Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina
★ 7 · 1937 · 87m · Drama · Comedy · Romance
A Young man from a wealthy family hide them his attraction for tango culture of arrabal. In a milonga he fell in love with Mirella and he have a knife fight with all others guapos that want her, he won. Time pass and Mirella became a mistress but this situation is unstable because of the society prejudices.
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