Xan das Bolas

Xan das Bolas

Birth : 1908-10-31, A Coruña, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

Death : 1977-10-13

History

Tomás Ares Pena, known as Xan das Bolas (30 October 1908 – 13 September 1977) was a Spanish comic actor active during the franquism with films including Botón de ancla (1961). Source: Article "Xan das Bolas" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Xan das Bolas

Movies

I Feel Strange
Cliente taberna
Laura is a pianist who leaves her home fed up with her abusive husband's mistreatment. Then she meets Marta, a vedette and television star with whom she will work on the preparation of her new show. From the moment Laura moves to Marta's home, the neighbors' gossips and rumours begin.
My Daughter Hildegart
Un republicano
Madrid 1933. Aurora Rodriguez kills her daughter Hildegart and turn herself over to the police. In jail she remember the circumstances that made her committing the crime...
Madrid, Costa Fleming
Marcelo
Sexy comedy.
A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión
Tabernero
A lieutenant and four others are having a little party before entering combat. Ensign has his girlfriend in a village occupied by the enemy, so it is essential a rescue mission
La Carmen
Padre de José
A young ex-seminarian named José is doing his military service in Córdoba. There he meets Carmen, a beautiful flamenco dancer who falls madly in love, to the point that he steals to get money for her, so he will be imprisoned. José does not support the separation and, when he is driven by the Civil Guard on a train, he runs off by jumping out the window. He then left for Madrid in search of Carmen, who now lives in the company of his uncle, the lame, master of dancers. The woman welcomes José coldly, although they engage in a strange and tense relationship behind the back of El Morao, her former pimp, who lives with her again (jsanchez, IMDb).
El chiste
Guardia forestal / Ganadero / Jefe indio
El segundo poder
Fray Lope
Los hijos de...
Barrendero
Volvoreta
Ramón
Sergio falls in love with Federica, the maid of the house whom everyone calls "Volvoreta" ("butterfly" in Galician). Aware of the situation, the mother of the young gentleman dismisses the maid, who has no choice but to go to the capital city. But Sergio's love is so strong that he will follow her wherever she goes.
Vuelve, querida Nati
Conserje
Doña Nati, the owner of a house of prostitutes, takes a little vacation to attend his niece's first communion in the village. She is accompanied on the trip by three of his pupils: Barbara, Mercedes and Eva who pretend to be her friends. But soon, men realize what they are and begin to try to flirt with them. Doña Nati makes a splendid gift to the people and thus wins the favor of its inhabitants.
Cry, Onion!
Sam - Merchant (uncredited)
Onion Jack (Franco Nero) has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
El mejor regalo
Invitado a la boda
The day of his wedding, Carlos recibes the most unexpected present he coud receive, a son. Carlitos, makes the weadding a complete disaster and fails to place. Carlos to solve the misunderstanding, decides to follow the boy home to meet his mother and to find out what is going on. This will bring him more than one surprise.
La boda o la vida
Elena is pregnant and Carlos, the future father does not have financial means to marry her. The solution is in a game show that offers substantial rewards to those who can correctly answer questions about the forties. Patricia, Elena's older sister, mobilizes the whole family. Carlos will undergo an intensive study plan.
Una pareja... distinta
Truhán
Zoraida is a single mother and bearded woman in a circus, while Charly works in transvestite shows. Together they will live a difficult and unusual love story.
Cuando los niños vienen de Marsella
Padre de José
Cinco almohadas para una noche
Recepcionista del Balneario Fuencaliente
Ana, a girl who is about to get married, discovers in her boyfriend's house a photograph in which her mother, dead at birth, and her future father-in-law appear in a very affectionate way.
Celos, amor y Mercado Común
Amigo de Felipe
Cut-Throats Nine
Buddy
A wagon load of convicts on their way to prison is being escorted through the mountains by a cavalry troop. They are attacked by a bandit gang, and only a sergeant, his beautiful young daughter and an assortment of seven sadistic, murderous prisoners survive, and they are left without horses or a wagon. The sergeant must find a way to get his prisoners to their destination while protecting his daughter, watching out for the still pursuing bandits and trying to determine which one of the prisoners was the man who raped and murdered his wife.
Delusions of Grandeur
Sheikh of the barbaresques (uncredited)
Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
Una chica casi decente
Cesar Martin, better known as El Duque, is an elegant, charming and intelligent man, who has been obliged to be known by heart the Penal Code, as their profession is the scam. Cesar has another weakness: his beautiful daughter Silvia is always a decent person.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Orsini's Assistant
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
El apartamento de la tentación
Forest Guard
Juliet and Alberto are a marriage in which peace reigns home. Mood surely be upset if Juliet suspecte that her her husband uses the vet who runs to assist clients instead of animals.
La montaña rebelde
Ermitaño
Abel Garrido, a doctor, returns to his hometown to stay. There he meets Mingo and his girlfriend Rita, and they become good friends. But when war comes in 1936, he must go and fight. The events that happen afterwards will take him to confront with Mingo.
Simón, contamos contigo
A Lady Called Andrew
Empleado de limpieza
From the Olymp the gods keep an eye on a married couple whose disputes are endangering the stability of their marriage. In order to repair the relationship they use unconventional methods...
Don erre que erre
Guardia Civil 1
Don Rodrigo goes to the bank and when he is going to take his money there is a robbery. Then the bank refuses to give him his money back (257 pesetas, a small amount of money) with the argument that the money was robbed to him, not to the bank. He will fight against the bank till the last consequences.
Sabata the Killer
Telegrafo
After giving a ride to a man who recently ripped-off his thieving business partner, Sabata and his buddy are unaware that a group of men have been hired to kill them and bring back the loot!
