ABSTRACT

In the mid-fifties, Hollywood and the French film industry were both on the look out for a trouble-free location for shooting their films - no prob­ lems with unions, in the case of the former, no problems with ex-colonies, in the case of the latter. In a long-forgotten comer of Spain, abandoned since the Civil War (Caparros, Fernandez and Sole, 1997), they came across an Andalucian province (Figure 21.1), immersed in great poverty, where the people’s only hope was to emigrate from the accursed desert lands.