One Night (1947)

Fisherman/farmer Nanding (Rogelio dela Rosa) also happens to possess a fine singing voice. He's never without his guitar: either he's singing in church with the local choir or at the village store owned by Kapitan Bestre (Jose Cris Soto). Bestre's store also happens to be the only source of news and gossip, local or otherwise. And the barrio is astir with the return of Marina (Mila del Sol), the daughter of the despotic Cabesang Berong (Engracio Ibarra), the town's richest resident. A flashback reveals that Marina and Nanding were childhood friends; Marina's father never approved because Nanding was only a fisherman's son. Berong's wife Doray (Rosa Mia), on the other hand, was a saintly woman, loved and respected as much as her husband was despised. Marina and Nanding renew their old friendship, which inevitably turns into love. Berong tries his best to destroy the relationship, but Marina defies him and moves into the village store to be near Nanding--and learns to live like the rest of the rural folk, working and saving up so she and Nanding can get married and set up home.