CORRECCIONAL (1952)

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CORRECCIONAL (1952)

Release Date:  April 10-19, 1952 / Dalisay Theater)

Produced by LVN Pictures, Inc)

Cast:  Celia Flor, Mario Montenegro, Rosa Rosal, Tony Arnaldo

Direction:  Susana C. de Guzman

Source:  Literary Song-Movie Magazine

              April 1952

              (Courtesy of Simon Santos, Video 48)

       THE WEDDING of Norma and Armando was to be a great social event, but everything went haywire.  Perhaps, it was because the bride tried on her trousseau, an that's bad, according to popular belief.  At any rate, Armando's client, Dona Salome, was giving an important party, and in the height of the excitement, Dona Salome slips a pill into Norma's drink which makes her retire into the bedroom to sleep.  The Dona later accidentally opens the door to the bedroom, in the company of the young lawyer, Armando, and behold, Don Julio, Dona Salome's husband, is kissing passionately the inert form of Norma.  We wouldn't blame the young lawyer for avoiding his betrothed thence-forward and Dona Salome for demanding a separation from her erring husband -- with enough settlement to assuage her wounded feelings.  In a subsequent meeting between the young lovers, the lawyer wouldn't hear anything, the engagement is off.  Norma goes to see Don Julio to clear her name, and he finds him dead with a letter opener stuck to his body where the heart is.  Just then, Dona Salome comes out of nowhere shouting murder, and as the househelps gather around Norma to prevent her escape, the police is called and evidence points to Norma as the guilty person.  The trial was routine, and Norma is confined to the Correccional where her own mother is the Superintendent.  She believes firmly in her daughter's innocence, and she wants justice done, so she resigns her position and begin to take steps to vindicate her daughter.  The mother confronts Salome, threatens her with a gun if she does ot clear out the daughter, but in the scuffle that ensues, the gun goes off killing Norma's mother.  Salome is confined to Correccional on a murder charge, and she meets Norma.  The hatred between the two flares up into a first class cat-fighting, as a result of which they are placed in solitary confinement.  Norma begins to work on the nerves of guilty Salome by mentioning to her the fact that her husband's soul and the soul of Norma's other will haunt her in the cell, until Salome could no longer stand it and decides to make a clean breast of it all.  She signs a written confession, and the result is that Norma is released.  The good news spreads out, and the young lawyer who has been moping for sometime now, is happy enough to welcome his sweetheart into his arms.

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