The Children of Sanchez

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the ’60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score., Anthony Quinn dominates this South-of-the-Border domestic study of an Old World patriarch’s tribulations with his independent-minded brood. Lupita Ferrer. Grandma: Dolores Del Rio. Roberto: Stathis Giallelis. Marta: Lucia Mendez.