I remember watching 'O cangaceiro' (The bandit) when I was really young. I think I was taken to the movies by one of my aunts. I was really scared to watch all those bandits firing their guns at people indiscrimately...
Award 'Saci' for best director of 1953: Humberto Mauro for 'O canto da saudade' bestowed by daily 'O Estado de S.Paulo'.
11 January 1953 - Spanish production 'La Señora de Fatima' (Senhora de Fatima) released in 1951 in Europe reaches Brazilian shores almost 2 years later; Ines Orsini plays Lucia, one of the 3 poor Portuguese shepherds who purportedly saw the Lady on the bush; Maria Dulce plays Jacinta, the younger sister and Mario Berritúa plays young Manuel; Fernando Rey plays Duarte, the Portuguese government agent.
15 March 1953 - Paramount western released in the USA on 1st December 1951, 'Silver City' (Prata maldita) stars Yvonne De Carlo plays Candace Surrency the daughter of a silver miner's owner.
17 May 1953 - 'O caminhante solitario' (Rough riders of Durango) a 1951 western starring Allan 'Rocky' Lane; 1951's 'Aventuras do Capitão Fabian' (The adventures of Captain Fabian) with an ageing Errol Flynn, Agnes Moorehead & Vincent Price; Republic 1936 serial 'Undersea Kingdom' (Imperio Submarino) starring Ray 'Crash' Corrigan was terribly camp when that word wasn't used yet; as you can see by the photos below not even a gay director like John Waters could devise such a cheap miscelaneous of homo-eroticism.
17 May 1953 - another Vera Cruz super-production: 'Sinha Moça', directed by Tom Payne,starring Anselmo Duarte & Eliane Lage.
19 May 1953 - Vera Cruz does it twice in a row; it breaks all box-office records during its 1st week at Cine Bandeirantes & Cine Joia; 1953 was Vera Cruz best year ever.
18 January 1953 - three-quarters of a page of Sunday's 'Estadao' announces Lima Barreto's 'O cangaceiro' as the Brazilian film event of the year. This Vera Cruz production turned out to be one of the most successful Brazilian movies ever.
15 February 1953 - Vera Cruz's 'O cangaceiro' was picked up by the Brazilian government to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival where it would eventually win as the 'best adventure movie' of the competition. This was the year Brigitte Bardot was introduced to the world.
15 February 1953 - even though 1953 was just beginning it had already turned out to be one of the best years ever for Brazilian movies. Jose Carlos Burle's 'Carnaval Atlântida' is perhaps the best musical-comedy ever made in the country. It was the culmination of a process started some 15 years before where Atlantida & other companies produced light-comedy interspersed with musical numbers. Brazilian press high-brows were quick to disparage the industry and coined the word 'chanchada' that stuck even though the great public out there didn't give a shit to what the wise guys at the entertainment-sections - known as 'caderno-B' in Brazil - thought.
15 February 1953 - at Cine S.Bento it was business as usual: a 1949 western 'Rim of the Canyon' (Cidade fantasma) with Gene Autry; a 1951 cloak & sword flick 'Castelo invencivel' (Lorna Doone) with Barbara Hale & Richard Green; to complete the show a fairly recent Republic serial: 1951's 'Rastro do terror' (Don Daredevil strikes again) played by Ken Curtis in a similar fashion as 1944's 'Zorro's black whip'; Don Daredevil was created by Republic to replace Zorro whose rights had been purchased by Walt Disney in 1951.
15 February 1953 - as late as 1953, Hollywood operetta's darlings Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy - who were all the rage in the 1930s - were still being shown in the silver screen: 'Bitter sweet' (Divino tormento) released in 1940 was back at Cine Oasis 13 years later.
8 March 1953 - Argentine production of 1948 'El cantor del pueblo' (O cantor do povo) with Roberto Quiroga at Cine Cairo.
8 March 1953 - 1948's 'Wake of the Red Witch' (O rastro da bruxa vermelha) with John Wayne & Gail Russell; 1948's 'Daughter of the jungle' (Ticoora, Rainha das Selvas) with Lois Hall; plus a 1938 Columbia serial: 'The secret of the Tresure Island' (O segredo da Ilha do Tesouro) with Don Terry & Gwen Gaze; the original story was written by L.Ron Hubbard (future Scientology guru) for a sci-fi magazine; Jubbard wrote the screen-play for the 15 chapter serial.
Gail Russell & John Wayne in 'O rastro da Bruxa Vermelha'.
Lois Hall as Ticoora aka Tikura in Mexico.
setting up a scene for Columbia's 1938 serial 'The secret of the Treasure Island'.
Walter Miller in 'The secret of the Treasure Island'.
15 March 1953 - Watson Macedo's 'È fogo na roupa' in which Ankito is introduced as a new athlete-comedian.
15 March 1953 - At luxurious Copacabana Hotel's Plaza night-club Sylvio Caldas serenades Rio's upper middle class every night while Djalma Ferreira e seus Milionários do Ritmo accompany 'lady crooner' Helena de Lima who would get to the top of the entertainment world only in 1965.
15 March 1953 - Rio de Janeiro daily 'Correio da Manhã' full-page ad showing the Arches of Lapa in the background...
20 March 1953 - Actor Carlos Alberto tells 'Correio da Manhã' all about his biographical background, his half German heritage ... Carlos Alberto Scheff Soares was born in Arroio Grande-RS on 11 June 1925. His mother's sister Esther Scheff who died in 1932, when he was only a child, left a trove of poetry that were cherished by himself and his mother who also wrote poetry. After graduating at Ginasio Pedro II, in Arroio Grande, he traveled to the USA and enrolled at Michigan University where he became a doctor in literature.
At Michigan University he had a small part in the Canadian playwright Morris Panych's play 'The trespassers' and never left the stage. He got leading roles at Uni's Spanish-language Shakespeare's plays like 'Sueño de una noche de Agosto', Gregorio Martinez Sierra's 'Rosina es frágil', Vital Axe's 'Zaraguela', Alvarez Quintero brothers' 'Nuestra Natacha', Alejandro Casona's 'La sirena varada' and Jacinto Benavente's 'Los intereses creados'.
Carlos Alberto & Eva Wilma in 'O craque'.
12 April 1953 - directed by Jorge Ileu in 1952, 'Amei um bicheiro' starring Eliana Macedo is back in town just to help Eliana, her husband Renato Murce and Adelaide Chiozzo to draw audience to 'Constelação' a musical revue at Teatro Santana (see ad below).
'Uma pulga na balança' directed by Luciano Salce, starring Waldemar Wey & Gilda Nery plus Paulo Autran, John Buckup later aka John Herbert, Lola Brah, Vicente Leporace & Eva Wilma. The article about it on Estadao says: art direction by (Italian) Fabio Carpi, directed by (Italian) Luciano Salce, incidental music by (Italian) Enrico Simonetti and photography by (Italian) Ugo Lombardo. As one can see Italian film technicians fled Italy as Fascism was vanquished by the Allied Forces in 1945 and found employment in Argentina, Brazil and other South American countries. Most of these highly competent professionals - you could call them the Italian Diaspora - went back to Italy in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
'O caminhante solitario'.
This robot - with minor alterations - would be used again in Republic's 1940's 'Mysterious Dr. Satan'; read more about him at: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Satan's_Robot
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