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Synopsis: Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The Consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): John Huston
Production: Criterion Collection
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
R
Year:
1984
112 min
394 Views


All of those bloody corpses,

each holding a first-class ticket.

[ Krausberg ]

Absolutely.

One Day of the Dead won't be enough.

Month. Decade.

Age of the Dead, more like it!

The whole world

will learn to laugh...

at the sight of stinking cadavers.

Oh, ha, ha.

Bloody ha, ha, ha!

Oh, good God.

Express trains will be booked up

years in advance.

Corpses hand in hand

with bloody first-class ticket holders...

standing in lines for miles

waiting for transport.

Aha. Yes.

- Ladies and gentlemen of the Red Cross...

- [ Stops ]

you have your bloody work

cut out for you.

- Arranging storage of, uh -

- Amigo. Senor.

Storage for this bumper crop

of dancing carcasses.

- Senor Geoffrey.

- Build special depots.

- Uh, stack them in layers.

- [ Resumes ]

Or squeeze-squeeze them in upright.

No, better still -cut them in pieces.

Chop them up

and stash them in sacks.

- And paint red crosses on them.

- Come, senor.

Come, amigo.

Throw away your mind.

It is sad to spend your life

in such continual tragedies.

Ah, it's not in the times, of course,

but in the heart.

No sepuede vivirsin amar.

Uh. No sepuede vivirsin amar.

Hmm. I woke up one morning,

she was gone.

Nothing. Just a bloody note.

I need her.

Come. I know what you must do.

Come with me.

It is not far. Come.

[ Guests Murmuring, Chattering ]

[ Gasping, Chattering ]

[ Footsteps Echoing ]

[ Gate Clatters ]

She is the Virgin of Soledad.

La santapatrona...

for those who have nobody with...

and those what are lost...

and mariners at sea.

You must ask...

for your esposa again.

Ask her.

[ Gasping ]

I can't.

It's like asking my fairy godmother

for three wishes.

You must forgive my companero.

He's too borracho to pray.

No sepuede vivirsin amar, Madrecita.

And he -

He - He has lost his esposa.

And he ask for your help.

Please.

Pray to the Virgin.

I'm dying without you.

Come back to me, Yvonne.

[ Geoffrey]

Are you listening, Fernando?

Si es absolutamente necesario.

Pay close attention.

A lesson. A parable.

I'm telling you about responsibility,

Fernando.

Si es absolutamente necesario.

This ship was a thoroughgoing lie...

and I was the commanding officer.

This ship-the S.S. Samaritan...

it was called...

looked from the outside

like a harmless, fat old lady-

a laden freighter

lying heavy on the sea.

Are you listening, Fernando?

[ Horn Honking ]

Chamacos.

[ Geoffrey, Indistinct ]

...sink anything the Germans

might send our way!

It was 1917, spring.

We sight a periscope sighting us.

[ Geoffrey Continues, Indistinct ]

Are you listening, Fernando?

They prepare to board us.

Then the big surprise.

Are you listening, Fernando?

Oh.

We drop our disguise.

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