[2] Alberto, a rich landlord, is forcing his attention on Carmen (nicknamed La calandria), who recently lost her mother.
[3] A "tragic love story", it is one of the films made by de Fuentes in an intense period of creativity in the early 1930s,[4] these films being called "all exceptional works of the early sound period.
"[6][7] It is also one of the Mexican films "set in the time of the nineteenth-century hacienda system" and revolving around the character of a charro.
[8] La calandria was produced by Bustillo Orillo through Hispano Mexicano Cinematográfica[9][10] and released under the banner of Azteca Films.
[14] A review in the New York Times noted the "dark beauty of Carmen Guerrero".