Ilocana Maiden
1954 film
Ilocana Maiden (Filipino: Dalagang Ilocana) is a 1954 Filipino romantic comedy film directed by Olive La Torre from a screenplay by Luciano B. Carlos, Conrado Conde, and Willie P. Orfinada, based on a story written by T. D. Agcaoili, who also wrote additional lyrics with Conde. It stars Gloria Romero, Ric Rodrigo, and Rudy Francisco, while the supporting cast includes Dolphy and Rebecca del Rio.
A black and white film produced and released by Sampaguita Pictures, a radio adaptation of the film was serialized over DZRH Sampaguita Radio Program and also, it launched the career of Tita de Villa. It was theatrically released on July 4, 1954.
In 2021, the film was digitally restored and remastered by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP).
Background
Olive La Torre directed Gloria Romero as a country girl who rolls tobacco leaves into cigars for a living. Romero is a comedian, combining as she does a nose with eyes that slant. Dolphy has a role as a comic sidekick. The film, set in the lands of the Ilocos region, is also a advertisement on smoking, with seemingly everyone onscreen from the haciendero to the tobacco roller lighting up cigars made from uncut tobacco leaf; one character actually suffers asthma attacks if he can't get nicotine, from the rolled cigars that only Romero knows how to make.
Cast
Gloria Romero — Biday
Ric Rodrigo
Dolphy — Kulas
Tita de Villa
Francisco Cruz
Rudy Francisco
Marcela Garcia
Rebecca del Rio
Horacio Morales
Precy Ortega
Leleng Isla
Release
Ilocana Maiden was theatrically released in 1954.
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