El mesón del gitano
Ezequiel
The young gypsy Peret and his friend Fidel are owners of an inn frequented by tourists. Peret orders the expansion of the business to a young decorator, who falls madly in love with him. Fifth feature by the Rumelo Peret, built for his brilliance, which here plays the owner of a tourist inn, a gypsy rumba singer whose songs will love both a young woman and her mother. A friendly comedy that has as its background the tourist boom of Spain in the late 1960
El alma se serena
Jefe de estación
Con ella llegó el amor
Huésped de la pensión
Juicio de faldas
Paco, amigo de Gregorio
Amor a todo gas
Cristobal
Dead Are Countless
Potter (uncredited)
Johnny was mentally traumatised when he witnessed as a child the killing of his father (a deserter) by a group of soldiers. As an adult he randomly kills every soldier he gets hold of, so that the army sends out the brutish Lieutenant Garringo to stop Johnny.
No somos ni Romeo ni Julieta
Policía secreta de noche 1º
Pasto de fieras
The orphan shepherd boy Tino loses his flock to save a lost sheep. After this event, he tries to embark for America.
Educando a una idiota
Eurico intends to make a film about the life of Queen Elizabeth the Catholic. He wants the beautiful Lola Vargas to star in it. But he does not have a refined enough education. He decides to appoint a teacher to improve her manners.
El niño y el potro (Más allá de río Miño)
Rogelio
Objetivo: BI-KI-NI
Camarero
In Cape Kennedy, a con man accidentally swallows a valuable microfilm, believing it a pill for heartburn. Parody of the James Bond films.
Cuidado con las señoras
Camarero
Henry is sent by his Aunt Nati to Madrid to begin practice as a doctor because seven years ago he finished his studies and has not yet worked. When he arrived, away from obey her aunt, decides to live together with his friend Mateo, a professional private detective. His first appearance as a doctor is to extend the death certificate of the husband of a beautiful woman that he meets on the road. The next day he sees, in a night club, the widow accompanied of the deceased. On being informed that the man is the administrator of the deceased, decides to solve the mystery with the help of his friend Matthew
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
A man gains access to a treasure map and persuades a guide to accompany him in his search to recover it. Both are pursued by bandits.
One by One
Bartender Ben (uncredited)
Bill learns that his father, during the American Civil War, was accused of theft and killed. Convinced of his innocence, Bill discovers the true robbers.
Los que tocan el piano
Rufino Celeiro - el Sereno
Cayetana, her boyfriend Paco and Venancio, her foster brother, commit small thefts and, from time to time, spend a few days in jail. Until they meet with Federico, a thief who has traveled abroad and convince them that using European methods success is guaranteed. Paco then decides to act scientifically and seizes a hospital surgical equipment. When they want to realize, poor Venancio is forced to give an injection to a dentistry patient and, even worse, Paco has to pull out a tooth. And all that, before entering the operating room
¡Cómo está el servicio!
Sereno con un bastón
Vicenta Verruguillo came to Madrid to work as a bridesmaid in the house of a doctor and falls in love with his son. The boy, to keep his family is left without service, follow the advice of his father and pretends to be in love with her. Meanwhile, his cousin Manolo, a likeable rogue, who works as a nurse, several maids dupes that get her salary every month because he has promised to buy a flat before marrying them.
Villa Rides
Villa's Telegraphist (uncredited)
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados and stealing women's hearts as they go. But each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand-man; and Villa must face possible betrayal by his own president's naiveté
Operation Mata Hari
Jefe de sala del cabaret
40 grados a la sombra
Portero casa de Evaristo
For eleven months a year, Evaristo, Máximo and Jacinto have only thought of one thing: summer vacations. Each one, in his own way, will try to deal with the forty degrees in the shadow of Madrid. Evaristo is a beach man and this year, as always, he approaches the coast with Filomena, his wife. The agglomerations to get a square meter of sand, the cakes in the chiringuito to eat the tortilla will be about to kill him. But it does not matter, September will come to rest from the summer. Maximum, on the contrary, is of the mountain. And this year he has rented a villa for himself and his family, including mother-in-law. Finally, Jacinto, owner of a gym, has sent his wife and children to Benidorm, while he remains "rodríguez" in the capital,
Operación cabaretera
Guardia
Your job as a hostess in Malaga allows Hippolyta meet many men. One of them is a Chinese traveler, just in time to take her to her room, is killed. So, the blame falls on another Hippolyta customers.
Run Like a Thief
Gonzalez
The theft of a fortune in diamonds and the attempt by soldier of fortune Johnny Dent to outwit his pursuers who would stop at nothing to get their hands on the treasure forms the story-line. The chase reaches across the continent as Dent eludes the diamond syndicate police, a ruthless gangster, and a scheming girl in his attempt to escape.
Vestida de novia
Camarero gallego
Club de solteros
Lucas
La niña del patio
Don Calixto, administrador
An orphan child arrives at a house courtyard where the neighbours must organise a flamenco show to avoid the house from being sold by its owner...
Clint the Stranger
Simpson
In CLINT THE STRANGER (CLINT EL SOLITARIO), also widely known as CLINT THE NEVADA'S LONER, Martin plays Clint Harrison, a gunfighter who has been on the run from a vengeful family for years. He returns to his home town to discover that his wife (Marianne Koch of FISTFUL OF DOLLARS fame) has taken his son and fled north to escape his unsavory reputations. Following her in an attempt to make amends, he rides into the middle of a land-grab war between a group of desperate farmers and an unscrupulous rancher named Shannon (Walter Byrnes from THE BIG GUNDOWN) and his brutal foreman (the always reliable Fernando Sancho). Promising his wife that he won't use this gun, Clint must stand by as Shannon's men eliminate the farmer's in a series of well-staged set pieces calculated to make the audience anticipate the inevitable moment when Clint is forced to turn his guns and settle accounts.
