Verbena Trágica (Tragic Festival, also known as Block Party) is a 1939 film directed by Charles Lamont.
[2][3] On the eve of Columbus Day festivities in New York, the boxer Mateo Vargas is released early from a jail term he served after he struck a police officer.
He returns home for a surprise reunion with his family, but his wife Blanca faints.
His trainer wants him to return to the boxing ring, but Mateo is too preoccupied with Blanca's infidelity.
While he was in jail, Blanca had been seeing Claudio, the fiancé of Mateo's sister Lola.