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RUNTIME
Did you know
Tight 72-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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The Stone Crucifix
1956 1h 12m ES
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6.2
MID
★6.2TMDB · 4
Drama
Synopsis
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A young prostitue woman arrives severely injured to a hospital and finds a chance to have a new life when the grandmother of another woman who has just died there mistakenly takes her as her grandaugther and takes her to live with her.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Rosa Elena Durgel
Fernando Casanova
Sara García
Domingo Soler
Raúl Meraz
Juan Orraca
Maruja Grifell
Aurora Cortés
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Carlos Toussaint
- Writers
- Mario García Camberos, Paulino Masip
- Languages
- Spanish
- Countries
- Mexico
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Fun facts 🍿
Cinephile deep dive
The take
Carlos Toussaint directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Mexico. Dialogue in Spanish.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 72-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 270 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Rosa Elena Durgel and Fernando Casanova and Sara García carry the top of the cast.
- 5IMDB entry: tt0179744 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 6Only 4 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 72 min · 1h 12m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- ES
Also by
Carlos Toussaint
Production companies
Who made it
- PR
Producciones Rosas Priego
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1956-06-15
