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A group of baseball players achieved what no other Mexican team had at the US Junior League. Despite the strong adversity, harsh weather and socio-economic differences, the young 1957 champions from Nuevo Le\u00f3n crossed the border and conquered the White House.<\/p>\n
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Hugo Butler<\/strong> worked as a journalist and playwright in United States, where he wrote scripts such as Edison, The Man<\/em>, nominated for an Oscar. Butler and his wife, Jean Rouverol, were active members of the Communist Party. After being blacklisted by the Committee for Anti-American Activity in 1947, they fled to Mexico. There, Butler continued writing, using a pseudonym, for Luis Bu\u00f1uel and Robert Aldrich, and directed Little Giants<\/em> in 1960 under the name Hugo Mozo.<\/p>\n George Pepper<\/strong> (December 1, 1913 \u2013 December 14, 1969), aka George P. Werker, was also on the black list and adopted an alias. He too fled to Mexico with his wife Jeanette, where Butler introduced him to the Spanish director Luis Bu\u00f1uel, with whom he collaborated in the films Robinson Crusoe<\/em> and La Joven<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *Produced by\u00a0George Pepper (aka George P. Werker)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [[proyecciones]]<\/p>\n [[documentales]]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SYNOPSIS A group of baseball players achieved what no other Mexican team had at the US Junior League. Despite the strong adversity, harsh weather and socio-economic differences, the young 1957 champions from Nuevo Le\u00f3n crossed the border and conquered the White House. BIOGRAPHY Hugo Butler worked as a journalist and playwright in United States, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24527,"template":"","categories":[2],"tags":[],"sedes":[465,146,26,412,486,451,216,171,40,185,44,435,197,468,238,403],"iniciativas":[74],"temas":[87,358,136,98,88,356,368],"acf":[],"post_meta":{"_edit_lock":["1656996698:30"],"_edit_last":["30"],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["90"],"event_subtitle":[""],"first_date":[null],"sin_fecha":["0"],"_amb_vimeo_url":[""],"_amb_titulo_original":["Little Giants"],"_amb_director":["Hugo Butler (alias Hugo Mozo)"],"_amb_anio":["1958"],"_amb_genero":[""],"_amb_pais":["M\u00e9xico-Estados Unidos"],"_amb_idioma":["Espa\u00f1ol"],"_amb_duracion":["87 "],"_amb_fotografia":["Walter Reuter"],"_amb_guion":["Hugo Butler, Edward Huebsch"],"_amb_edicion":["Giovanni Korporaal"],"_amb_sonido":["Enrique Rend\u00f3n"],"_amb_musica":["Rodolfo Halffter"],"_amb_animacion":[""],"_amb_diseno_sonoro":[""],"_amb_produccion":["George Pepper (alias George P. Werker)"],"_amb_produccion_ejecutiva":[""],"_amb_compania_productora":["Producciones Olmeca, Clasa Film Mundiales"],"_amb_festivales_premios":[""],"_amb_contacto":[""],"_amb_contacto_mail":[""],"_amb_enlaces_externos":[""],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["2"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_secciones":["340"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_sedes":["412"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_iniciativas":["74"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_temas":["87"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_festivales":["314"],"_wp_old_date":["2018-02-26","2018-02-27","2018-03-12"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_guia-documentales":["386"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_ciudades":[""],"_thumbnail_id":["24527"],"_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":["Un equipo de la liga infantil de b\u00e9isbol regiomontano logr\u00f3 cruzar la frontera hacia los Estados Unidos y conquistar la Casa Blanca."],"_amb_extra_button_text":[""],"_amb_extra_button_link":[""],"inline_featured_image":["0"]},"eventos":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/137.184.87.148\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentales\/7126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/137.184.87.148\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentales"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/137.184.87.148\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/documentales"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/137.184.87.148\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentales\/7126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24528,"href":"http:\/\/137.184.87.148\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentales\/7126\/revisions\/24528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/137.184.87.148\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/137.184.87.148\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/137.184.87.148\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/137.184.87.148\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"sedes","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/137.184.87.148\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sedes?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"iniciativas","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/137.184.87.148\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iniciativas?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"temas","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/137.184.87.148\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/temas?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}