Two Crosses in Danger Pass
Bartender
Judy and Alex are the only two survivors of a punishment mission ordered by the rich and ruthless Moran... The girl becomes his maid and the boy is adopted by a Quaker family. Alex, in spite of the pardon philosophy taught to him, is planning a revenge.
The Tough One
Padre O’Hara
Fray Torero
Un habitante del pueblo
La mujer perdida
Sara is the daughter of a fisherman. She leaves her small village but she goes to Madrid to work as a flamenco singer in a club
Agente Logan - missione Ypotron
Il portiere dell'hotel
Agent Lemmy Logan is investigating the case of a missing NASA scientist and discovers that an ex nazi is developing a new super weapon.
Lost Command
Old Man with Flag (uncredited)
After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.
Seven Guns for the MacGregors
Barman (uncredited)
Ranch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell horses. They get into trouble with local people who are related with evil Santillana. After getting imprisoned and losing their horses they decide to go after Santillana's gang.
Proceso a una estrella
A celebrated cabaret singer, Rosa Lucena, is accused of killing Miguel, her dance partner. She is arrested, but not finding sufficient evidence of guilt, the judges decide to investigate her past, when Rosa and Miguel acted in a theater in Madrid and she fellin love with a young doctor, leaving his career for him. This situation has a direct impact on Miguel, which fails miserably with the withdrawal of his partner.
Eroe vagabondo
Italian melodrama
In a Colt's Shadow
Veterinarian
A story about two gunfighters, Duke and Steve. Steve is in love with Duke's daughter but Duke disapproves of the match, envisioning a life of hardship and danger for the girl if she marries Steve..
Whisky y vodka
Pintor
Los cuatreros
Pedro, the Mexican
A band of fierce rustlers is ravaging the region of Las Cruces. Appears an outsider who saves the ranch owner "The Spur" of being kidnapped by members of the band. Thankfully, he was appointed foreman, and his daughter is in love with him. But things are not what they seem and there are murky intrigues in the background.
Amador
Limpiabotas
After killing his girl friend, Ana, Amador (a dark and strange man) joins his family (which he can't stand) in Torremolinos, where he gets involved in the assassination of a foreigner woman. It is also in Torremolinos, where Amador meets Laura, a woman who falls in love with him...
Dos chicas locas locas
Guarda de la estación de tren
A millionaire leaves all his fortune to his older granddaughter. But his two granddaughters are twins and nobody knows who's the older one is.
Mi canción es para ti
Propietario caballos de carreras
Cotolay
Monje
A loose retelling of the 13th century Galician legend of the boy Cotolay who helped three pilgrims establish the Convent of San Francisco near Santiago de Compostela.
Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
Peon
Wyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain and to save a mine owner from robbery.
Los dinamiteros
Marmolista
Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect their pension, an opportunity they take advantage of to talk about life. When they learn that the old don Felipe, an acquaintance, is very sick and is alone and without money for a decent funeral, they decide to ask for a loan to help him, but, as they do not grant it, they decide to rob the savings bank. To do this, they will plan everything thoroughly and manufacture a homemade explosive.
The Palomos
Taxi driver
Emilio and Virtudes Palomo are invited by Don Alberto, Emilio's boss, to a dinner at his chalet. Don Alberto, who confuses simplicity with stupidity, intends to frame the Palomos for a crime he has committed.
El pecador y la bruja
Portero
The Spy
Poker Player
The Rash One
Paco is the boy buttons a luxury hotel. Usually do small businesses with the resale of tickets to bullfights tourists. By a misunderstanding is fired from his job. There is no use of his taste and wanders the Victoria Street taverns. Finally discovers his only chance in bulls, easy craft that believes and loves. The reality is very different and has to accept the truth which manifests itself in a very dramatic.
Backfire
Guard of the boat parking
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.
Black Angel of the Mississippi
Lopez
Early Spanish western. Ramon Torrado’s westerns remain among the most obscure ones. Of his four westerns, all shot around 1964.
Strange Voyage
Cosme
In a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish personality, live under the shadow of their bossy older sister, Ignacia, a grumpy old maid.
Death Whistles the Blues
Policía
Vogel, an important trafficker, betrayed two of his accomplices, Castro and Smith. The first was shot by police, while the latter was imprisoned. Fifteen years later, Vogel adopted a new identity and moved to Jamaica with his wife, Linda. Smith comes back for revenge but Vogel sends his henchmen to kill him.
Gunfighters of Casa Grande
Vasco (uncredited)
In this western, a gambler wins a big Mexican ranch and decides to herd all of the cattle upon it into Texas. The crook enlists the aide of a few Mexicans, but they don't realize he plans to cheat them. En route, the cattle drivers are ambushed by banditos. They survive, but during the course of the struggle, the cattle hands learn the truth and ensure that justice gets served.
Como dos gotas de agua
Martínez
The lawyer Angela Goñi is working in two cases at once: an man that wants to take to Pilo, a young orphan, tp a protection child school. And Mili, another young woman neglected by his father, a businessman, whose aunt Teresa wants to claim through the courts. Taking advantage of the amazing similarity between the girls, the lawyer makes many things to try to resolve the situation as happy as possible.
La chica del gato
Venancio
Guadalupe is an orphan as a child by Eulalio host and Euphrasia, who incite to steal and commit crimes. She opposes and decides to leave the house to avoid it in the company of a goldfinch and his trusty cat. The girl comes to live independently but failures will accumulate, until he accidentally meets Baby, a lady of good family, and among them emerges a sincere friendship.
