En la palma de tu mano

A lively Mexican hybrid of 'Double Indemnity' and 'Nightmare Alley' that proves still timely today as both the rich and the poor seek solace in the slick patter furnished by fraudulent medium Arturo de Cordova; lit by Alex Phillips with the same hard elegance supplied by greedy and seductive femme fatale Leticia Palma - as sleek and deadly as the silenced pistol de Cordova presents her with

After a delirious final half-hour the entire cast is decisively upstaged at the finale by the amazing set on which it's played out, worthy of Anton Grot in his Warner Bros. heyday twenty years earlier.