Bruto, El (1953) review

Andrés Cabrera (Andrés Soler), a landlord, wants to evict all of his tenants so he can build a house for himself but they understandably resist, so he recruits hulking (and dense) Pedro (Pedro Armendáriz), who works in a slaughterhouse, to "rough up" the most outspoken resisters, and accidentally kills one of them.  For being a basic soap opera-type story - one that's far more straightforward than many of Buñuel's better known movies - it still features one of the director's obsessions - class warfare - and how capitalists turn the "lower rung of society" on each other.  The performances are solid, too: Pedro may be a "brute," but he also has a sensitive side (he feels genuine remorse for ending someone's life) and Katy Jurado does her version of a Mexican Lady Macbeth.