Editing Verbena Tragica

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{{Infobox film
| name           = Verbena Tragica
| image          = Verbena Tragica (1939).webm{{!}}center{{!}}thumbtime=20
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| director       = [[Charles Lamont]]
| producer       = Jaime del Amo
| writer         = [[Jean Bart (writer)|Jean Bart]]<br/>Miguel de Zárraga
| starring       = [[Fernando Soler]]<br/>[[Luana Alcañiz]]<br/>[[Juan Torena]]<br/>Pilar Arcos<br/>[[Cecilia Callejo]]<br/>[[Romualdo Tirado]]<br/>[[Carlos Villarías]]<br/>Danton Ferrero
| music          = 
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| editing        = 
| distributor    = 
| released       = {{Film date|1939}}
| runtime        = 75 min.
| language       = [[Spanish language|Spanish]]
| budget         = 
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'''''Verbena Trágica''''' ('''''Tragic Festival''''', also known as '''''Block Party''''') is a 1939 film directed by [[Charles Lamont]]. The film was made in 1938 in the [[Spanish language]] only, unusual for the time but most likely due to the film's themes of adultery and revenge.<ref>{{YouTube|Y6NiQfa6E18 |Verbena Tragica}}</ref>

In 1996, the film was deemed to be  "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the [[United States]] [[Library of Congress]] and selected for the [[National Film Registry]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/static/national-film-preservation-board/documents/verbena_tragica.pdf|title=Verbena trajica|last=Mora|first=Carl|website=Library of Congress|access-date=25 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|website=Library of Congress|access-date=2020-05-14}}</ref>

==Plot==
On the eve of Columbus Day festivities in New York, the boxer Mateo Vargas is released early from a jail term he served after he struck a police officer. He returns home for a surprise reunion with his family, but his wife Blanca faints. Mateo learns from her doctor that she is pregnant. Mateo is shocked, and knows that he cannot be the father. His trainer wants him to return to the boxing ring, but Mateo is too preoccupied with Blanca's infidelity. While he was in jail, Blanca had been seeing Claudio, the fiancé of Mateo's sister Lola. When Lola tells her suspicions to her mother, she slaps Lola. Vargas confronts Blanca about her pregnancy, but she refuses to name the father. Mateo becomes obsessed with finding his wife's lover.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{AFI film|1209|Verbena trágica}}
*{{IMDb title|id=0032093|title=Verbena Tragica}}
*''Verbena trágic''an essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 {{ISBN|0826429777}}, pages 284-286 [https://books.google.com/books/about/America_s_Film_Legacy.html?id=deq3xI8OmCkC]

{{Charles Lamont}}

[[Category:1939 films]]
[[Category:United States National Film Registry films]]
[[Category:American black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Spanish-language American films]]
[[Category:1939 drama films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Charles Lamont]]
[[Category:American drama films]]
[[Category:1930s Spanish-language films]]
[[Category:1930s American films]]


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