If You Came Back to Me

{{Short description|1954 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = If You Came Back to Me

| image = File:If You Came Back to Me.jpeg

| caption =

| director = Alfredo B. Crevenna

| producer = Gregorio Walerstein

| screenplay = Julio Alejandro de Castro

| story = Henry Bordeaux

| starring = Libertad Lamarque
Silvia Pinal
Miguel Torruco
Maricruz Olivier

| music = Manuel Esperón

| cinematography = Agustín Martínez Solares

| editing = Rafael Ceballos

| studio = Filmex

| released = {{Film date|1954|10|1|Mexico|df=yes}}

| runtime = 100 minutes

| country = Mexico

| language = Spanish

}}

If You Came Back to Me ({{langx|es|Si volvieras a mí}}) is a 1954 Mexican drama film directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna and starring Libertad Lamarque, Silvia Pinal, Miguel Torruco and Maricruz Olivier.{{cite book|last1=Gallego|first1=Rolando|last2=Dlugi|first2=Catalina|title=Mujeres, cámara, acción: Empoderamiento y feminismo en el cine argentino|publisher=Ediciones Continente|year=2020|page=37|isbn=978-950-754-656-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r-7mDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT37|language=es}}{{cite book|last1=León Frías|first1=Isaac|title=Más allá de las lágrimas: Espacios habitables en el cine clásico de México y Argentina|publisher=Fondo Editorial Universidad de Lima|year=2019|page=523|isbn=978-9972-45-486-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8TOXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT523|language=es}}{{cite book|last1=Arnaud|first1=Charlotte|last2=Courtemanche|first2=Philippe|last3=Fernandes|first3=Carla|last4=Morsch Kihn|first4=Eva|title=Cinémas d'Amérique latine: 1999|publisher=Presses Univ. du Mirail|year=1999|page=67|isbn=2-85816-447-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XkXmXxNxSKsC&pg=PA67|language=es}} It was shot at the San Ángel Studios in Mexico City. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jorge Fernández.

Plot

Alejandra (Libertad Lamarque) is married to doctor Pedro (Miguel Torruco) and they have a daughter, Eva (Maricruz Olivier). When Eva is a young woman, she travels with her mother to the capital to meet Pedro, where they discover that he has set up a luxury hospital alongside a partner, Lidia (Silvia Pinal). Alejandra realizes that Lidia has stolen her husband's love and is doing the same with her daughter, whom she uses to try to kill her own mother without knowing she is poisoning her with medication.

Cast

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