The hit of our 1994 series on Mexican cinema, Victims of Sin is a tour-de-force for Ninón Sevilla, rumba dancer first and foremost, and incidentally an over-the-top actress. She portrays a cabaret dancer trying to raise a kid and forced into prostitution. "Victims of the Social Structure" doesn't make a very good title but that's what it's all about; the social drama, exploited in the rumberas to the point of high camp, is nevertheless a dark aspect of this genre of moody musical melodramas. Rodolfo Acosta is Sevilla's perverse pimp/artistic director and his zoot-suited dance will bring down the house. Meanwhile, Tito Junco as her enigmatic would-be savior walks the streets with his sorrows and ever-present mariachi music in tow. Also discover here the rhythms of Perez Prado and urban chanteuse Rita Montaner. Director Emilio Fernández was a keen practitioner of Cuban rhythms.