Heroes of the West
Doctor
Two stage robbers impersonate the heirs to a gold mine but end up defending the families they intended to rip-off.
La carga de la policía montada
Two men pretend to the same woman in a fort located in the wilds of Canada. Also, one of them will be the object of desire of an Indian girl.
Relevo para un pistolero
Recepcionista del hotel
A stranger from Boston offers a notorious Arizona outlaw a job he can’t refuse.
The Ceremony
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.
Un demonio con ángel
Don Federico
La revoltosa
Jugador de cartas
Mari Pepa, a beautiful laundress of Madrid, and Felipe, a carpenter, are in love but they are always quarreling over trifles. However, she must marry with the fence Don Leo to help his father, a drunk player who has committed a robbery and has determined the family jewels.
Fair of the Virgin of La Paloma
Francisco, el sereno
Life goes quietly in a traditional neighborhood of Madrid. Two beautiful girls, Susana and Casta, trade workers in the area, accepting mature attentions of a pharmacist, Don Hilarion. This affection dislike the young Julian, who is in love with Susan. Third movie version of the famous zarzuela by Tomas Breton. With musical arrangements by Gregorio Garcia Segura, the film tries to update the original story to fit the Madrid of the 60's.
Bochorno
Chica para todo
Gancho del Timador
An Almost Decent Girl
Propietario bar
An almost decent girl is a German-Spanish Romance of Ladislao Vajda from 1963. In Spain he was entitled Una chica casi formal on.
Escala en Hi-Fi
The Swindlers
Antonio Monterosi (segment "Medico i fidanzata")
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.
The Adventures of Scaramouche
Gino
Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about the birth mark on his shoulder...
Gunfight at Red Sands
Barber
An avenging stranger guns down a gang of ruthless bandits in revenge for the murder of his family.
The Executioner
Guardian of the Work
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
Pacto de silencio
Guardia del tren
Implacable Three
Cartero
Guzman, a rich U.S. landowner is forced to leave for a short time, leaving his pregnant wife alone in the ranch. That night, a group of bandits, believing that the house is empty, enters with the purpose of stealing. She surprises them and they kill her. When Guzman returns, he finds in the fingers of his dead wife the tie pin of the murderer. Then, with the help of a Portuguese and a Mexican friends,he begins his revenge.
El precio de un asesino
Cura
The Castilian
Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual mid-1960s "tax shelter" international cast. Broderick Crawford plays a despotic 10th century Spanish king who, in cahoots with the invading Moors, has banished handsome Castilian nobleman Spartaco Santoni. With the surreptitious aid of Crawford's daughter Teresa Velasquez, Santoni assembles an army to march against the Moors. In keeping with the 13th century epic poem from which this film was derived ("El Poema de Fernan Gonzales") Santoni's path is smoothed by the celestial intervention of patron saints Milan and Santiago. Among the big names picking up a few tax-free dollars in The Castilian are Cesar Romero, Linda Darnell, Alida Valli and Fernando Rey.
Sign of Zorro
Mejicano
General Gutierrez, the evil governor of Mexico, terrorizes the people and demands high taxes. The young Ramon Martiney, after discovering that his father was murdered by Gutierrez, dons the mask of Zorro and starts fighting against the injustice.
El turista
Atracador
Girl from La Mancha
Carretero
The story of Dulcinea, the love of Don Quixote, who was only a normal girl named Aldonza that is suddenly involved by the legend of the brave and ingenous gentleman.
Plaza de Oriente
Camarero
Mathias Sandorf
Carpena
José María
Coronel
Biography of the famous bandit El Tempranillo, acting with impunity in Sierra Morena during the reign of Ferdinand VII.
El camino
Padre de Germán
A sharp, sly portrait of small-town life dominated by a conservative church seeking to police community morals.
Jaguar
Lugarteniente del llanero
A murderous villain takes over a family's ranch, killing everyone but the youngest son, still a toddler, who is rescued by a faithful servant. The son grows up and becomes The Jaguar, a bandit who along with his gang robs the corrupt rulers of the town and gives to the church. Trouble brews when he falls in love with the daughter of the villainous magistrate.
The Shadow of Zorro
Empleado de banca
A battle between revolutionary Mexicans and the U.S. cavalry brings Zorro onto the scene to enact vengeance for violent acts incurred by the cavalry Sergeant. Once the Sergeant is killed, Don Jose de la Torre retires from being Zorro and settles down to live a quiet life. The brother of the Sergeant, in an act of his own justice, dons the costume of Zorro and terrorizes the countryside. In an act to draw out the true Zorro, the imposter kidnaps Don Jose's wife, making him once again don the mask to rescue her.
3 Fables of Love
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.
The Big Family
(uncredited)
Two Against All
Wagon Loader (uncredited)
Two brothers, Bull and Jonathan Bullivan, witness the murder of bandit Black Boy who had been terrorizing Golden City. The bandit had been put in place by the city mayor, who wants the local residents to leave so that he can keep their land, where there is oil. The two brothers eat a chicken that has been fed with a strong tonic and they become sort of invincible for a few minutes. The mayor, pressured by the villagers, appoints the Bullivan Brothers as sheriffs and tasks them with the arrest of Black Boy.
