Cinema
Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina
Manuel Romero · 1937
Synopsis
Buenos Aires, at the beginning of the century. Alberto Rosales, a young man from a good family, lives by night among tango, bars and cabarets, and his family wants to settle him down. He falls in love with the Rubia Mireya, a tango dancer of modest background, and leaves his fiancée, Camila Peña, for her; his father persuades him to return to Camila. The story then jumps ten and then twenty years, and the Mocho Ponce, played by Florencio Parravicini, composes the tango that gives the film its title.
Context
Released on 31 March 1937 and produced by Lumiton, the film was one of the great popular successes of the golden age of Argentine cinema. Romero wrote it with Mario Bernard from his own play, and Hugo del Carril made his screen debut in it. Domingo Di Núbila praised the reconstruction of Calle Florida and the costume budget, exceptional for the time. Enrique Carreras made a new version in 1969.
Who it is for
A comedy in Spanish of an hour and a half, made up of nocturnal scenes and sung tangos.
Prizes and reception
A popular success on its release and a classic for Domingo Di Núbila.