The King is the Best Mayor
El mejor alcalde, el Rey
Release: 1974-04-29
·★ 2.0
Drama
The action occurs in early 12th century Galicia during the reign of Alfonso VII. Sancho de Roelas, a nobleman who has fallen on hard times, announces to his lord Tello de Neira his intention to marry Elvira de Olite, also of impoverished noble lineage. Don Tello offers to be best man at the wedding but on seeing Elvira falls in love with her beauty and kidnaps her. She refuses to have sex with him and Sancho travels to Leon to get Alfonso's help. Alfonso finally comes to Tello's manor-house incognito and – after revealing his identity and finding out that Tello has raped Elvira – forces him to marry Elvira. He then executes Tello, restoring Elvira's honour and endowing her with half Tello's estate.
Production Countries
Spain
Production Companies
C. C. Champion
Coral Producciones Cinematográficas
Midega Film
Cast
Pedro Valentín
as Pelayo
José Nieto
as Nuño
Tomás Blanco
as Alcalde
Ray Lovelock
as Sancho (as Raymond Lovelock)
Andrés Mejuto
as El Rey
Antonio Casas
as Celio
Luis Induni
as D. Enrique
Fernando Sánchez Polack
as Yuntero (as F. Sánchez Polack)
Analía Gadé
as Felicia
Simonetta Stefanelli
as Elvira
Fernando Sancho
as Conde