I motorizzati
(uncredited)
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
Tierra brutal
Cantinero pedro
This Western is set in the Mexican valley of Sonora not that far south of the state of Arizona. It's just after the American Civil War, and a former Confederate officer, Mike Summers (Don Taylor) has taken refuge in a small town in the valley. He has married and is hoping to live in peace the rest of his life. Instead, he and his wife and the rest of the town are suffering the depredations of a brutal gunman, Danny Pose (Alex Nicol), and his gang of outlaws. Summers holds off picking up a gun because of his personal vow of non-violence. But the situation deteriorates and a new ally comes into the picture, Steve Fallon (Richard Basehart), a wandering gunslinger who may not be able to handle the bad guys alone.
Those Who Did Not Go to War
Propietario bar Fandiño
First World War. In a largely rural area of neutral Spain, two families confront one another and play a part in embarrassing situations because they don't support the same side in the war. This will influence the breakup of an engagement.
The Son of Captain Blood
Matt
The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.
Placido
Rivas - The Administrator
In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple mission that will not be easy for him to accomplish.
Zorro the Avenger
Soldado
Don Jose disguises himself as Zorro, the masked freedom fighter, who tries to protect his people from the wrath of an evil military officer who is using his position to his own advantage.
Vamos a contar mentiras
Sacerdote
Torrejón City
Ojo de Halcón
Tom Rodriguez, a young cowboy, arrives in Torrejón City. However in Torrejón City the unsuspecting Tom is mistaken for the famous outlaw Tim El Malo and the people want to lynch him.
Martes y trece
Invitado con botella
Lola and Maria are two Spanish young ladies engaged to Franz and Pepe, all so eager to spend their honeymoon that the moment seems never to come, as all sorts of problems pave their way.
Madame
Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.
Pecado de amor
Sereno
Nun Belen works as a spiritual guide in a women's prison. Is a very understanding woman, possibly due to her past. At the past she was Magda, the star of the cabaret "The Mill of Twenty." She was attractive, young and admired by the public, she had it all, but three very different men end up marking her destination. A fate that is inexorably opposed to her happiness.
Fray Escoba
El pobre García
Felipe
García is employed of advertising at a factory of razor blades and goes out in secret with Conchita, the daughter of the director. One day, taking advantage of the cycle return to Spain, García puts into practice a new and risky system of making him an advertising, but Raúl, the director, dismisses García because he didn´t like the idea. From here, García will gain the life himself in the most varied works: barber, bootblack and guide of the Prado Museum. A difficult situation in order that his former chief accepts the relation that it supports with his daughter.
Fantasmas en la casa
Pascasio
A young playwright meets a girl he was once in love with. The young woman lives in terror in a supposedly haunted mansion, so she feels on the verge of madness…
Revolt of the Mercenaries
Katia's Companion
Duchess Patrizia is determined to marry, although against her will, effeminate but powerful Prince Stefano. This is the only way she has found to thwart the plans of Count Keller, her aggressive neighbor, who wants to grab her land.
¡Aquí están las vicetiples!
Dueño Kiosco
Carmen, Merche and Paula are three young singers living in the same pension. Every night are forced to dodge men arriving from Madrid in search of adventure. They are assisted by Don Narciso, a fellow board that has solutions for everything. What I really want is to get married and all three have found a boyfriend, but every couple has their problems.
Il conquistatore di Maracaibo
Ben Yussuf (uncredited)
Alan Braves, captain of a pirate ship, is, by the treachery of a comrade, accused of a crime of which he is innocent. He decides to go to America, but during his trip, he finds a Spanish galleon that saved from attack by pirates, and escorting the galleon to Maracaibo. Braves is first received with full honors for saving a Spanish ship but after that is reported to the Governor, Braseeur, the pirate traitor. It is, therefore, arrested and sentenced to death from the visualization of torture ...
La venganza de don Mendo
Alí
Don Mendo, Marquess of Cabra, gallant and dashing knight of medieval Castilian, is also a virtuous mandoline player and a specialist in climbing towers. But he has a bad run, all played and all lost at seven-thirty (card game), and lost his honor playing in his latest escalation of love to the apartment of his beloved and beautiful Magdalena. Don Nuño Manso de Jarama, father of Magdalena, has pledged the hand of his daughter to the Duke of Toro, and surprises Don Mendo in the room of Magdalena. To save the honor of his beloved one, Don Mendo says that no love has led him to the Tower, but he has climbed to steal. Magdalena is clean of all suspicion, and he is condemned to die buried in the castle wall. The Marquess of Moncada and other noble gentlemen, all friends of Don Mendo, facilitate his escape.
Punto y banca
Ella y los veteranos
Dueño caseta de tiro
El indulto
Músico ambulante
Spain, 1906: in a small village and pregnant after having been raped, Antonia is forced to marry the brutal Lucas to save her honor. But the mother of the girl pays Lucas 20,000 reales so that the man will never get any closer to Antonia or the child to be born. The man's bad temper will take him to jail and Antonia will try to remake his life with Pedro, Luca's brother. However, despite how far they may go, the couple are distressed at the prospect of Lucas being pardoned and seeking them after leaving prison.
Un paso al frente
Román
Rafael, Miguel and Gabriel are three boys of different social status, who come to the call of the Flags of Hunters Parachute enroll in their ranks. Between them comes a great friendship and starring a host of incidents, until Rafael starts a relationship with Milagros, an attractive girl of Alcala.
The Boy Who Stole a Million
Knife Grinder
A boy gets involved in a bank robbery
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who have countless demands and wishes.
Ama Rosa
Cochero
Rosa gives birth to a child who, by circumstances of life, is given for adoption to a wealthy family who lost theirs during childbirth. Soon, Rosa will be working for the new family of his son and, so, without anyone knowing, will give him all her love.
Crimen para recién casados
Train Waiter
Antonio and Elisa, a newlywed couple, go to an hotel on the beach to spend their honeymoon. Antonio, a crime reporter, is obsessed with discovering a major crime. He gets his big opportunity when a murder is committed on a road near the hotel.
