the voices were overdubbed so that the accents matched those of the viewers in Spain. The role as Roberto was the only film that Infante appeared in that he portrayed a foreigner.[8]
Songs
- Rosalía
- Bendita Palabra by Agustín Lara[9] [10]
Plot
Robert meets and falls in love with a married woman while on a transatlantic crossing from Spain to Mexico. Once in Mexico, he goes to her home and claims to be a friend of her husband Andrés and is offered lodging until he returns.
Notes and References
- Book: Monsiváis, Carlos . 2012 . Pedro Infante. Las leyes del querer (Pedro Infante. The laws of love) . Mexico City, Mexico . Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México . 9786071115584.
- Book: Serrano, Basilio . 2019 . Puerto Rican Women from the Jazz Age: Stories of Success . Bloomington, Indiana, IN, USA . Author House . 9781728316352. "For 1942 Castejón returned to Mexico and secured top billing for La Razon de la Culpa opposite the legendary Pedro Infante".
- News: . Recordarán al actor Andrés Soler en su aniversario luctuoso (Remembering the actor Andrés Soler on his death anniversary) . Informador . Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico . 25 July 2010 . 15 November 2020.
- Book: Garcia Berumen, Frank Javier . 2003 . Brown Celluloid: 1894-1959 . New York, NY, USA . Vantage Press . 336 . [Rita Macedo's] early successes included : La Razon de la Culpa (1942) with Pedro Infante and Ricardo Montalbán . 9780533143054.
- . Pedro Infante; actor y cantante mexicano (Pedro Infante; Mexican actor and singer) . Revista Cambio . Mexico City, Mexico . Revista Cambio . 14 April 2020 . 15 November 2020.
- Book: Curcio-Nagy . Linda A . Beezley . William H . 2011 . Latin American Popular Culture Since Independence, An Introduction . Lanham, MD, USA . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers . 236 . "It includes his first cinematic incursion as an extra in En un burro tres baturros (1939) and his role as a Spaniard—dubbed by a Spanish actor—in La razon de la culpa (1942).". 9781442212565.
- News: Romero Escalante . Victor . 11 March 2019 . El día que Pedro Infante fue español (The day Pedro Infante was Spanish . La Izquierda Diario Mexico . Mexico . 15 November 2020.
- Book: García Riera, Emilio . 1986 . Historia del cine mexicano . Mexico . Secretaría de Educación Pública . 150 . 9789682909412.
- Book: Spottswood, Richard K . 1990 . Ethnic Music on Records, A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893 to 1942, Volume 4 Spanish, Portuguese, Philippines, Basque . Champaign, IL, USA . University of Illinois Press . 19 . 9780252017223.
- Book: Wood, Andrew Grant . 2014 . Agustin Lara, A Cultural Biography . Oxford, UK . Oxford University Press . 285 . 9780199892457.
