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| Carlos Villarías uses this expression about 50 times throughout the film. |
First published at
Mostly Movies on 29 November 2010
It was a common practice in the early sound era for
Hollywood studios to produce a second, nearly identical, version of a film in a
foreign language. They were produced in Spanish, French and German most often
and very few of the foreign language versions survive to this day. One of the
most famous that does survive is the Spanish language version of the 1931 Tod
Browning Dracula.
George Melford served as director, as was his station at
Universal pictures during that period. He directed Spanish language versions of
several films. According to IMDb, he neither spoke nor understood the language,
but Wikipedia tells me he got the job specifically because of his knowledge of
Spanish. Oh what a perfect example of how unreliable the Internet is. Ten years
before Drácula he directed Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik, which survives as
one of the classics of silent cinema.
