Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a ...
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Title: Hell Without Limits (1978)
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| Lucha Villa | ... | La Japonesa | |
| Ana Martín | ... | Japonesita | |
| Gonzalo Vega | ... | Pancho | |
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Julián Pastor | ... | Octavio |
| Carmen Salinas | ... | Lucy | |
| Fernando Soler | ... | Don Alejo | |
| Emma Roldán | ... | Ludovinia | |
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Blanca Torres | ... | Blanca |
| Marta Aura | ... | Emma, hermana de Octavio | |
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Agustín Silva | ... | Reynaldo |
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Socorro de la Campa | ||
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Francisco Llopis | ... | (as Paco Llopis) |
| Hortensia Santoveña | ... | Clotilde | |
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Nery Ruiz | ||
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Tere Olmedo | ... | Lila |
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Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It's owned by a man and his daughter: Manuelita is gay, aging, afraid; he cross-dresses and entertains as a flamenco dancer; he wants to sell and leave. His daughter wants to stay. The return of Pancho complicates things: he's a hothead Alejo tries to control and he scared Manuelita the year before. Things come to a head as Pancho breaks Alejo's hold on him, then flirts and dances with Manuelita and finds himself at risk of being called a "maricón." Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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28 April 1978 (Mexico) See more »Also Known As:
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Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal.
The themes of this film are quite interesting, and in someways ahead of their time. We have a very blunt look at homosexuality in 1978, and based on a book from 1966. And, in a way, it is something of a multi-cultural film because the author, José Donoso, wrote the book in Chile but was later a resident of Mexico, Spain and Iowa -- his personal papers are in the University of Iowa archives.
I am not sure if a good edition exists. The one I saw was a bit rough, and this is the sort of film that could really use a new audience and some love from Criterion.