{{Short description|1979 film}} {{Infobox film | name = Midnight Dolls | image =File:Midnight Dolls.jpeg | caption = | director = Rafael Portillo | producer = Guillermo Calderon | writer = Víctor Manuel Castro <br> Francisco Cavazos | starring = Jorge Rivero <br> Isela Vega <br> Sasha Montenegro | music = Gustavo César Carrión | cinematography = Miguel Araña | editing = | studio = Cinematográfica Calderón | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1979|12|27|df=yes}} | runtime = 115 minutes | country = Mexico | language = Spanish | budget = | gross = }} '''''Midnight Dolls''''' (Spanish: '''''Muñecas de medianoche''''') is a 1979 Mexican erotic drama film directed by Rafael Portillo and starring Jorge Rivero, Isela Vega, and Sasha Montenegro.<ref>Ramírez Berg p.127</ref> The film belongs to a genre that has been described as "cabaratera film", popular in the 1950s and then again in the 1970s: "These movies were instant successes due to their half-nudity, implied eroticism, musical backgrounds, sensual dancing, and foul language", commented Andrew Grant Wood.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wood |first=Andrew Grant |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/On_the_Border/LR6_AAAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Mu%C3%B1ecas+de+medianoche)&pg=PA181&printsec=frontcover |title=On the Border: Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico |date=2004-09-14 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=978-1-4616-3971-8 |language=en}}</ref>
==Cast== * Jorge Rivero as Rafael Martinez Lopez * Isela Vega as * Sasha Montenegro * Carmen Salinas * Rafael Inclán * Víctor Manuel Castro * Pompín Iglesias * Princesa Lea * Roberto G. Rivera * Irina Areu * Diana Arriaga * Angélica Chain * Enrique Cuenca * Humberto Elizondo * Armando Silvestre * Manuel 'Loco' Valdés
== References == {{reflist}}
== Bibliography == * Charles Ramírez Berg. ''Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983''. University of Texas Press, 2010.
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0257946}}
Category:1979 films Category:1970s erotic drama films Category:Mexican erotic drama films Category:1979 Spanish-language films Category:Films about prostitution in Mexico Category:Films directed by Rafael Portillo Category:1979 drama films Category:1979 Mexican films Category:Spanish-language erotic drama films
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