La gloria y el infierno (English title:Glory and Hell) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Gonzalo Martínez Ortega and Juan Osorio for Televisa in 1986. It is based on the novel Duel in the Sun by American writer Niven Busch. It starred Ofelia Medina, Héctor Bonilla, Fernando Balzaretti and Saby Kamalich.
Plot
After the Mexican Revolution, Sara Vallarta, wife of Fernando de Michoacán a landowner agrees to meet with his cousin and former boyfriend, Sebastian Arteaga. To avoid rumors, Concerta appointment in an abandoned church and go along with his two sons, Michael and Sergio. Sebastian confesses he has joined an Indian with whom he has a daughter, Agnes, but that has never stopped loving her.
He asks Sara that if something happens to him, care for your family. Just Sebastián goes, appears Fernando who explained while Sara immediately assumes she is unfaithful and since then, ejected from his bed and does not return you to talk to. Although Sara is still living in the home of her ex-husband, is practically a ghost because it is completely ignored.
Sebastian dies, and his wife, Sara proud not go where, however, relates to the owner of a tavern not caring that Inés grow in such sordid environment. Twenty years later, President Lázaro Cárdenas began his agrarian program of expropriation of farms, and Fernando Vallarta is the main opposition to this measure. Just in these circumstances is when the beautiful orphan Inés comes to live with Vallarta.
Cast
Ofelia Medina as Inés Arteaga
Héctor Bonilla as Miguel Vallarta
Fernando Balzaretti as Sergio Vallarta
Jorge Russek as Don Fernando Vallarta
Saby Kamalich as Sara Vallarta
Elvira Monsell as Martina
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. as Sebastián Arteaga
Salvador Sánchez as Asunción
Anna Silvetti as Adriana
Lucía Guilmáin as Concha
Josefina Echánove as Guadalupe
Arturo Beristáin as Madrigal
Dolores Beristáin as Vicenta
Arturo Benavides as Pontón
Arlette Pacheco as Amalia
Patricio Castillo as Dr. Mendoza
Carlos Cardán as Valerio Redondo
Miguel Gómez Checa as Augusto
Alberto Gavira as Graciano
Uriel Chávez as Cruz
Guillermo Gil as Genaro
Gilberto Pérez Gallardo as Yáñez
David Phillips as Sergio (child) Sergio Bonilla as Miguel (child) Nelly as Inés (child) Mario Casillas as Lic. Arvides Blanca Torres as María Quintín Bulnes as Yáñez Narciso Busquets as Gallardo Jorge Fegán Maribel Tarrago Jesús Gómez Munguía Ángel de la Peña Gustavo del Castillo Federico Romano Dacia González