Surcos (1951)
A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both.
Top billed cast
María AsquerinoPili (as Maruja Asquerino)
Luis PeñaEl Mellao
Marisa de LezaTonia
Félix DafauceDon Roque 'El Chamberlain'
Francisco ArenzanaPepe
José PradaManuel Pérez
María FrancésLa madre
Ricardo LucíaManolo Pérez
Montserrat CarullaRosario
Manuel de Juan(uncredited)
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