Criminal Brigade (Spanish:Brigada criminal) is a 1950 Spanish crime film directed by Ignacio F. Iquino and starring José Suárez, Soledad Lence and Alfonso Estela. It is a film noir with extensive location shooting in Madrid.Bentley p.109
Plot Fernando Olmos, a recently graduated police officer, witnesses a bank robbery, although he cannot do anything to prevent it. His first job is to infiltrate a garage as a car washer to catch a thief, unaware that the owner of the establishment is also the head of the robbery gang.
The film ends with a shocking sequence: the fight against the robbers in an under-construction building, the Francisco Franco Health Residence, now the Valle de Hebrón Hospital in Barcelona.
Cast José Suarez as Fernando Olmos Sánchez Soledad Lence as Celia Albéniz Alfonso Estela as Óscar Román Manuel Gas as Inspector Basilio Lérida Barta Barri as Mario Pedro Córdoba de Córdoba Fernando Vallejo Antonio S. Amaya as Eduardo José Manuel Pinillos Tomy Castels Carlos Ronda as Correo Matías Ferret José Soler Maruchi Fresno Isabel de Castro Carlos Otero Mercedes Mozart
References
Bibliography Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer 2008.
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