Muerte de un ciclista
Spain,
1955, 88 min
Shown in 1957
CREDITS
- dir
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Juan Antonio Bardem
- prod
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Manuel J. Goyanes, Georges de Beauregard
- scr
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Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis Fernando de Igoa
- cam
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Alfredo Fraile
- editor
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Margarita de Ochoa
- mus
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Isidro B. Maiztegui
- cast
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Lucía Bosé, Alberto Closas, Carlos Casaravilla, Otello Toso, Bruna Corra, Alicia Romay, Julia Delgado Caro, Matilde Muñoz Sampedro
- prod co
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Guión P.C.; Suevia Films; Trionfalcine
- source
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Janus Films
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COMMENTS
Shown as The Age of Infidelity.
OTHER
Lucía Bosé plays a married woman who knocks down and fatally injures a cyclist while she is driving with her lover (Alberto Closas). There are no witnesses to the accident, and the pair flee from the scene. Possible consequences, however, are suggested at a subsequent cocktail party, by a sly and smiling rogue (Carlos Casaravilla), who threatens to “ferret out your unpretty secrets.” He is a fascinating performer, a social parasite who hates the wealthy people who entertain him. Director Juan Antonio Bardem moves from one sequence to another with startling suddenness, creating considerable dramatic impact. The film is an absorbing one, progressing to its violent climax in convincing and inexorable fashion.
—Paine Knickerbocker, San Francisco Chronicle
FACTOID #319
The Library of Congress supplied the Festival with the only existing print of Double Indemnity for the Fred MacMurray tribute in 1987. The problem was, the reels were not marked for the projectionist. But the show must go on! The projectionist ordered the reels using his intuition and the gamble paid off—the film was screened in perfect sequence.
