La perla (1947)

Directors

Emilio Fernández

Cast

Pedro Armendáriz, María Elena Marqués, Fernando Wagner, Gilberto Gonzálezas

The story

In a fishing village in La Paz, Mexico, pearl fisherman Kino and his wife Juana are in anguish because their infant son Coyotito was stung by a scorpion. The nearest doctor, a foreigner, refuses to treat him without adequate payment and he is taken instead to a curandero. The doctor does not want anything to do with the natives.

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