He sought out rare showings of the Universal Horror films which were highly popular at the time and although too young to buy a ticket he was able to sneak in to El Cine Rex in Madrid to watch Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), a film that proved highly influencial on his future cinema career.

A career in cinema however was not the first choice of Jacinto's industrialist parents and instead he was encouraged to study agriculture and later architecture in Barcelona where he earned acclaim for his drawing talents which would later secure him a job designing album covers.

Jacinto expanded his continuing love of cinema into writing during the boom of the American Western craze in the 1950s when he wrote a series of Old West novels. He wrote his first film script in the 1960s for a werewolf picture but found little interest among Spanish producers to fund it.

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