I just saw this film by sheer chance on "You Tube". It's so bad it's not even fun to watch it.
Laura Hidalgo was in her heyday the most beautiful Argentinian actress (actually she was of Rumanian origin) and cast always as "The Bad Woman", THAT woman (at the end "Bad Women" ended up crushed by a huge rock bolting down the mountain side, knocked down by a ten ton track, fell into a dark abyss or any other substantial accident, as to ensure there were no sequels of her wrongdoings. "Bad Women" were a bad example for "Good Girls", that's all.
Even with the poor quality of this film (very blurred images, like out of focus, and a sound track that seems to have been dry cleaned with vitriolic acid (a uniformed condition of all the old Argentinian films on "You Tube", a technicality that escapes my understanding) her beauty and sex appeal are quite remarkable, as remarkable as her total lack of acting ability.
And the Script!!!... Just an example: María Magdalena goes for a holiday to her Estancia in the country (Brazil was the location for this film) with her fiancé, and here comes the parish priest, surrounded by a flock of young Brazilian boys (incredible clairvoyance of things to come) to greet her and point blank, when seeing "her man" behind her, preaches her about the intolerably immoral situation (she's there alone with her fiancé, no brothers accompanying her) and the fiancé, affronted by such outrageous self sufficiency asks the priest: "What have I done to deserve such an attitude from you?" and the priest responds: "I wish you would have a daughter when you'll get married to know the answer, Sir!", then turns around with chin high up on the air and leaves (closely followed by his flock of young boys...).
It will make you shriek with laughter!
Later on we see native women in front of the village church gossiping about María Magdalena: "They say he's a married man!" "No, really!" "To think I used to cradle her in my arms as a baby!" and some more nonsense of that sort.
Well, even for 1954 it's obvious this film was patronized by the catholic church, otherwise the producers were a bit inebriated, deranged or high on something...
An absolute waste of time and celluloid.
