Armando Soto La Marina 'El Chicote'
Birth : 1909-10-02, Juanacatlán, Jalisco, Mexico
Death : 1983-03-20
History
Armando Soto La Marina was born on October 1, 1909. He was an actor.
Returning to his grandmother's ranch, this northerner falls in love with the daughter of a great criminal. He will have to confront murderous gunmen trying to steal his land and the woman he adores.
Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.
Lucerito is a Spanish star who has come to Mexico, accompanied by her godfather and her agent, to find work. Rosario is from upper class society and has grown tired of the demands made upon her by her family. When they meet each other in a Mexican hotel, they discover that they could be each other's identical twin and decide to change places.
Mexican feature film
The engineer José Luis, husband of the fichera and dancer Estrella Raleigh, dies in a plane crash. During the burial, Estrella discovers that her husband was having an affair. It's quickly revealed that things are a bit more complicated than they initially appear.
A club of elderly dudes plan a contest among themselves to see who can pull the most babes over a holiday weekend.
Mexican feature film
Young woman engineers a reconciliation between her long-estranged parents.
Don Lupe
The outstanding comedian, "La India Maria," unknowingly ends up as a detective in Acapulco, pursued by smugglers of ancient artifacts.
Parody of the Zorro-styled "noble bandit" story.
Gumaro and his buddy Chon are among the First Citizens locally. One day, unexpectedly, twin brothers of both of them turn up in town. Adaptation of A Comedy Of Errors.
Raange war between two feuding ranch families in the 1930s.
Felipe goes home for a holiday and discovers that everything in town has changed in his absence; old don So-and-so is running around forcing people to sell their farms to him and killing them if they refuse.
Dying man calls in the three illegitimate sons who never met him to take over the ownership of his nightclub and brothel. Wacky hijinks and boobies.
After being released from prison, our boy just wants to go home, run his farm and live peacefully... but the local agro-robberbaron won't let him be. Remake of Pueblerina (1949).
Several unrelated groups of people descend on Acapulco for a party weekend. Wacky misadventures!
Don Pedro
La India Maria becomes deeply embroiled in a large scale diamond heist.
Chalio
After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
Dramatization of a popular '70s corrido.
A 1968 film.
Sacristán
Newlyweds find married life to be challenging.
Mexican feature film
White-hat cowboy takes down a Western gang-leader and his hired guns.
Quick-draw dude helps to protect a woman and her pa from predatory land-grabbing land-grabbers when they discover a silver mine on their ranch.
Series western -- cowboy hero "Martin Romero, el Rapido."
Quick-drawing cowboy hero, first in series. (See also:Frontera sin ley.)
Two boys and two girls hook up at the big festival in a neighboring town. Once they get back home they have to deal with their families' plans for them, which may not include their new sweethearts.
Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains why he really really really needs the prize money.
Guy gets mugged on horseback and left for dead; farmgal nurses him back to health and when he's on his feet again, he puts a domino on and swings into J J action.
Crescencio Godinez
Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts.
Love in bloom between two ranching families: boy A and girl B, boy B and girl A, the surviving grandparent of each family, their elderly man-baby house stewards, and the prize racehorse from each family all end up pairing off together. Transitory problems, inevitable happy solutions.
Pachin
The story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo.
Cowboy-hero B-western with comical overtones. First of two in series.
Chicote
Alfredo B. Crevenna helms this charming romantic comedy about a pair of skirt-chasers wooing the two lovely daughters of a land baron — who rebuffs the young swains to protect his girls.
Gentleman swindler runs cleverly-orchestrated scams. Four of four in a series.
A Villista girl and a Huertista boy -- can their love cross ideological lines and heal a trembling nation?
"Gentleman bandit" and his gang execute a series of elaborate heists. #3 of 4 in a series.
Number 2 of 4 in a series about the exploits of a crew of Robin Hood-esque con artists.
Robustiano
Mom doesn't approve of her son's fiancée, so she schemes a scheme to throw him together with a woman she likes better. It involves him leaving town to become a bullfighter, and...
Father insists that one of his sons get married... because with no woman in the house, they can't get a good meal. The rest of the movie is devoted to pairing off everybody in sight.
First of four in series about Robin Hood-type social-justice criminal. Elaborate heist scenarios.
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Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.
Two rodeo competitors from neighboring towns get all up in each other's business in the weeks before a big local competition. So do their respective manservants and the priests for each one's parish. Lotta competitive ructiousness going on.
