Jaguar (1979)
1h 40m
Running Time
August 31, 1979Release Date
Plot.
Poldo, a lowly security in a publishing firm, dreams to be rich. He becomes the personal bodyguard to his employer's son, Sonny, when he impresses the latter with his courage and skills during a quarrel where Poldo defended Sonny. Poldo gets a taste of his boss' carefree and extravagant lifestyle and thinks that he accepts him as a friend. In one of the nightclubs they frequent, Sonny is smitten by dancer Cristy and aggressively pursues her despite a warning from San Pedro, the movie director with whom Cristy has an affair. When they chance upon each other, Sonny and San Pedro fight. Poldo comes to his boss' rescue and guns down San Pedro. In subsequent circumstances, Poldo would soon arrive at a bitter realization. As he could not see in Sonny the benefactor that he pictured him to be, Poldo finds himself alone, abandoned and betrayed.
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Cast & Crew.
Phillip Salvador
Poldo Miranda
Menggie Cobarrubias
Sonny Gaston
Amy Austria
Cristy Montes
Johnny Delgado
Direk San Pedro
Mario Escudero
Berting
Anita Linda
Mother
Lino Brocka
Director
Nick Joaquin
Writer
Jose F. Lacaba
Writer
Aida Carmona
Estrella
Ricardo Lee
Writer
Vanishing Tribe
Composer
Conrado Baltazar
Cinematographer
Dexter Doria
Chuchay
Deborah Sun
Apple
Roi Vinzon
Edmon
Media.
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Wiki.
Jaguar is a 1979 Filipino neo noir crime film directed by Lino Brocka. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. The story is based on the real-life "Brown Derby Shooting" in 1960 as documented by Quijano de Manila in the article "The Boy Who Wanted to Become Society", later republished in the non-fiction crime anthology, Reportage on Crime (1977).