Wrestling melodrama: crooked gamblers, boy/girl stuff and a priest who needs money to run his orphanage.
Production
Gloriously threadbare wrestling sequences that defy physics
Acting
Performances swinging between telenovela and actual church service
Director
Fernando Fernández
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lucha libre films dominated Mexican cinema in the 1960s-70s, with real masked wrestlers becoming unlikely movie stars. This one's the weird religious cousin of that phenomenon.
Director Fernando Fernández was primarily a singer-composer; this was one of his rare directorial efforts, possibly explaining the film's... unique energy.
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