He, subsequently, directed teenager films as ¨Adiós Ciqueña Adios¨ (71), ¨El Niño Es Nuestro¨(73) that achieved big hit and some of them are censored as ¨Ya Soy Mujer¨(75), ¨Mi Primer Pecado¨ and ¨Me Hace Falta Un Bigote¨. Summers, then, made two typical Spanish comedies with Alfredo Landa : ¨No Somos De Piedra¨(67) and ¨Porque Te Engaña Tu Marido¨ (68). He had a big flop titled ¨Juguetes Rotos¨ (66). His successful first film ¨Del Rosa Al Amarillo¨ was followed by personal works wasted by excessive jokes as ¨El Juego De La Oca¨(65). He was a comedian actor and an acceptable filmmaker. Manuel was a comic books humorist who publicized in ¨Pueblo¨ diary and on magazines as ¨Hermano Lobo¨and ¨La Codorniz¨. And, of course, the famous Bolero, and film leitmotif : ¨Están Clavadas Dos Cruces En El Monte Del Olvido.¨ The motion picture was well directed by Manuel Summers. Adding Andalucian, Folkoric music, popular songs and modern music as twists. And atmospheric musical score full of ordinary sounds of the sixties by Antonio Pérez Olea. This film packs a colorful and evocative cinematography by Francisco Fraile. ¨La Niña De Luto¨ or "The Girl in Mourning" has an interesting as well as amusing script by Tico Medina, Manuel-Francisco Summers and Pilar Miro, subsequently to be become a famous filmmaker. It belongs to a Spanish period ¨New Spanish cinema¨ of the 60s directed by students of the ¨Official Academy of Cine¨ or Escuela Oficial De Cinematografia. In fact, the grandfathers roles are incarnated by the same actors who played in ¨Del Rosa Al Amarillo¨, but while the grandfather Jose Cerrudo gives a brief acting, the grandmother Lina Onesti only appears on a photo. But a third episode dealt with a young romance, but it was adapted on another movie, this ¨La Niña De Luto¨ that pays tribute to previous picture. This is the following to Summers's first film : ¨Del Rosa Al Amarillo¨ (63) that was formed by two episodes about love stories between teenagers and elderly people. In the flick there is especially comedy, humor, satire and social critical which tended not to be very well received by the censor. As all the villagers are repressed characters, coerced by social conventionalism, gossip and hypocrisy. This is not the typical comedy by that time, here there is a brief social denounce about the repression and excessive religion during Franco dictatorship. Good film that was beset by difficulties with the censors caused by a relentless critical to Catholic religion, sour rural conventionality and extreme religious practices. Black comedy with plenty of humor, light drama, social habits and a lot of songs. Alfredo engages marriage to Rocio, but then, Rocio's grandfather dies and Rocio once again has to bear a stiff mourning. Soon after, they are going to dance at the town ball. Then, they go walking to the field and go to the cinema to see a Peplum film. After that, he meets her boyfriend Rafael Castroviejo (Alfredo Landa). In a little town of Huelva province lives the young Rocio Vazquez Romero (Maria José Alfonso) who holds a six-month strict mourning for death her grandmother.
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