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Saturday, September 19, 2020

entry arrow11:07 PM | Rudy Concepcion and the Charm of Our Surviving Pre-War Films



Currently watching all five of the only pre-War Filipino films that survived the ravages of World War II, all of them available online. Even with the unsubtle theatrical acting and ornate line-readings by some of the leads, these films are a hoot with a charm of their own [I love the music!] -- and provide a glimpse into a lost world. I'm definitely crushing on Rudy Concepcion who starred in two of those surviving films, both directed by Octavio Silos: Tunay na Ina (a 1939 melodrama with the most questionable moral choices done in the name of "hiya") and Pakiusap (a 1940 love story). He died in 1940 from peptic ulcer. His frequent co-star Rosario Moreno, on the other hand, died in 1945 when a Japanese bomb hit her Sampaloc house during the Battle of Manila in World War II.

You can watch these pre-War films at these links:

Zamboanga (Eduardo de Castro, 1937)
Tunay na Ina (Octavio Silos, 1939)
Giliw Ko (Carlos Vander Tolosa, 1939)
Pakiusap (Octavio Silos, 1940)
Ibong Adarna (Vicente Salumbides, 1941)

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