El Gaucho y el diablo (The Gaucho and the Devil) is a 1952 Argentine drama film of the classical era of Argentine cinema, directed by Ernesto Remani, based on a script by José María Fernández Unsain,[2][3] who adapted it from the 1891 short story "The Bottle Imp", by Robert Louis Stevenson.
[4] The film stars Juan José Míguez, Elisa Galvé, Francisco Martínez Allende, and Elina Colomer.
[2] A rancher makes a pact with the devil to find happiness and love.
[5] La Razón said of the film: "A failed attempt...the lack of laboratories for developing the film, a technical aspect that had to be completed abroad, had a decisive influence.
This resulted in a series of defects in the editing and an appreciable lack of unity in the layout.