Manila in the Claws of Light
- Original title
- Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag
- Year
- 1975
- Running time
- 126 min.
- Country
Philippines
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr.. Novel: Edgardo Reyes
- Cast
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- Hilda Koronel
- Bembol Roco
- Lou Salvador Jr.
- Joonee Gamboa
- Pio De Castro III
- Danilo Posadas
- Jose Jardinazo
- Spanky Manikan
- Edipolo Erosido
- Pancho Pelagio
- Purita Yap
- Josephine Gutierrez
- Gina Zegui
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Prostitution. Poverty. Job/Employment
- Synopsis
- Julio, a young fisherman, leaves his village to go to Manila, where he hopes to find his fiancée Ligaya, who went there for her studies and from whom he hasn’t heard anything. In order to make a living, he gets a job as a worker on a construction site, but he will soon discover the slums of the Filipino capital.
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