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Allá en el Rancho Grande / At head of title: Cinemateca presents Title in English subtitles: Over at the big ranch , Mexico - Buenos Aires, Argentina : Chicago, IL : Cinemateca--Condor Media Inc. ; Distributed by Facets Video, 2007. - 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. - plastic 4 3/4 in. burning - Classic Mexican cinema . - Classic Mexican cinema. .

Originally produced as a Mexican motion picture in 1936.

Canciones adaptación y supervisión musical de Lorenzo Barcelata, "Canción Mixteca" de José López Alavés ; fotografia, Gabriel Figueroa ; sonido, B.J. Kroger ; escenografía [art director], Jorge Fernández ; montaje [editor], Fernando de Fuentes ; "Jarabe Tapatio" interpretación de Emilio Fernández y Olga Falcón ; cancioneros y guitarristas Trio Murciélagos y Trio Tariácuras. Canciones adaptación y supervisión musical de Lorenzo Barcelata, "Canción Mixteca" de José López Alavés ; fotografia, Gabriel Figueroa ; sonido, B.J. Kroger ; escenografía [art director], Jorge Fernández ; montaje [editor], Fernando de Fuentes ; "Jarabe Tapatio" interpretación de Emilio Fernández y Olga Falcón ; cancioneros y guitarristas Trio Murciélagos y Trio Tariácuras.

Tito Guízar (José Francisco Ruelas), René Cardona (Felipe), Esther Fernández (Cruz), Lorenzo Barcelata (Martín), Emma Roldán (Angela), Carlos López Chaflán (Florentina), Margarita Cortés (Eulalia), and Dolores Camarillo (Marcelina), Manolo Noriega (Don Rosendo), Hernán Vera (Venancio), Alfonso Sánchez Tello (Don Nabor).

Orphaned siblings José Francisco and his sister Eulalia came to Rancho Grande to be watched over by their godmother Ángela. So did the unfortunate Cruz, their late mother's godchild, when she was orphaned as well. They grow up together with Felipe, the patron's son, who becomes José Francisco's best friend. Now Felipe has become the Patron, and has made José Francisco the manager. José Francisco is secretly in love with Cruz, but when Ángela notices that Felipe likes Cruz as well, a series of misunderstandings put their friendship to the test. This signature film marks the beginning of a new and distinctly Mexican genre, the comedia ranchera, which continues to be exploited in Mexican cinema. The classical hacienda (ranch) setting and its folkloric, romanticized nostalgia struck a chord with the Mexican middle class in the 1930s, doing much to establish mariachi as a national musical form.


DVD; NTSC, Region 1; Dolby Digital sound; full screen presentation.


In Spanish with optional subtitles in English.

Winner, Special Recommendation Award of the 1938 Venice Film Festival to Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936), director Fernando de Fuentes - For its overall artistic contribution.

ISBN: 1565806654 9781565806658

Standard No.: 736899109028

Publisher. No.: DV94246 Cinemateca

Source: Midwest Tape http://www.midwesttapes.com

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ranch life--Drama.
Charros--Mexico--Drama.
Ranches--Mexico--Drama.
Social classes--Mexico--Drama.
Man-woman relationships--Drama.
Rural comedies--Mexico.
Charros.
Man-woman relationships.
Ranch life.
Ranches.
Rural comedies.
Social classes.
Ranch life--Drama.
Man-woman relationship--Drama.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mexico.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Feature films--Mexico.
Foreign language films--Spanish.
Romantic comedy films--Mexico.
Musical films--Mexico.
Rural comedy films--Mexico.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures--Mexico.
Spanish language films.
Rural comedy films.
Fiction films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Musical films.
Romantic comedy films.
Comedy films.
Musical films.
Feature films.
Romantic comedy films.
Musical films.
Rural comedy films.
Fiction films.
Comedy--Feature.
Musical--Feature.
Comédies romantiques (Films)
Films musicaux.
Films de fiction.

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.F67 / A45 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/72