El hombre que perdió el tren
Federico Méndez
Poison at 2:30
Hombre en consulta veterinario
Don Senen has spent inheritance Begoña sprees, his niece, who only had to administer. It remains to receive a million pesetas, which will only be delivered to the death of Don Senen. The old man, in complicity with Begoña and two nephews going to fake his death by a false certificate. What you may not know is that some of his relatives did not want it to be false and plan to poison him.
El gafe
Sobrino de D. Balbino #2
The lion from Babylon
Abdullah (uncredited)
In the ruins of Nim Bis Rub, in Babylon, is a band of smugglers den. There goes Nemsi Kara Ben and his faithful friend. One night, while camping, they surprise three smugglers and, after a hard-fought struggle, manage to reduce them and take possession of the rings that are their trademark. Then they go to Baghdad and there, a character who wears a ring of smugglers, which has seen Kara's, confuses him with one of the band.
Sonatas
Tercer centinela
In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
Streetcar for Sale
Marmolista
This excellent short film written by the magnificent filmmaker duo of Luis García Berlanga and screenwriter Rafael Azcona was to be part of a series entitled Los Pícaros (The Rogues) which was never continued. These two artists were responsible for such masterpieces of Spanish cinema as Plácido and El verdugo (The Executioner). Here, Berlanga and Azcona collaborated for the first time, setting the stage for the post-war "Berlanguiana" vision that would develop. José Luis López Vázquez plays Julián, a seedy swindler, who with his cronies tries to sell a streetcar to a rich but naive farmer, a newcomer to the city. High jinx ensue. With this film begins the great stage of Berlanga's filmmaking in which he mixes a little social criticism and notes of anti-clericalism with a great deal of farce.
La vida alrededor
Demetrio Suárez 'El Asunción'
Josephine and Antonio have reached a delicate economic balance after marriage. The salary of lawyer from him, and wins her in the hospital, allows them to survive and fantasize about some freak. The situation is complicated by the news that Josephine is pregnant. Ahead of the debacle that may involve having a "child who eats everything, including food," Josephine teaches the baby still in her womb, higher education courses in order to save some money in schools. Meanwhile, Antonio enters the underworld scene, looking for customers who offer their services as a lawyer.
Blame Me
A Mexican steer rancher goes to Spain to get some bulls he bought but that were never delivered. He meets a flamenco dancer during his stay in Madrid and falls for her.
Diez fusiles esperan
Cañete
During the first Carlist war in the 1830s in Spain a lieutenant falls into the enemy's hands and is arrested. When condemned, he claims he only wanted to see his newborn baby.
The Redeemer
El redentor (original title)
¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII?
Madrileño gritón (uncredited)
Alfonso de Borbón and his cousin María de las Mercedes de Orleans fall in love and, although both families do not maintain good relationships, young people marry when Alfonso became king of Spain.
Die Sklavenkarawane
Hassan (uncredited)
Heiß brennt die Sonne. Eine Karawane schleppt sich durch die trostlose Wüste am oberen Nil. Nicht nur die Hitze macht den erschöpften Reisenden zu schaffen. Der gefürchtete Sklavenjäger Abu el Mot überfällt den Troß und verschleppt die Reisenden, darunter Kara Ben Nemsi, seinen treuen Begleiter Hadschi Halef Omar, den schrulligen Gelehrten Ignaz Pfotenhauer und den englischen Forscher Sir David Lindsay. Kara Ben Nemsi kann mit Hadschi Halef fliehen. Um Hilfe zu holen, machen sie sich auf einen langen Weg voller unwegsamer Abenteuer…
Anna Said Yes
Don Cristino
Juan does not have a cent but lives beautifully. His nights of revelry and cabaret are famous in the night city environments. As heir to his old and very rich uncle Don Patricio, lives subsidized by creditors on account of his future inheritance. But John keeps a terrible secret: he has long been disinherited. When a telegram arrives announcing the death of the uncle, Juan returns to the family home in the Costa Brava. There he meets Anna, a wonderful woman who is the current heir to the family fortune.
Life Ahead
Copiloto de la camioneta
Finished their careers of Law and Medicine, respectively, Antonio Redondo and Josefina Castro, a pair of young Spanish newlyweds, are looking for work to buy an apartment and start a life together, but they will face enormous difficulties throughout the process.
El puente de la paz
Dedos Largos
Héroes del aire
Percebe
Vengeance
Segador gallego
After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, John is free. He is determined to kill Luis "The Twisted", which believes that is the blame for his misfortunes, but as he needs money, he has no choice than to work for their enemy.
El hombre del paraguas blanco
Alguacil #1
Those times of the cuplé
Tendero
Mercedes Pavón, a famous singer of cuplés is harassed by three men totaly different.
Familia provisional
Stories from Madrid
Ciriaco - guarda del cementerio (uncredited)
Dawn in Madrid. In the Plaza de la Cibeles begins the daily grind. The statue of the goddess, from its source in the center of the square tells the story of a man, petty speculator, owner of an old building that is going to ask Saint Nicholas for his cooperation to make it sink, and thus be able to lift a twelve-story modern building. But the inhabitants of the block have also implored the Saint to prevent this from happening.
Farmacia de guardia
Sereno
A Pharmacy on night duty is the location for all kinds of episodes that one might imagine to happen in any night in Spain in the fifties.
Las muchachas de azul
Felipe - padre de Ana
Serving the customers of a department store, the salesgirls in their blue uniform go out of their way to serve them. But in their young minds, one idea surpasses all: the hunt for a husband. Ana is in love with Juan, who seems to be very well in his condition of single. Olga has aspirations of the highest level, as her boyfriend must own a great car. Pilar aims to win a radio contest. And there is also Álvaro, the lawyer whose only cause capable of defending, and even with a resounding failure, is the freedom of the bachelor.
