Classic Mexican melodrama shows us that the excesses of Luis Buñuel and Arturo Ripstein did not come out of nowhere. 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, albeit exploited to the point of high camp in the rumberas. Rodolfo Acosta is Sevilla's perverse pimp/artistic director (his zoot-suited dance will bring down the house), while Tito Junco as her enigmatic would-be savior walks the streets with his sorrows and ever-present mariachi sounds in tow. Also discover here the rhythms of Perez Prado and urban chanteuse Rita Montaner.