Los tres huastecos

Three brothers are born and their father is killed. The three are raised apart. Years later all three are grown. Víctor has become a priest; he is respected in the town and quarrels with nobody. Juan de Dios is a soldier; disciplined and hard. Rodolfo is an outlaw; quick with a gun and living outside the law. All three come back to the same region. Their father's killer is still there and runs the district. All three have the same face, and the confusion produces both comedy and danger. There is also a small girl who will not leave Rodolfo's side. Ismael Rodríguez directs. Pedro Infante plays all three brothers; Blanca Estela Pavón, María Eugenia Llamas and Fernando Soto are in the cast. It is a Mexican production, made in 1948. Pedro Infante plays three parts in the same film and the technique was ambitious for its time; the three appear in the same frame. The film was made in the golden age of Mexican cinema and became one of Infante's most watched works. María Eugenia Llamas, who plays the little girl, became known through it and was called by the same nickname for years. The narrative joins three shapes: comedy, western and melodrama. The songs are inside it and Infante sings differently for each character. The matter it treats is three roads out of the same blood; the film does not build it as a moral lesson. The ending brings the three together and the account is settled. Its limit is age; the narrative is conventional, the register shifts, and the ending easy. Who it is for: viewers who like the golden age of Mexican cinema and Pedro Infante's films. Who it is not for: it is old, conventional, and the ending where expected.