The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (film)

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The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks
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Film poster
Directed by Edgar Neville
Produced by Germán López Prieto
España Films
Written by Emilio Carrere (novel)
Starring Antonio Casal
Isabel de Pomés
Music by José Ruiz de Azagra
Cinematography Henri Barreyre (as Enrique Barreyre)
Andrés Pérez Cubero
Edited by Sara Ontañón
Distributed by España Films
Release dates
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  • 23 November 1944 (1944-11-23)
Running time
 85 minutes
Country Spain
Language Spanish

The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (Spanish:La Torre de los Siete Jorobados) is a 1944 Spanish mystery film directed by Edgar Neville.[1] It is based on a novel of the same title by Emilio Carrere.

Plot

Basilio is a superstitious young man who courts the singer La Bella Medusa. Looking for money to invite her and her mother, he gambles. He wins a small fortune following the advice of Robinsón de Mantua. He is revealed to be the ghost of an archeologist dead after an apparent suicide. Basilio is attracted to Inés, who happens to be the niece of Professor Mantua. She refuses the verdict of suicide and asks for his help. Basilio is helped by his friend, a police agent. They discover a passage from Mantua's home into an underground city under Habsburg Madrid, founded by Jews escaping their 1492 expulsion and now inhabited by money-forging hunchbacks led by Dr. Sabatino. The hunchbacks hold Inés and an archeologist friend of Mantua and try to force Basilio into staying. Basilio manages to escape and returns with the police to find Inés at her home, who barely remembers what happened. The police chief wants to arrest Basilio, but Inés intercedes. Meanwhile, Sabatino has blown down the tunnels.

Themes

The film features antisemitic tropes as core element of the plot, namely the appearance of a subterranean city dwelled by nefarious hunchbacks, founded by Jews back in 1492.[2] The idea that the hunchbacks are the descendants of the Jews is not explicit, though.[3]

Cast

References

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Bibliography

  • Mira, Alberto. The A to Z of Spanish Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.

External links

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  1. ↑ Mira p.225
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