All Is Possible in Granada (1954 film)

1954 film

8 March 1954 (1954-03-08)

Running time

90 minutesCountrySpainLanguageSpanish

All Is Possible in Granada (Spanish: Todo es posible en Granada) is a 1954 Spanish comedy film directed by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia and starring Merle Oberon, Francisco Rabal and Rafael Bardem.^[1] It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.^[2] In 1982 it was remade under the same title. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ramiro Gómez.

Plot

Following a prologue in the early 19th century concerning the finding of a hoard belonging to Boabdil, the fiction moves forward to 1950s Granada, involving the arrival of an American mining company to the city and the expropriation of land plots in the surroundings in order to extract uranium.^[3]

Cast

Merle Oberon as Margaret Faulson
Francisco Rabal as Fernando Ortega
Peter Damon as Robbie
Rafael Bardem as Mr. Taylor
Félix Dafauce as Mr. Olivier
Gustavo Re as Quincallero
José Isbert as Joaquín
Antonio Riquelme as Padre del limpiabotas
José G. Rey as Mr. Cummings
Antonio Fernández as Sereno
Luis Pérez de León as Anticuario
Joaquín Roa as Labrador 1º
José Alburquerque as Corregidor
Arturo Marín as El Jerezano
Casimiro Hurtado as Labrador 2º
Félix Briones
Pedro Giménez 'El Pili' as El Petaca
Josefina Fortea as Peggy
Maruja Coral as Mujer
Antonio (actor) as Limpiabotas
Rosita Segovia as Primera Bailarina

References

^ Mira p.249
^ "Festival de Cannes: All Is Possible in Granada". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 30 January 2009.
^ Sojo Gil, Kepa (2011). "La comedia rural española de los cincuenta como consecuente de Bienvenido Mr. Marshall" (PDF). Revista Latente. 7. San Cristóbal de La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna: 48. ISSN 1697-459X.