Manuel Vergara 'Manver'

Movies

The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Villista (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
Cinco en la cárcel
Five criminals are arrested after a bank-robbery. One escapes, and the police officer in charge of transporting them arrests a new person at random to cover up for his negligence.
Por mis pistolas
Gran jefe caballo recostado
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
Si quiero
Concierge
Newlyweds find married life to be challenging.
El fugitivo
Drifter returns to his home town for revenge, but he get caught up in the town's interpersonal dramas.
Frente al destino
La máscara de jade
Bandit
Jungle adventure about the search for a lost treasure.
The Paper Man
Pepenador (uncredited)
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Corazón de niño
Teacher and his pupils in small-town Mexico.
Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte
Tony
Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.
Tlayucan
Mendigo ciego
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
Nostradamus: The Genie of Darkness
Leo
In order to stop a vampire from terrorizing the countryside, some locals decide to break into his coffin at night and steal his ashes. Complications ensue.
Nostradamus and the Destroyer of Monsters
Leo
A professor and a vampire hunter join forces to destroy the murderous vampire Nostradamus and his minions.
The Infernal Coffin
Manuel
An obscure old dark house horror melodrama from Mexico. Based on the novel "El fistol del diablo" by Manuel Payno.
Paloma brava
Paloma is bound and determined to kill the heck out of the guy that dishonored her sister, but mistaken identities and stuff.
The Blood of Nostradamus
Leo
Vampire hunters track down a vampire and attempt to steal the ashes from his coffin in order to stop him from reviving nightly.
Simitrio
Pedro
A blind teacher is the victim of endless pranks and pranks from his students.
Una estrella y dos estrellados
Bandido
In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.
Los tigres del ring
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
La Cucaracha
Soldado
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom fighters: a colonel, a widow, and a fiery female soldier.
El hombre del alazán
Professional gambler is getting old and jaded; his friends see him becoming a bad person and try to set him on a better path.
La diligencia de la muerte
Gerencio
Law officer goes undercover as member of gang of murderous highwaymen.
Sábado negro
El jinete solitario en el valle de los buitres
Masked hero on horseback. One in a series.
El Látigo Negro
Zorro imitation, first in a series.
Una cita de amor
Bartender (uncredited)
The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.
Pepito y los robachicos
Good-hearted simpleton opens his home to a street urchin escaping from an Oliver Twist-style kid-gang of pickpockets beggars and paperboys.
Guitarras de medianoche
Wealthy land-owner poses as a bandit, robbing only his own properties, to get the romantic attention of a woman who lives down the road.
Préstame tu cuerpo
Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.
Pancho López
A couple of people cover up their own mishandling of other people's money by claiming to have been robbed by a masked bandit. When the law comes looking into the situation, it becomes necessary to find someone to impersonate that bandit. Remake of El Tigre De Jalisco (1947).
Los amantes
Mexican feature film
The Brave One
Man playing drum stadium (uncredited)
A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
The Road of Life
Don Nico
The story focuses in on three young boys who, arrested by the authorities, await sentencing in Mexico City's Juvenile Court. One boy has killed his stepfather to protect his mother; the second boy has been goaded into blinding his chief tormentor; and the third resorts to stealing to support his family.
Los paquetes de Paquita
Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.
Damned City!
A humble provincial writer who wants to publish his first book offers it to a film producer who is looking for locations for a film at that time. The novelist's family then moves to the big city, where they will have to face many adversities that will make them wish they had never left their village.
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Carnicero (uncredited)
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
The Net
Bartender
Antonio dives for sponges which are sold by his sweetheart Rossana. One day, the escaped prisoner José-Luis appears and is hid by his friend Antonio. Although José-Luis does not want to betray his friend, a love affair with tragic consequences between him and Rossana develops. The Net was one of Mexico's entries at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
Conductor ebrio (uncredited)
This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
La bienamada
Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...
¡No me defiendas, compadre!
A bungling wannabe-lawyer keeps interfering in his friend's lives; his desire to help always makes things worse.