Sombrero is a 1953 American musical romance film directed by Norman Foster and starring Ricardo Montalbán, Pier Angeli, Vittorio Gassman and Cyd Charisse.

[4] In his long review for the October 16, 1945 issue of The New York Times, Orville Prescott calls it "remarkable...one of the finest books about Mexico I have ever read.”[5] Three couples involved in budding romances are caught in the middle of a feud between two Mexican villages.

In June 1951, MGM announced they had bought the screen rights to Mexican Village as a "possible vehicle for Ricardo Montalbán" and assigned Jack Cummings to produce.

There's also a beautifully performed but decidedly strange number for Charisse, who dances out her psychological conflicts under Hermes Pan's direction (some sources credit Stanley Donen) on a studio-built mountaintop.”[16] In his April 23, 1953 review for The New York Times, Bosley Crowther writes: “ Sombrero …is a big, broad-brimmed, squashy sort of picture, as massive as the garment for which it is named…Although it is labored under by a distinguished and resolute cast, it engulfs and obliterates its people in a huge, mottled, shape-obscuring shade.

It was made to cover a lot of area, and the people who put it together didn't have the large-scale skill for the job.” According to Crowther, the “lively folk tales” are (re-told) so poorly…that the sum is a jumbled, tedious blob….