Calle Mayor (Main street) is a 1956 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem with a French-Spanish cast led by the American actress Betsy Blair, who was dubbed into Spanish, and the by then Spanish movie star José Suárez.
The film won FRIPESCI award at Venice Film Festival, and was an international success.
It is based on a Carlos Arniches' play titled La señorita de Trévelez. The location shots were Palencia, Cuenca and Logroño.
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Calle Mayor (Main street) is a 1956 Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem with a French-Spanish cast led by the American actress Betsy Blair, who was dubbed into Spanish, and the by then Spanish movie star José Suárez.
The film won FRIPESCI award at Venice Film Festival, and was an international success.
It is based on a Carlos Arniches' play titled La señorita de Trévelez. The location shots were Palencia, Cuenca and Logroño.
Isabel (Betsy Blair) is a good-natured and sensible spinster who lives in a small town with her widow mother. She is losing all her hopes of getting married and having babies.
A bunch of bored middle-aged friends decides to play a trick on Isabel: Juan (José Suárez), the youngest and most handsome of all them, will pretend to fall in love with her. As Isabel lives the courtship full of hopes and joy, Juan realizes too late the cruelty of the situation; and, still pushed by his buddies, he doesn't dare tell Isabel the truth.
When the day of the gala...
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