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Under the Volcano

65% | Jun 12, 1984 | Drama

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.

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John Huston
Director
Malcolm Lowry
Novel

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Albert Finney
Geoffrey Firmin
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Jacqueline Bisset
Yvonne Firmin
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Anthony Andrews
Hugh Firmin
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Katy Jurado
Senora Gregoria

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