The Living Head
Cast & Crew
Chano Urueta
Mauricio Garcés
Ana Luisa Peluffo
Germán Robles
Guillermo Cramer
Abel Salazar
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Synopsis
Acatl, chief of the Aztecs, is murdered and his head is cut off. At the same time, Xochiquetzal, his betrothed, is buried alive, along with the Grand Priest. Centuries later, archeologist Herman Mueller and his assistants Tony and Charley unearth the tomb. The mummy of Xochiquetzal disintegrates, but the heads of Acatl and the priest remain preserved. Herman takes his discoveries home to his daughter Martha, to whom he gives an Aztec ring known by legend as a ring of death. Soon afterwards, Charley becomes the victim of a human sacrifice, and the heads of Acatl and the priest return to life to place Martha under a spell. Although Martha is able to resist Acatl's orders to murder her father, her fiancé, Robert, falls under a similar spell. Eventually, however, the curse of the living head is broken.
Director
Chano Urueta
Crew
Gustavo César Carrión
Federico Curiel
Jesús González Gancy
K. Gordon Murray
José Ortiz Ramos
Alfredo Rosas Priego
Abel Salazar
Roberto Silva
Jorge Stahl Jr.
Adolfo Torres Portillo
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Produced in Mexico in 1961 as La cabeza viviente. Though a Mexican source credits Stahl as photographer, a U. S. source indicates that Ramos receives screen credit.
