Del infierno al cielo
Cast & Crew
Richard Harlan
Juan Torena
María Alba
Carlos Villarías
Ralph Navarro
Carmen Rodríguez
Film Details
Synopsis
[The following plot summary is based on the English-language version of this film, The Man Who Came Back (1931), character names refer to that version.] New York millionaire Thomas Randolph becomes furious when he learns that his spoiled, wastrel son Stephen has been involved in yet another highly publicized scandal. This incident, coupled with Stephen's reckless financial handlings, prompts Thomas to cut off his support and force him to work for a living. Stephen rejects his father's decision that he work at his San Francisco shipping company, and instead falls in love with Angie, a San Francisco cabaret singer who promises to follow him wherever he goes. When Stephen threatens to soil the Randolph name and never return if his father cuts him off, Thomas decides to teach his son a lesson by having him shanghaied and taken to China. Four months later, Stephen runs into Angie in a Chinese drug den, known in Shanghai as "Slackjaw Palace," where Angie pretends to be high on dope, unable to recognize him. Stephen tries to strangle Angie in order to get her to stop her drug habit, and they soon resume their romance. One year later, Stephen and Angie, living in Hawaii, are visited by Captain Trevelyan, a mutual acquaintance who appears to have developed a fondness for Angie. In the hope that Angie will leave Stephen when she learns that her sweetheart has returned to his alcoholic ways, Trevelyan tells her that he has seen Stephen on a drinking jag. While Angie feigns drug addiction to test Stephen's resolve to love her, Stephen's aunt arrives with news that his father is ill, forcing him to choose between staying by Angie's side, and going to his father's sickbed. After some deliberation, Stephen decides to stay with Angie. When Thomas decides that Stephen has learned his lesson, he summons him back to New York with a promise that he will take him into his firm, but only on the condition that he and Angie remain apart. Later, Thomas informs his son that he has had Angie watched while he was away, and tells him that she has left Honolulu with Captain Trevelyan. At that moment, Trevelyan and Angie enter and Thomas explains that he was satisfied with Angie's conduct under Trevelyan's surveillence, so he brought her over to be with Stephen.
Director
Richard Harlan
Cast
Juan Torena
María Alba
Carlos Villarías
Ralph Navarro
Carmen Rodríguez
Lucio Villegas
Juan Aristi Eulate
Ramón Peón
Virginia Ruiz
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
The novel on which this film is based was first published as a short story in American Mercury in November 1912. The onscreen credits listed for this Spanish-language version of The Man Who Came Back (1931) were found in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department at the UCLA Arts-Special Collections Library. The Spanish version was shown in Barcelona, Spain under the title Camino del infierno and in Santiago, Chile under the title Regeneración. Another film based on the same source was the 1924 Fox film The Man Who Came Back, directed by Emmett Flynn and starring George O'Brien and Dorothy MacKaill. For information on that version and the 1931 English-language version, which was directed by Raoul Walsh and starred Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, please see entries for The Man Who Came Back.
