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The Pearl (1947) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1947 · 86 mins · Spanish
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- Directed by
- Emilio Fernández
- Starring
- Alfonso Bedoya, Pedro Armendáriz, Margarito Luna, Columba Domínguez, Juan García, Beatriz Ramos
Steinbeck’s most talked‑about story. Poor fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are desperate after the town’s foreign doctor refuses to treat their son Coyotito, who has been stung by a scorpion. When Quino finds a magnificent pearl in the sea, Juana fears it will bring only misfortune and urges him to return it to the ocean.
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