Under the Volcano

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.

• John HustonDirector
• Alex NorthOriginal Music Composer
• Guy GalloScreenplay

• Albert FinneyGeoffrey Firmin
• Jacqueline BissetYvonne Firmin
• Anthony AndrewsHugh Firmin
• Ignacio López TarsoDr. Vigil
• Katy JuradoSenora Gregoria
• James VilliersBrit
• Dawson BrayQuincey
• Carlos RiquelmeBustamante
• Jim McCarthyGringo
• José René RuizDwarf
• Eleazar García Jr.Chief of Gardens
• Salvador SánchezChief of Stockyards