The year's top rate dramatic film fare, "Dating Sumpaan," opens today at the Grand for its regular exhibition and it's time the cine-goers "must" see it. Featuring three outstanding film personalities in the stellar cast — Rosario Moreno, Jose Padilla, Jr. and Ernesto La Guardia— and bearing a novel theme, this latest Excelsior creation, directed by Carlos Padilla, has an entertainment quality of the highest grade.
Rosario Moreno interprets the novel role of a private nurse who is loved by two men— Jose Padilla, Jr. as one and Ernesto La Guardia as the other. Replete with such stirring complications as Padilla's marrying another woman and his meeting with Rosario Moreno years after.
"Dating Sumpaan" is the kind of photoplay that everybody will go for. What develops after the meeting and what becomes of Ernesto La Guardia — all of which you have to find out for yourself — furnish the powerful climax. The story was jointly written by Excelsior Production Manager Luis F. Nolascco and Fidel de Castro. Musical direction was by Miguel Velarde, Jr.
It's a matter of life and death — but he must live. Rosario Moreno looks apprehensively at Ernesto La Guardia, the attending physician during this crucial moment with her lover's life hanging at a thread's end. Padilla is being operated on for some serious ailment. The above scene, incidentally, is the most suspenseful as well as expensive in "Dating Sumpaan" in that it marks the meeting for the first time in years of Rosario Moreno and Jose Padilla,Jr. and necessitated no little effort on the part of Excelsior Setting Director Francisco Pineda. The entire studio lot of Excelsior was transformed into an operation room with the cooperation of I.C. Model & Co., a leading firm in Manila dealing in hospital and surgical apparatus and implements. Through special arrangements, hospital implements and apparatus valued approximately at P2.000.00 were lent to Excelsior Picture, Inc. to put over the above scene.
(The Tribune, November 7, 1940)
"Dating Sumpaan" (1940)
Excelsior Pictures, Inc.
Release Date November 7, 1940/ Grand Theater
Story Luis F. Nolasco, Fidel de Castro
Music Miguel Velarde, Jr.
In Charge of Production Luis F. Nolasco
Direction Carlos Padilla
Cast Rosario Moreno, Jose Padilla, Jr., Ernesto La Guardia, with Billy Vizcarra, Rosario Lam, Pacita del Rio, Jose Nieto, Ana Garcia, Baby Cita Rosal
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