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.

• AFAlbert FinneyGeoffrey Firmin
• JBJacqueline BissetYvonne Firmin
• AAAnthony AndrewsHugh Firmin
• ILIgnacio López TarsoDr. Vigil
• KJKaty JuradoSenora Gregoria
• JVJames VilliersBrit
• DBDawson BrayQuincey
• CRCarlos RiquelmeBustamante
• JMJim McCarthyGringo
• JRJosé René RuizDwarf