Fever Mounts at El Pao
5.9 / Rating
1959
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
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La fièvre monte à El Pao is a 1959 film by director Luis Buñuel. Gérard Philipe died four months after the filming. This was his last film.
