

Thunder Over Mexico
Overview
As was common in Diaz's Mexico, a young hacienda worker finds his betrothed imprisoned and his life threatened by his master for confronting a hacienda guest for raping the girl. This film is the first of several attempts to make a feature-length motion picture out of the 200,000-plus feet of film shot by Sergei Eisenstein, on photographic expedition in Mexico during 1931-32 for Upton Sinclair and a cadre of private American producer-investors. Silent with music and English intertitles.
Year 1933
Studio The Mexican Picture Trust
Director Sergei Eisenstein
Crew Sergei Eisenstein (Director), Hunter S. Kimbrough (Line Producer), Mary Craig Sinclair (Executive Producer), Carl Himm (Editor), Grigori Aleksandrov (Co-Director), Upton Sinclair (Production Director)
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Language English, Español