actors such as Fernando Fernán Gómez, María Rosa Salgado, Maruchi Fresno, Luis Prendes, and José Bódalo. This film was also categorized as being of national interest and is viewed as his first great popular and economic success. In 1950 he also co-directed Jack el negro [Black Jack] with Julien Duvivier. He reached the summit of his career as a film maker in 1951 with Surcos [Furrows] (1951). This film, which has a clear social inspiration from a Falangist perspective, is considered to be one of the great films of Spanish cinema. It has a script from Natividad Zaro and Gonzalo Torrente Ballester based on a plot by Eugenio Montes and features Luis Peña and María Asquerino as its protagonists. The film caused controversy and was attacked by the Catholic Church for depicting taboo themes of the time, such as poverty, the black market, and rural migration, and as a result the ending of the film had to be changed before it could be screened. Additionally, despite winning national prizes it did not achieve commercial success. Filmography Unknown Path (1946) Anguish (1947) Night Arrival (1949) Black Jack (1950) a.k.a. Captain Blackjack Balarrasa (1950) a.k.a. Reckless Surcos (1951) a.k.a. Furrows Devil's Roundup (1952) Rebellion (1954) Duell der Herzen The Red Fish (1955) We're All Necessary (1956) The Legion of Silence 1956) The Tenant (1957) a.k.a. The Tenant Don Lucio y el hermano pío (1960) Prohibido enamorarse (1961) Por Tierras de las Siete Villas (1963) El Sonido prehistórico (1964) Sound from a Million Years Ago El Diablo también llora (1965) Cotolay (1966) Historia de una traición (1971) a.k.a. The Great Swindle Las Señoritas de mala compañía (1971) a.k.a. Marta The Marriage Revolution (1974) Más allá del deseo (1976) Volvoreta (1976) Casa Manchada (1977) a.k.a. Impossible Love References External links José Antonio Nieves Conde obituary . 1911 births 2006 deaths People from Segovia Spanish film directors Spanish male writers Male screenwriters 20th-century Spanish screenwriters 20th-century Spanish male writers