The Naked Dawn (1955)

Approved  |   |  Crime, Drama, Western  |  30 November 1955 (Denmark)
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In Mexico, at the dawn of the automobile, modern bandit Santiago burglarizes train freight cars and falls in love with a poor farmer's wife.

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Santiago
Betta St. John ...
Maria Lopez
Eugene Iglesias ...
Manuel Lopez
Charlita ...
Tita (entertainer)
Roy Engel ...
Guntz (fence)
Tony Martinez ...
Vicente
Francis McDonald ...
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Santiago, a jolly modern bandito, has just lost his partner when he happens on the isolated farm of young Manuel and Maria Lopez. Manuel's aid is enlisted in what develops into a violent encounter with Santiago's fence. Exposed to money, the fast life, and Santiago's anarchistic philosophy, Manuel (formerly simple and hardworking) is in serious danger of being corrupted (and Maria is not immune either)... Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

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François Truffaut cited this film as an inspiration for Jules and Jim. In fact, he even mentions Jules and Jim in his review of this film. Truffaut's film came out six years later. See more »

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Santiago: Aww! You know how to die. You watch plenty others.
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AI HOMBRE
Music by Herschel Burke Gilbert
Lyrics by William Copeland
Sung and Danced by Charlita
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A romantic life style
28 March 2015 | by (Buffalo, New York) – See all my reviews

King of the cheapies Edgar Ullmer directed this modern west saga set in Mexico with something he normally didn't have at his disposal, technicolor. Even with that it's certainly one parsimonious production, but not bad.

Although why he cast Arthur Kennedy replete with dyed black hair and a greasy beard as a Mexican bandit who knows. This was a role so right for Gilbert Roland. I guess he wasn't available.

Nevertheless Kennedy gives it his best as the charismatic bandit who after losing one partner doing a job is ready for another. He takes refuge in the house of farmer Eugene Iglesias and wife Betta St.John. In one way or another he seduces both of them with what they see as a romantic life style. Both want to go off with him and leave the other.

The Naked Dawn is a curious little film, deep in character rather than plot. But I think it would have been a classic with a Gilbert Roland or a Fernando Lamas in the lead.


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