Ilocana Maiden

Ilocana Maiden
Promotional poster
Directed byOlive La Torre
Screenplay by
  • Luciano B. Carlos
  • Conrado Conde
  • Willie P. Orfinada
Story byT. D. Agcaoili
Produced byJose O. Vera
StarringGloria Romero
CinematographySteve Perez
Edited byFederico Arroyo
Music by
  • Pastor de Jesus
  • Restie Umali
  • Conrado Conde
  • T. D. Agcaoili
Distributed bySampaguita Pictures
Release date
CountryPhilippines
Languages
  • Filipino
  • Ilocano

Ilocana Maiden (Filipino: Dalagang Ilocana) is a 1954 Filipino romantic comedy film directed by Olive La Torre from a screenplay by Luciano B. Carlos, Conrado Conde, and Willie P. Orfinada, based on a story written by T. D. Agcaoili, who also wrote additional lyrics with Conde. It stars Gloria Romero, Ric Rodrigo, and Rudy Francisco, while the supporting cast includes Dolphy and Rebecca del Rio.

A black and white film produced and released by Sampaguita Pictures, a radio adaptation of the film was serialized over DZRH Sampaguita Radio Program and also, it launched the career of Tita de Villa. It was theatrically released on July 4, 1954.

In 2021, the film was digitally restored and remastered by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP).

Background

Dolphy and Gloria Romero In the film

Olive La Torre directed Gloria Romero as a country girl who rolls tobacco leaves into cigars for a living. Romero is a comedian, combining as she does a nose with eyes that slant. Dolphy has a role as a comic sidekick. The film, set in the lands of the Ilocos region, is also a advertisement on smoking, with seemingly everyone onscreen from the haciendero to the tobacco roller lighting up cigars made from uncut tobacco leaf; one character actually suffers asthma attacks if he can't get nicotine, from the rolled cigars that only Romero knows how to make.

Cast

Release

Ilocana Maiden was theatrically released in 1954. In late 2000, the film was aired on PTV as part of its SineGinto 2000 program in cooperation with the Advertising Foundation of the Philippines.[1]

Accolades

FAMAS (Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards)
Year Category Nominee Result
FAMAS Awards Best Actress Gloria Romero Won

References

  1. ↑ "SineGinto episodes for August to December". Philippine Daily Inquirer. The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc. August 6, 2000. p. B4. Retrieved August 30, 2022.


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