The Wildcat (1936 film)

The Wildcat
The Wildcat
Directed by	Rosario Pi
Written by	Manuel Penella (libretto); Rosario Pi;
Starring	; ; ; Mapy Cortés;
Cinematography	; Isidoro Goldberger;
Music by	Manuel Penella
Production; company	CIFESA
Release date	6 March 1936
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

The Wildcat (Spanish: El gato montés) is a 1936 Spanish musical drama directed by Catalan Rosario Pi and starring Pablo Hertogs, María del Pilar Lebrón, Víctor Merás and Mapy Cortés.^[1] It is based on the 1916 Spanish popular opera (also known as zarzuela or Spanish operetta) El gato montés by Manuel Penella. El gato montés is the first film in Spanish sound cinema directed by a woman.

Cast[]

as Juanillo, El Gato Montés
as Soleá
as Pesuño
as Juanillo niño
Modesto Cid
as Frasquita
Mapy Cortés as Lolilla
as Tiple
as Soleá (niña)
as Padre Antón
as Caballista
as Rafael, El Macareno
as Niño
as Hormigón
as Caireles

References[]

^ Bentley p.127

Bibliography[]

Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer, 2008.
Martin-Márquez, Susan. Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen. Oxford UP, 1999.

External links[]

The Wildcat at IMDb

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[1] Bentley p.127

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