Jaime Devesa
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops. Alternate language version of MIDNIGHT PHANTOM (1935)
In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.
Like almost all of Edmo Cominetti's films, in this, his first film as a director, he presents an important social situation plagued by conflicts that arise in a town. It was presented as a Chaco Film production. This film was shot in partnership with Edmo's brother, Sóstenes Luis Cominetti, being a kind of rehearsal.
