¡Aquí hay petróleo!

 

¡Aquí hay petróleo! – Spanish title

[There's oil here! – English translated title]

 

A 1956 Spanish film production [Asturias Films, Chamartín Producciones y Distribuciones (Madrid)]

Producer: Jose Luis de Navasquez 

Director: R.J. Salvia (Rafael Julián Salvia Jiménez)

Story: Pedro Chamorro

Screenplay: Pedro Masó, Rafael J. Salvia (Rafael Julián Salvia Jiménez)

Cinematography: Eloy Mella [black & white]

Music: Salvador Ruiz de Luna

Running time: 85 minutes

 

Cast:

Zoilo Mendoza de Montesinos - Manolo Morán

José - José Luis Ozores

Rosalía - María Rivas

Don Fausto - Félix Fernández

Timoteo Cano - Antonio Riquelme

Virginia Caulfield - Rosita Palomar

Jane Smith - Mónica Pastrana

John ‘Texas’ Murphy - Mario Berriatua

Soledad - Josefina Serratosa

Baldomero - Xan das Bolas

Felipe Arévalo - Ángel Ter

Charles D. Wilkins Townsend - Ramón Elias

Alcalde - Mariano Ozores

Timoteo’s woman - Pilar Gómez Ferrer

Saturnino - José Sepúlveda

With: Miguel Gómez, Pedro Valdivielso, Mario Moreno, Miguel Angel Fernández, Ana Maria Alberta, Pedro Fenollar,

Castilviejo is a Castilian town that has been dying of thirst for years and years. It has a large swamp very close by, but it is as much as having nothing, since its waters do not reach there. Suddenly, some Americans who claim to be experts in oil prospecting fall through those lands claiming that there is oil. These plots are owned by Don Zoilo Mendoza who, faced with the evidence of the treasure that encloses its subsoil, puts himself in the hands of Don Fausto, one of the rich people of the town, to decide. Don Fausto's verdict is this: nothing for the Americans, because what is in Zoilo's lands is worth more than oil, it is water for Castilviejo.