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Alfredo Mayo - 1942 ¡A mí la legión! (To me the Legion !)  Poster of the film painted in 1942 by José Peris Aragó (1907-2003) |
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Story
: Jaime Garcia Herranz, Raúl
Cancio Director of photography : Alfredo
Fraile Sound: Enrique la Riva Cameraman: Tomás Duch Army
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Casting :
Alfredo Mayo
(The"Grajo") , Luis
Peña (Mauro) ,
Manuel Luna (commandant of the 4th Bandera), Miguel Pozanco (Curro),
Pilar Soler (Leda), Manuel Arbó (Ionesco), Rufino
Inglés (captain Romero), Fortunato Bernal (Rodete), Arturo
Marín (Samuel) ,
Fred Galiana (Rodríguez), and the Spanish
Foreign Legion
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Original
duration :
82 minutes Premieres: 1942-11-05 - Madrid - Cinema Avenida 1942-15-05 - Barcelona- Cinema Femina. |
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 (Advertising in Spanish cinema revew "Primer Plano" 1942/05/10) |
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| & The story |
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| The film begins when a young man Mauro ( Luis Peña ) signs his enlistment in the Spanish Foreign Legion (1st regiment - 4th battalion) He becomes quickly the best friend of a very popular Spanish legionnaire whose nickname is the "Grajo" (sort of crow) which is very popular in the regiment. During a party in a cabaret in Tetouan (capital of the Spanish Morocco) the "Grajo" (Alfredo Mayo), his girlfriend Leda (Pilar Soler), the old legionnaire Curro (Miguel Pozanco) and Mauro are drinking heavily. After a drunken brawl in the same cabaret, Mauro is charged with a murder (his knife has been found near a dead person). The "Grajo" tries to make him say what happens, but Mauro almost blind drunk is incapable of reminding his recent actions. But the real culprit, an usurer, is discovered with the help of Leda and the "Grajo". But, Mauro who is declared not guilty, has to leave the Legion when he receives a mysterious letter from his country of origin, "Slonia", (the name of an imaginary country of the East of Europe). | ||||
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| Ten
years later, the "Grajo", now a civilian
destitute man, is in Slonia
where he hopes to see again his friend Mauro. But he is engaged by an
anarchist group to kill the reigning prince Oswald of Slonia, "not
because he is a bad prince but only because he is a prince". The
"Grajo", although a very penniless person doesn't accept the contract.
The next morning he discovers the prince Oswald and Mauro are the same
person. He can inform the prince and becomes a consultant of the
monarch. But we are in july of 1936, during an official ball,
the
"Grajo" learns by the diplomats who are present that in Spain a
military uprising has just happened. The "Grajo" decides
imediately to leave his confortable new life and come back to
his
homeland and to be again a legionnaire. Mauro some days later
joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. The last scene of the film is : The "grajo" and Mauro who are climbing up a hill with the Spanish flag but with the two colors, those of before the Spanish Republic. |
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| & Sorry ! The tentative of translation of this page in not still enterely ready. But we can read the complete Spanish or French version and discover in english the short text about the Spanish Foreign Legion, in www.don-alfredo-mayo.com |
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| "¡A
mí la legión!"
(1942) by Juan
de Orduña The Spanish legionnaire "El Grajo" ( Alfredo Mayo ) is singing a legionnaire march song |
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| o-o-o-o-o-o File written in 2007 - Last correction : 2009/07/22 |
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