El anónimo
Un marido de ida y vuelta
Díaz
Adaptation of the eponymous play of Jardiel Poncela. A husband dominated by his overbearing wife dies victim of a heart attack the day she forces him to shave his beloved beard to go to a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter. Its spectrum then begins to walk around the house and the most unexpected cause tangles. When she finally decides to settle definitely get materialize and get his wife, who has meanwhile become a being sweet and understanding.
Fulano y Mengano
Conductor del coche fúnebre
Eudosio and Carlos were imprisoned by mistake. Now out of prison, are trying to get a job and to adapt to a society that rejects them.
The Pride and the Passion
(uncredited)
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.
Faustina
Lipio
A conquering woman of love, power, and fame is challenged by the devil, as he too wants to conquer all. Even the devil learns that there is no wrath like a woman’s scorn.
Un fantasma llamado amor
El hombre que viajaba despacito
Jugador de cartas
A tank regiment soldier needs a permit to go to his village to meet his newborn son. It will not be easy, leading to absurd situations featuring the legendary humorist Miguel Gila.
Susanna and Me
Bedel
An expulsive star of a variety theatre cannot decide between the love of an honest archaeology professor and the love of an extravagant official who turns himself into a cabaret comedian in his sparetime.
Piedras vivas
Dos novias para un torero
Saeta rubia
Taxista
Some urchins simulate an accident and steal a wallet. To their surprise, it turns out to be that of the famous footballer Alfredo Di Stefano, popularly known as "La Saeta Rubia". Driven by the admiration for their idol, the urchins decide to return it. At this time, Di Stefano and his wife establish a great friendship with the guys and project together the creation of the football team "Saeta".
Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
(uncredited)
Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.
La mestiza
The Wicked Carabel
Bedel
Since he wants get married, the young Carabel, who is employed in a real estate agent, decides to ask their bosses for a raise in order to maintain his future wife. However, all he gets is to be fired. He then realizes that honesty is what has led him to unemployment and decides to change his life and live outside the law. He plots to steal the safe from his former company
El fenómeno
Guardia del Parque
A professor at the University of Frankfurt is mistaken for a Russian soccer player on his arrival at Madrid airport. There, he is received as a sports figure and the teacher, unaware of the confusion, take it as an extraordinary compliment. However, problems arise when, after discovering the error, the professor has to pretend to be the player until he appears
Curra Veleta
Sereno
Pasión en el mar
El Sabio
A young fisherman wishing for a better life will become a smuggler and even involve his friends if necessary. He will make it even worse with his improper concern for his brother's beautiful wife.
There is oil here!
Baldomero
In a Spanish town that has been dying of thirst for years, some Americans who claim to be experts in oil prospecting say that there is oil. Considering the evidence of the treasure that encloses his subsoil, the owner will asks the shelter of one of the rich man of the town so that he decides.
El rey de la carretera
Pedro
A bus driver, Rafael, sacrifices his carriage and his true love, Rosario, to get money and buy a more powerful vehicle. This is all due to the rivalry he has with Peter, also bus driver with whom competes in all areas.
Afternoon at the Bulls
Portero de la enfermería
Right-handers Ricardo Puente, Juan Carmona and Rondeño II, which will take the alternative are advertised in the poster. The first is an old bullfighter, famous in the past, as now, bitter and full of rancor, lives with Paloma, a woman who is not resigned to continue to be the lover of a man who has fallen into oblivion. Carmona, the Bullfighter of fashion, has a major contract to fight in America, but his wife Isabel wants to reject the offer. Ana Maria, the sister of Carmona, hopes that his brother adopted its relations with Rondeno II; but Carmona was opposed because considers it it a bad Bullfighter
Pride
Gabriel
A tale of two families, the Mendozas and Alzagas, faced for generations by the water of a river separating their adjoining properties. Old grudges reappear when the two heirs fall in love.
Un día perdido
Maestro de baile
Noche de tormenta
Radio Stories
Sargento de la guardia civil
Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need money, a thief who answers a phone call while robbing and a child who needs to go to Sweden for an operation are the protagonists of these stories around the radio.
Para siempre
El guardián del paraíso
Sereno
A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover.
The Coyote
California, 1848. An invading army has defeated the few opposing forces and the territory has become part of the United States. Don César de Echagüe, an old gentleman, begs his son César to return from Europe, confident that he will know how to confront the oppressor.
La Cruz de Mayo
Félix
Coral is a girl who works in a Seville ceramics factory to raise her family, but her greatest illusion is to sing. She is chosen for her good voice and qualities to go to an art academy. That's the beginning of a great success in her career and an advantageous contract.
La reina mora
Presidiario
During the April Fair in Seville neighborhood of Santa Cruz, Antonio, in love with Coral, will meet Esteban, her boyfriend. The end result is that Antonio is hurt and Esteban goes to prison. To avoid gossip, Coral asks his brother of moving. Cotufo agrees and the two move to a mansion in which, according to legend, lived a Christian and the daughter of a Moorish king, who died of grief of love.
Tres eran tres
(segment "Una de indios")
An anthology film centered around a film company called Tiacapa.
La ciudad de los sueños
Love on Wheels
Cristóbal
A taxi driver participates in a singing contest of a radio station for non-professionals and enters the final round. Being among the finalists he meets at the radio station a famous singer and falls in love with her.
