El Esqueleto de la señora Morales (English:
The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales) is a
1960The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I...
SpanishA list of films produced in Spain in 1960.-1960:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...
languageSpanish or Castilian is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the Iberian peninsula...
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comedy filmComedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending . One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies...
based on
Arthur MachenArthur Machen was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction...
's 1927 short story "The Islington Mystery". It is regarded by critics as one of the ten best Mexican films of all time.
Pablo Morales (Arturo de Cordova) is a cheerful taxidermist, who lives with his bitter obsessive wife Gloria (Amparo Rivelles), who is extremely religious.
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El Esqueleto de la señora Morales (English:
The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales) is a
1960The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I...
SpanishA list of films produced in Spain in 1960.-1960:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...
languageSpanish or Castilian is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the Iberian peninsula...
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comedy filmComedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. Also, films in this style typically have a happy ending . One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies...
based on
Arthur MachenArthur Machen was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction...
's 1927 short story "The Islington Mystery". It is regarded by critics as one of the ten best Mexican films of all time.
Plot
Pablo Morales (Arturo de Cordova) is a cheerful taxidermist, who lives with his bitter obsessive wife Gloria (Amparo Rivelles), who is extremely religious. After Gloria takes money Pablo was saving and gives it to the church and pretends he was beating her he takes his revenge by poisoning her. He then dissects Gloria's body and places her skeleton in the front window of his shop. The police and local priest become suspicious and he is put on trial but he manages to escape justice.
Influences
Arthur MachenArthur Machen was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction...
's original 1927 short story "The Islington Mystery" was based on the case of the famous murderer
Hawley Harvey CrippenHawley Harvey Crippen , usually known as Dr. Crippen, was an American physician hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, England, on 23 November 1910, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. He has gone down in history as the first criminal to be captured with the aid of wireless...
. Screenwriter
Luis AlcorizaLuis Alcoriza de la Vega was a respected Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor.-Films as Writer :...
was influenced by his association with
Luis BuñuelLuis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker who acquired Mexican citizenship and worked in Mexico, France, and also in his native Spain and the United States...
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Reception
This film is ranked 19 in the list of the 100 best films of Mexican cinema, in the opinion of 25 film critics and experts on Mexico, published by the magazine Somos in July 1994.