[2] Upon release 25 March 1971 in Buenos Aires, it was both a box office success and critically acclaimed, with the critic from the newspaper La Razón writing: "Kordon's story gains expressive vigor in the images and verisimilitude in its characters and forms a captivating poetic climate and a lucid realistic testimony".
[4] His third picture, Paño verde (1973), is a gangster film set in Buenos Aires in the 1940s, covering the formation, rise and fall of a criminal gang.
[6] In 1979, David made La Rabona, a comedy film which starred Alberto Closas in the lead role.
Rafael Granados opined: "Mario David constructs a sensitive film, whose images are spoken softly".
In their 2001 book Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995), Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela describe La Rabona as a "discreet effort to get away from an industry in crisis, in a difficult time not only for the cinema".