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Gángsters contra Charros

Gangsters vs Charros

Mexico 1948
produced by
Juan Orol for Espana Sono Films
directed by Juan Orol
starring Rosa Carmina, Juan Orol, José Pulido, Roberto Canedo, Raúl Guerrero, Manuel Arvide, Florencio Castelló, Chel López, José Negrete, José Slim, Jorge Camacho, Ramón Randall, Ricardo Avendano, Kiko Mendive, Silvestre Méndez
written by Juan Orol, music by Antonio Rosado

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Johnny (Juan Orol), a big city gangster on the run, comes to a small town ... where he finds his former girlfriend, singer Rosa (Rosa Carmina) performing in a night club. This brings back memories of course:

Many years ago, Johnny has worked as an honest car mechanic, and his life has been going exactly nowhere - until a gangsterboss witnessed him in a fistfight in which he beat the living daylights out of 3 opponents single-handedly. The boss was quick to offer him a career in crime, and Johnny became a success almost immediately. Eventually though, Johnny ran across Rosa, fell in love with her, and started dating her. The problem: Rosa was the moll of a big gangsterboss, so Johnny had to gun him down - which didn't sit well with his gang, who not only tried to get him on their own, but also used the police to get rid of him. Eventually, Johnny got into a shootout and faked his own death, just to get away. Since then, he, an officially dead man, is on the run ...

Back in the now: Upon meeting Johnny again, Rosa immediately falls in love with him again, but there's a problem, she is now the girlfriend of Pancho (José Pulido), head of the local charros, and he is not one to give her up easily. Thing is, the local merchants don't like Pancho and gang one bit, so they hire Johnny and friends to get rid of them. Soon a gangwar is on, but Johnny is quick to win the upper hand because losing Rosa to him leaves Pancho a broken man. Eventually, he pays a visit to kill her - but seeing the woman he still loves he just can't, and when she explains that she hasn't left him out of cruelty but out of love for Johnny which predates their relationship by years, he is almost willing to give up everything - but he still has a gang to lead, to he challenges Johnny to a final shootout - in which not only Pancho and Johnny but also Rosa find their deaths ...

 

A weird genre mix of Western and gangster movie with definite touches of Jacques Tourneur's film noir masterpiece Out of the Past ... and musical interludes. This all adds up to a not particularly good film, especially when coupled with a very sloppily written script full of plotholes and lacking proper story buildup, a rather clumsy directorial effort that's a bit on the stagey and uninspired side, and a cast of less than great actors. And for all these reasons, Gangsters contra Charros is at least a fun movie, something that might not have invented filmmaking or is at least good at it, but it does give you a chuckle or two, unintended chuckles maybe, but chuckles still.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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