
Susana(1951)
The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.


Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
Esteban Márquez
Oliverio Grajales

Lilia Prado
Raquel

Luis Aceves Castañeda
Silvestre

Manuel Dondé
Eladio Gonzales

Roberto Cobo
Juan

Beatriz Ramos
Elisa

Manuel Noriega
Licenciado Figueroa

Roberto Meyer
Don Nemesio Álvarez y Villalbazo

Pedro Elviro
El cojo
Leonor Gómez
Doña Linda
Mexican Bus Ride is a comedy, drama film released in 1952 exploring themes of race against time, funeral, ranch, bus ride, lawyer, inheritance. Directed by Luis Buñuel, it stars Esteban Márquez, Lilia Prado, Luis Aceves Castañeda. Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
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