The Last Torch Song, better known under its Spanish title El último cuplé, is a 1957 Spanish jukebox musical film directed by Juan de Orduña and starring Sara Montiel, Armando Calvo and Enrique Vera.
It was immensely popular domestically and it had a wide international release making it the worldwide highest-grossing Spanish-language film made up to that point.
Montiel accepted to star in the film as a deference to its director Juan de Orduña and during a vacation in Spain in between her Hollywood filmings Serenade and Run of the Arrow.
[3] Orduña had to sell the distribution rights to Cifesa to finance the completion of the filming.
The film had a wide international release with the dialogues dubbed or subtitled into other languages in non-Spanish speaking countries, while the songs kept in their original version.