The best Julio Alemán’s crime movies

Julio Álemán stars in this fast-paced, often violent tragedy based on a true incident involving three young delinquents. The tale is directed byLuis Alcoriza, well known as a screenwriter for Luis Buñuel in films like Los Olvidados. Everything begins when two youths with nothing constructive on their minds decide to form a gang and go about terrorizing young couples. During one such episode, the female victim becomes attracted to the leader of the gang and so an odd, on-the-edge relationship begins. Now the group of three steal a car in Mexico City and take it joy-riding to Guadalajara where a suspicious used car salesman calls the police after they try to sell him the car. Desperate and with nowhere to turn, the trio have every reason to be frightened because the police have orders to shoot them on sight.

After the death of her boyfriend, Lina Torres starts a fashion business to get ahead. When she meets Julio, the fabric seller, she lets herself be seduced by him and becomes his lover. Eventually Lina liquidates the business and gives Julio the money to expand his business. In this way, she thinks, they will live better after they are married. When the wedding day arrives, Julio does not appear. Given the steps he has taken, she is in a very precarious situation. Later, Lina runs into Julio, who gives her all kinds of excuses and offers to pay the debt he owes her. The check has no funds. Tired of so much deception, she ends up committing an impulsive act that makes Lina face a jury, where she will be defended by the attorney Antonio Aguirre.

Three greedy relatives scheme for an inheritance and frame the good guy for the murder of the maker of the will.