Pasaporte a la muerte

This presentable Mexican production line drama is supposed to have been drawn from a real life incident.

On a visit to L.A, this was the pick of the Mexican films I saw in the city's Spanish speaking movie houses then facing the crisis of having sub-titled US product edge out original language films. It was better than it's lurid spooky figure poster suggested.

A group of illegals are being smuggled into the US in a rail freight car but this is is shunted onto an isolated siding, leaving them to asphyxiate under the sun. The group in the car, huddling round the hole blasted in the floor by the macho man's pistol are inter cut with attempts to trace the car, contributing to the suspense. The railway material is better than the framing story. The film making and playing are adequate though not all that much better than the kung fu films and knock-abouts with fat comics slapping the bottoms of naked women of the other Mexican movies I watched. It would have been interesting to see more of the makers' work.