Alberto Peyrou

Dramatizations of four cases "drawn from Buenos Aires police files".

This relentlessly realistic Argentine production was released in the U.S. as The Marked Man. The title character is a poverty-stricken janitor who suddenly wins an enormous sum in the National lottery. Spending money before he actually collects it, the janitor is appalled to discover that his wife has inadvertently sold the winning ticket to a door-to-door peddler. The ticket was hidden in the band of an old straw hat, which passes through several hands as the janitor frantically searches for the precious headgear. What might have been handled as a farce by another director is transformed into a stark, utterly credible urban tragedy by director Francis Laurie.

A bank employee uses a loophole in Argentine law to concoct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement after serving six years in prison…

The pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján causes the meeting of people of different classes.

Believing that he is about to die, a man sells his skeleton for science.

Nightclub entertainer discovers he closely resembles a boxing champion and decides to impersonate him for profit.

A rich man protects an orphan and her donkey but she must be sacrificed as a result of an accident

A rich and orphaned heiress tries to establish a school in the Southern Lakes, but her uncle sets many traps for her.