The Last Torch Song

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The Last Torch Song
File:El último cuplé - 1957 film poster - Spain.jpg
Spanish theatrical release poster
Directed by Juan de Orduña
Produced by Juan de Orduña
Written by
  • Jesús María de Arozamena
  • Antonio Mas Guindal
Starring
Music by Juan Solano
Cinematography José F. Aguayo
Edited by Antonio Cánovas
Production
company
Producciones Orduña Films
Distributed by Cifesa
Release dates
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  • 6 May 1957 (1957-05-06)
Running time
 110 minutes
Country Spain
Language Spanish

The Last Torch Song, better known under its Spanish title El último cuplé, is a 1957 Spanish jukebox musical film directed by Juan de Orduña and starring Sara Montiel, Armando Calvo and Enrique Vera.[1]

It was released in Spain on 6 May 1957. It was immensely popular domestically and it had a wide international release making it the worldwide highest-grossing Spanish-language film made up to that point. The film's soundtrack album had also a wide international release.

Cast

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Production

The filming took place in Barcelona between November 1956 and January 1957. Montiel accepted to star in the film as a deference to its director Juan de Orduña and during a vacation in Spain in between her Hollywood filmings Serenade and Run of the Arrow.[2] The film was filmed with a very low budget. Initially, the songs in the film were going to be sung by a professional singer who would dub Montiel, but due to the low budget, she eventually sang the songs herself.[3] Orduña had to sell the distribution rights to Cifesa to finance the completion of the filming.[4]

Release

The Last Torch Song opened on 6 May 1957 in Spain. The film was running at the 1,400-seat Rialto Theatre for forty-seven weeks,[5] making it the highest grossing film in Madrid in the 1950s.[lower-alpha 1] The film was there for so long that, as a result of the rain and the wind, the large billboard announcing the film had to be replaced by another, something unusual in the history of film exhibition in Spain.[8] The film soundtrack album also became a hit.

The film had a wide international release with the dialogues dubbed or subtitled into other languages in non-Spanish speaking countries, while the songs kept in their original version. It was the worldwide highest-grossing Spanish-language film made up to that point, only surpassed in the 1950s–60s by her next film The Violet Seller, and catapulting Montiel's career as an actress and a singer.[9]

Notes

  1. ↑ Back then in Spain, boxoffice grosses were a secret kept by exhibitors for tax reasons. The only guide to estimate them was the length of the first-run and the capacity of the venue.[6] It was not made mandatory to officially communicate the number of tickets sold until 1 January 1965.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Labanyi & Pavlović p.236
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Bibliography

  • Labanyi, Jo & Pavlović, Tatjana. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

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