"Actor: Arturo de Córdova"

• Masquerade In Mexico | DVD | (04/07/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dorothy Lamour (Road to Singapore, The Greatest Show on Earth) stars in this suspenseful, yet hilarious musical pitting lovers against one another and leaving every character wondering who, exactly, has betrayed them. On the run from the authorities, the dashing Angel O'Reilly (Dorothy Lamour) finds herself lost and cash-strapped in Mexico, reluctantly accompanied by the shady Boris Cassall (George Rigaud). Soon, she lands a job as a nightclub singer after duping a club owner into believing she's a Spanish countess. One night, honest banker Tom Grant (Patric Knowles) stumbles into the temptress' show with his estranged wife Helen (Ann Dvorak), toting Manolo, a Mexican bullfighter, on her arm. Tom loves Helen. Helen loves Manolo. Manolo loves Angel and so does Boris. Meanwhile, Angel increasingly finds herself drawn to Tom. A comedy of errors ensues, as the entire cast of characters vie for one another's affection often without luck. High-energy, packed with intrigue and stocked with top-notch show tunes, Masquerade in Mexico is a musical you won't soon forget.

• New Orleans | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-3.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This little-seen 1947 drama is a treat for jazz fans thanks to an otherwise creaky if nobly intentioned story built around the music's Crescent City genesis that provides an ample excuse to turn the camera on authentic jazz greats. Nick Duquesne (Arturo De Cordova) is a Bourbon Street charmer whose gambling club provides the mythic stomping grounds for none other than Louis Armstrong whose vocalizing sweetheart Endie played by none other than Billie Holiday proves no slouch herself. A newly arrived debutante Miralee (Dorothy Patrick) arrives in New Orleans and falls first for the music and then for the roguish but ultimately gallant Nick. The movie follows knee-jerk plot machinations revolving around her family's efforts to excise Nick from her life her own dream of mingling jazz and classical music and the gambler's transformation into a jazz promoter.