Luis Buñuel

Gran Casino Luis Buñuel

Mexican musical melodrama from Spanish director Luis Bunuel, starring popular Latin singing stars of the day, Jorge Negrete and Libertad Lamarque. Following the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo (Negrete) takes over the running of the business. Soon after, the missing owner's sister Mercedes (Lamarque) arrives from Argentina, and - convinced that Gerardo killed her brother to secure the wells for himself - assumes a false identity and gets a job as a singer in the casino where her brother disappeared in an attempt to find out what happened to him.