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Muriel Catalá and Carmen Sevilla in La loba y la Paloma (1974)

Review by ma-cortes

La loba y la Paloma

6/10

Dark and violent drama, including trills, chills , disturbing events, and with a good cast

A young girl, Muriel Catala, witnesses the murder of her father Acebo, Jose Jaspe , by Zayas, Donald Pleasence. The beautiful teen is unsettling and mute, her silence dates from the day who she saw her daddy to be slashed and killed. She is interned into a insanity institution, while Zayas is imprisoned at a state jail .Then, she is released from a sanatory and returns home, where meets his relatives, 4 villains, the bomb-shell Carmen Sevilla , the baddie Aldo Sambrell, the handicapped astute dwarf Michael Dunn, the ruthless Donald Pleasence who seek to wrest the secret place of a golden sculpture discovered by his dad and Zayas.

This is a peculiar thriller with nasty roles , brief character studio, violence and a little of topless female nudity. Furthermore , director Gonzalo Suarez adds some surrealist and fantastic elements, as usual . It contains thrilling scenes , eerie set-pieces, and the important cast is pretty good. The plot is plain and simple, a bunch of mean people attempt to find out the location of a prehistoric gold statue and all of them face each other to locate it until an unexpected denouement .Donald Pleasence provides a nice acting as the ambitious ex-con looking for the location the valuable statuette. The known actress Carmen Sevilla is gorgeous , sexy and explosive. The ordinary villain actors, Michael Dunn and Aldo Sambrell are awesome playing the bad guys. Muriel Catala delivers a mediocre acting as the young woman who just relased from a mental institution returns home and takes on a new set of horrors.

Evocative cinematography from Santiago Crespo, and Carlos Suarez, director's brother, shot on marvelous location in Celoriu, Miembro, Llanes, Tazones, Villaviciosa, Gijon, Asturias . Enjoyable musical score by the British Malcolm Lockyer, including an attractive and catching leitmotif. This is a Spanish, British coproduction , being well financed by prestigious producer Andres Vicente Gomez and uncredited Harry Alan Towers. The motion picture, She-wolf and the Dove, was professionally directed by Gonzalo Suarez, though it has some flaws and gaps .Suarez is a good craftsman who has directed and written nice but strange flicks, such as :Fata Morgana, Las Crueles, Ditirambo, Morbo, Al diablo con amor, La Regenta, Beatriz, Parranda, Reina Zanahoria, Epilogo, Mi nombre es sombra, El detective y la muerte . His best one was Remando al viento and Don Juan de los Infiernos.Rating :acceptable and passable.
  • ma-cortes
  • Sep 25, 2018

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