Dir: Roberto Rodríguez; Scr: Roberto Rodríguez, Alfredo Ruanova; Story: Alfredo Ruanova; Photo: José Ortiz Ramos

CAST: Julissa (Carmen), Enrique Lizalde (Julio Jr.), Elizabeth Campbell (Liz), José Gálvez (Julio Sr.), Rita Macedo (Amparo), Titina Romay, Regina Torné

NOTES: Elizabeth Campbell was cast as a gringa gold-digger in this romantic drama with music. The picture begins in the 1940s: Julio's mother breaks up his engagement with Carmela without her son's knowledge. Time passes. By 1965, Julio Sr. is a rich widower, whose son Julio Jr. is a perennial student at the Politécnico in Mexico City, and something of a wastrel and playboy. On a trip to Acapulco, Julio Jr. meets Liz, an attractive gringa. Their relationship continues when he goes back to the capital.

However, Julio Jr. also meets Carmen, the daughter of the now-deceased Carmela. When Julio Sr. learns of this romantic relationship, he moves to break it up, in anger against Carmen's mother. Carmen, disillusioned, decides to become a nun. Meanwhile, Julio Jr., in response to his father's cruel business methods, renounces his inheritance and sets out to make his own way in the world. This costs him his romance with Liz, who leaves him when she learns he isn't rich anymore.

Carmen, a novice nun, forms a chorus from the children at an orphanage, and they go on TV to raise money. Julio Jr. sees her and decides to try to win back her love. However, on the way to meet her, he is struck by a car and hospitalized. Julio Sr. learns from Amparo, sister of the late Carmela, that his mother was the one who broke up his engagement (he thought Carmela had dumped him). Julio Sr. and Julio Jr. manage to reach the convent in time to prevent Carmen from taking her final vows. As the film ends, the young couple reconciles.

To date, I have not had a chance to see this movie, so I cannot make a value judgement about it or Elizabeth Campbell's performance.

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