The Devil Plays the Flute
Presidente
When the pieces of a singular figure are unearthed and then joined together, a devil of the lowest category breaks into a small Mediterranean village. From that moment on, the demon will enter the life of a painter named Bernardino, in the affairs of a "modern" marriage, in the existence of a frightened gardener and, finally, in the day-to-day life of the Great Momo.
Hollyhock
Barrabás
Malvaloca, dancer and singer, go to Las Canteras when she finds out that Salvador, her exboyfriend has been hurt. Salvador's college, Leonardo, goes with her and falls in love. They start a relation.
Good news
Alguacil
Beliche, a naive postman, suffers from depression because he has almost no letters to deliver. The neighbors to whom Beliche takes their correspondence decide then to launch a plan to receive many more.
Tres huchas para Oriente
Portero del estadio (uncredited)
Pedro Manolo and Juan, three naughty and full of enthusiasm children go out with their piggy banks collecting money for missions. Near the end of the day, a car ran over one of them and is driven to a nearby hospital. The head of school, not knowing which of the children was injured calls the parents of the three to attend the health center. In parallel, we know the story of the three families. In the upper-class family, the father will leave his mother for another woman, in the middle class one, one sister invites her boyfriend to lunch and family revolutionizes and, finally, in that of lower class, the boy's father is about to be complicit in a crime
Vuelo 971
Padre
Nadie lo sabrá
Cartero
Airport
Sereno
Different kind of people arrives to Madrid airport. Some goes with their heads and others just landed. Fernando is a pilot who he brings a girl for his relatives. Ceferino and his wife have won a contest and will travel soon to Paraguay and they are there because they want to know the airplane. Mr. Beltran is very nervous because he returned to Spain after many years of exile.
La alegre caravana
Titiritero
Miguel, a young adventurer with a good social position, flees his home to prevent his marriage qith a woman chosen by his family. In their flight is hidden in a gypsy caravan merchants. There he meets Rocío, a beautiful young woman with an extraordinary voice. Michael will be involved in the events of the troupe and incorporated into the show, going from town to town.
Sobresaliente
Ha desaparecido un pasajero
Niebla y sol
Meigo
Venice Film Festival 1951
The Girl at the Inn
Dimas
Juan Luis and Dimas arrive to the "Venta del Catite", a tavern run by Rafael and his goddaughter Reyes. The tavern is frequented by tuna fishermen in the region, but in reality it is a cover for smuggling. Rafael decides to hire a beautiful singer, Raquel, to distract customers and the two new arrivals, so that he can do his business without being disturbed.
The Great Galeoto
Cochero
A young musician and dreamy, called "Ernesto", is forced to live in Madrid to die his father, in the house of executor of the testament, "don Julio Villamil", who is married to actress Teresa Labisbal, of which "Ernesto Acedo" was enamored platonic. Although the conduct of the young is flawless, a third person causes slander which oblige "don Julio" to fight in mourning to death.
Doubt
Sereno (uncredited)
A newly remarried widow is accused of having murdered her first husband, who died from arsenical poisoning. Being her present husband a lawyer he takes charge of her defense.
Air Lashings
Pepiño
Alberto, "Zanahoria" and "Jabato" are three students of the Parachute School. They are the "lashing the air," friends, good partners but rivals and competitive in love. When they see Nati, a beautiful woman who falls in love with Alberto, jealousy will lead to situations that jeopardize their great friendship.
Historia en dos aldeas
Tiempos felices
Yo no soy la Mata-Hari
Don Cosme Fernández
After the execution of the spy Mata-Hari, the secret service takes the opportunity to arrest some of her collaborators. To arrest one of the ringleaders, they use his girlfriend Niní, a naive dancer. The girl, tired of being manipulated by everyone, decides to become agent X25.
Sabela De Cambados
Benito
The Marquis of Salamanca
Hombre almacén figuras de cera
José de Salamanca was arguably one of the most influential figures of the Spanish 1800s. This films tells his story.
Botón de ancla
Trinquete
Marín, Galicia, Spain. Carlos, José Luis and Enrique, three good friends and final year students in the Naval Academy, argue due to love issues.
Pototo, Boliche y Compañía
Heroes del 95
Fadeiro
Mar abierto
Peirán
Carmiña, an old Galician woman, tells a painter a story of her youth, when a miracle saved the life of her beloved Antonio.
El doncel de la reina
El pirata Bocanegra
Cayetano
Un hombre de negocios
Conserje del museo
El pozo de los enamorados
Ella, él y sus millones
El guía
Arturo Salazar is a powerful businessman who wants to be related to the nobility, so he asks an aristocratic friend to find him a blue-blooded bride.
La vida empieza a medianoche
Regidor del teatro
Silvia Heredia, since her arrival to Madrid is staying at her best friends' house, Mary. Her aim is to work as a secretary of a famous novelist. But at night the house is full of people and they confuse her with the owner of the floor. A series of misunderstandings makes her meet Ricardo Ariaga, the musician whose opera "Life begins at midnight" is about to debut. Ricardo convinces Sylvia to act as his wife. With a "rented" child they try to be the perfect family of a lonely old man.
Tuvo la culpa Adán
Guardia
Nora leaves the convent where she has been raised to marry a relative. Just arrived she has an accident resulting in total amnesia. Her identity mistaken a new life begins for her, where she will encounter love, adventure and even crime.
La rueda de la vida
Juanito
Madrid de mis sueños
Goyescas
Asistente
We Were Seven at the Table
El hombre que se quiso matar
Huésped
Unos pasos de mujer
Torbellino
Juan José
Carmen, a young Sevillian woman who wants to succeed on the radio, arrives at a decrepit station that goes through bad times. Thanks to her, the radio station will get a much quoted prize.
Stowaway on Board!
Alguacil
Salomé