Fever Mounts at El Pao
After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.
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Cast
25 people
María Félix
Inés Rojas
Known for
Enamorada
Tizoc
Gérard Philipe
Ramón Vázquez
Known for
Fan-Fan the Tulip
The Lovers of Montparnasse
Jean Servais
Alejandro Gual
Known for
Rififi
That Man from Rio
Miguel Ángel Ferriz Sr.
le Gouverneur Mariano Vargas
Known for
El Siete Machos
Raúl Dantés
Lieutenant García
Also in
Rapine
Prostitution
Domingo Soler
Professeur Juan Cárdenas
Known for
Up and Down
La Vida No Vale Nada
Víctor Junco
Indarte
Also in
The Other
Doña Diabla
Roberto Cañedo
Le colonel Olivares
Known for
The Bat Woman
El Arracadas
Andrés Soler
Le président Carlos Barreiro
Known for
One Day with the Devil
The Black Sheep
Luis Aceves Castañeda
López - le secrétaire de Gual
Known for
Simon of the Desert
Nazarín
Armando Acosta
Manuel
Known for
The Curse of the Crying Woman
Blacker Than the Night
Edmundo Barbero
Also in
15 Thousand Drawings
Five lives and one destiny
Luis Buñuel Director · Luis Alcoriza Writer Charles Dorat Writer
First release December 5, 1959 · Produced in France, Mexico · Languages French, Spanish
Production
Le Groupe des Quatre
Production
Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique
Production
Filmex
Production
France · Mexico
Produced in
Languages
Original title
La fièvre monte à El Pao
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French · Spanish
Release dates
Belgium · December 5, 1959
Theatrical
France · December 5, 1959
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
October 11, 1994 · Physical · VHS
December 4, 2013 · Physical · DVD & Blu-Ray
August 17, 2020 · Digital · VOD
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