A crew of happy ne'er do wells comes to town to gamble and party during the town fair... but then their leader gets serious about a local girl and about finding the rustlers who are stealing all of her daddy's horses.
Romantic triangle. One of the guys is a very bad man.
Two young sweethearts get tangled up with a bad guy and a stolen necklace.
Two itinerant cowhands hire on at a ranch owned by a woman, end up fighting two bad-hats who rustle la patrona's cattle and set fire to her stables.
The reading of a will turns into a scavenger hunt among the heirs.
Don Anselmo
Horse-trader gets absorbed into Pancho Villa's battalions, becomes a spy.
After breaking out of jail, a group of convicts finds a ghost town they can take possession of. They send word out along the grapevine that criminals and marginal people can make a home there... and as the population grows, their self-policing efforts turn the whole town into a model community.
Ranch-owner visits the big city to help his brother launch a theatrical venture.
Chicote
The arrogant Arizmendi, pelota champion, lives intoxicated by his success and disdain for women who love him. Arizmendi commits blackmail to lose a game. Convinced to get away with it, Arizmendi does not meet the covenant and must face the villainous revenge Marcial Gomez.
Orphan girl under the protection of a benefactor begins to suspect that her mother had an affair with him and that he's her father.
Frenetic rom-com about doctors overwhelmed with amorous female patients.
Macario Rubio
An exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land.
Shady characters try to buy the corner shop and destroy a decent family's livelihood.
A dizzy rich woman buys their horse, and three rubes get involved in the problems and intrigues brewing in her household.
Two small-town hell-raisers get so out of hand the authorities have to step in to rein them in.
Pio
The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.
Showbiz family is stressed when wife gets sick and husband starts paying attention to costar.
Chicote
Hero on horseback protects a family and their farm from human predators.
Two small-town hustlers are mistaken for government officials.
Nopal
A charro and his sidekick go to Spain to collect an inheritance.
Florentino
Remake of famous 1936 ranchera musical.
A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.
Romantic triangle during the Mexican Revolution.
A very ordinary little mook is manipulated into posing as a notorious bandit.
Cleofas
A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
Farmhand exploits his resemblance to a certain movie star to woo his employer's daughter.
Modesto
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
A crooked lawyer frustrates attempts to clear bandits from the local highways.
Young landowner wants to get married, but family problems are interfering with his plans.
Misogynist military asshole is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he learns all the needed life-lessons.
In rural Mexico, a young man competes with his best school friend for the love of a girl whose marriage has been arranged by her parents.
Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.
Feature-length version of a serial, originally in twelve chapters. Three-hour runtime, later re-edited into two 90 minute features called Las Calaveras Del Terror and Vuelven Las Calaveras Del Terror. Good guys vs bad guys for possession of a map showing the location of a lost mine.
Social Justice Warriors. On Horseback. Wearing Dia de los Muertos costumes.
Originally produced as a six-hour collection of serial chapters (1943), then edited down (1944) into a 3-hour feature... then re-released (1950s?) as two 90-minute features. The first one seems to have disappeared, this is the second one.
Refugio (Cuco) (as Chicote)
Farmhand moves to the city to be with his mother. He falls in love with the daughter of the rich family for whom she works as housekeeper, and decides to take advantage of his skill as a bullfighter to earn money and status enough to be able to court her.
El Chicote
Mexican movie
Pastelero
In times of the French Intervention, a student of Nunó, author of the Mexican National Anthem, falls in love with the niece of the French Ambassador, which causes quite amusing complications.
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Reynaldo
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
Third in a series; flashbacks remind us of the beef El Charro had with Carlos from his home town. While they move toward a final showdown, Carlos and his new evil buddy Rodolfo kill a couple more people just for kicks.
Rich city family is close to bankruptcy; rich country cousins come to visit.
Granny rules the roost, but little sister's a bit rebellious. She listens to Cuban music, she wears make-up, she goes out un-chaperoned... Granny sees her rubbing up against a married man and it shatters her health.
Lone Ranger style heroic adventure, number two in a four-movie series.
Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.
Baltasar
A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.
El Chicote
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
Ensemble-comedy set in a lower-middle-class apartment complex.
Adventure film directed by Carlos Véjar hijo.
Young woman's father, with the help of the boyfriend he prefers for her, spreads a rumor that the guy she likes better was already married.
Young man goes on the run after being falsely accused of killing his girlfriend's father.
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.
Bad dude tries to make time with a good dude's fiancée. When he can't get anywhere with her, he and his sidekick frame the good dude for a murder and a bunch of thefts.
