Criminal Brigade

Criminal Brigade (Spanish:Brigada criminal) is a 1950 Spanish crime film directed by Ignacio F. Iquino and starring José Suarez, Soledad Lence and Alfonso Estela. It is a film noir with large amounts of location shooting in Madrid. Plot Fernando Olmos, a recently graduated police officer, witnesses a bank robbery, although he cannot do anything to prevent it. His first job is to infiltrate a garage as a car washer to catch a thief, unaware that the owner of the establishment is also the head of the robbery gang. The film ends with a shocking sequence: the fight against the robbers in a building under construction: the Francisco Franco Health Residence, now the Valle de Hebrón Hospital in Barcelona. Cast José Suarez as Fernando Olmos Sánchez Soledad Lence as Celia Albéniz Alfonso Estela as Óscar Román Manuel Gas as Inspector Basilio Lérida Barta Barri as Mario Pedro Córdoba de Córdoba Fernando Vallejo Antonio S. Amaya as Eduardo José Manuel Pinillos Tomy Castels Carlos Ronda as Correo Matías Ferret José Soler Maruchi Fresno Isabel de Castro Carlos Otero Mercedes Mozart