The plot was inspired by the same named song of
Agustín Lara, who brought other tropical themes along with Juan Bruno Tarraza and
Rafael Hernández Marín. One of the classic films of the
Rumberas film is
Humo en los ojos. In his essential and delicious
Documentary History of Mexican cinema, the researcher
Emilio García Riera writes the following comment: ''It's funny the outcome of this tropical melodrama. David Silva feels incestuous by simple solidarity with her former lover Maria Luisa Zea and that makes him give up of a Meche Barba more "femme fatal" than ever. In the microcosm of the tropical cabaret, the director Alberto Gout discovered how the passions tragically collide with the revelations of kinship. At the same time, Gout was finding, for him and for the genre of Rumberas, the style that would give prosperity in the coming years''. The film was originally offered to the Cuban-Mexican rumbera
María Antonieta Pons. As the producer(s) and Pons did not reach a salary agreement, the producer Alfonso Rosas Priego and the director Alberto Gout began to test several other candidates. Among them were Lupita Torrentera, Yadira Jimenez and Ethel Maklen, but eventually Meche Barba was chosen. Thanks to this film, Barba makes her foray into
Rumbera films. ==References==