El Hombre de los Hongos (1976)

Genres - Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance  |   Sub-Genres - Adventure Drama, Romantic Adventure  |   Run Time - 100 min.  |   Countries - Mexico  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Steve Huey

A drama with plenty of symbolism, this film centers around a black boy found in the jungle near a waterfall by an elderly Mexican plantation owner, who raises the child as his own. His youngest daughter falls in love with the boy as they grow older, and they also grow affectionate with a black panther chained in their courtyard, which mysteriously gets loose and runs off. The mother, who hates the panther, tries to get romantic with the young man, but he refuses her. She runs away and is killed by the panther. The owner, who is not comfortable with the interracial romance, forces the young man into the job of mushroom taster: if he eats a poisoned mushroom and dies, the pickers will know which areas to stay away from. He escapes and has a liaison with the daughter, who then goes off by herself to the waterfall and meets the panther, which kills her in spite of her affection for it. The young man then returns to the jungle.

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daughter, interracial, jungle, mushroom, panther