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Thursday, December 3, 2009

FPJ AND EDDIE MESA IN "ROLLING ROCKERS"(1959): KOMIKS SERIAL AND MOVIE ADAPTATION (UPDATED)

Fernando Poe, Jr. and Eddie Mesa played brothers in the 1959 movie, "Rolling Rockers." Froilan (FPJ) and Elmo (Eddie Mesa) were orphaned at an early age and the responsibility of earning a living for both falls on the older Froilan. All of his efforts to get Elmo interested in his law studies are however futile because the younger one’s interest lies in his combo. Meanwhile, Froilan finds himself involved with a gang of hoodlums headed by Monching. He was a victim of the gang himself and in self defense had killed one of them. (to continue reading, click image below)

The movie was based from the komiks novel by Virgilio and Nestor Redondo, serialized in Tagalog Klasiks.




"Rolling Rockers" (1959)- Stars Fernando Poe, Jr., Leonor Vergara, Cielito Legaspi and Eddie Mesa/ Directed by Danilo H. Santiago




Tagalog Klasiks/ 1958
(From Steve Santos Collection)

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