Hugo Fregonese

Hugo Fregonese

Birth : 1908-04-08, Mendoza, Argentina

Death : 1987-01-17

History

Hugo Geronimo Fregonese (April 8, 1908 in Mendoza – January 11, 1987 in Tigre) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter who worked both in Hollywood and his home country.

Profile

Hugo Fregonese

Movies

Beyond the Sun
Script
Biographic film about the pioneer of argentine aviation Jorge Newbery.
Beyond the Sun
Director
Biographic film about the pioneer of argentine aviation Jorge Newbery.
Vení conmigo
The Bad Life
Story
A look at the Buenos Aires underworld and its protagonists: the pimps, the prostitutes, the madams, and the politicians.
The Bad Life
Director
A look at the Buenos Aires underworld and its protagonists: the pimps, the prostitutes, the madams, and the politicians.
Assignment Terror
Co-Director
Aliens from a dying world plot to conquer earth by praying on man's superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various earth monsters, including the werewolf, Frankenstein's monster, the mummy Tao-Tet, and the vampire Count de Meirhoff.
Find a Place to Die
Producer
An outcast Confederate soldier protects a woman from bandits trying to steal her gold mine.
Find a Place to Die
Screenplay
An outcast Confederate soldier protects a woman from bandits trying to steal her gold mine.
Find a Place to Die
Story
An outcast Confederate soldier protects a woman from bandits trying to steal her gold mine.
Savage Pampas
Writer
An Army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang.
Savage Pampas
Director
An Army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang.
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
Director
The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.
Old Shatterhand
Director
Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.
Un momento muy largo
The romance between a nuclear physicist and a translator for the United Nations.
Marco Polo
Director
Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.
Harry Black and the Tiger
Director
In the mysterious jungle of India, Harry Black, a skilled hunter, hunts a dangerous tiger which attacked. This tiger has already claimed hundreds of victims. While recovering from his wounds will review the most important moments of his life.
Seven Thunders
Director
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
The Wanderers
Director
Story of a family of wandering puppet makers and the destiny which rules their fate.
The King's Thief
Director
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
Black Tuesday
Director
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.
The Raid
Director
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
Man in the Attic
Director
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?
Blowing Wild
Director
Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.
Decameron Nights
Director
Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.
Untamed Frontier
Director
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...
My Six Convicts
Director
A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.
The Mark of the Renegade
Director
An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.
Apache Drums
Director
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
Saddle Tramp
Director
Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbouring ranch, and when a girl on the run from her nasty uncle joins the family unannounced Chuck wonders what he has done to deserve all this.
One Way Street
Director
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
Hardly a Criminal
Writer
A bank employee uses a loophole in Argentine law to concoct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement after serving six years in prison…
Hardly a Criminal
Director
A bank employee uses a loophole in Argentine law to concoct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement after serving six years in prison…
From Man to Man
Director
A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.
Donde mueren las palabras
Director
An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.
Savage Pampas
Director
In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for deserting soldiers.
The Gaucho War
Assistant Director
The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence.
The Old Skinflint
Assistant Director
An Italian immigrant accumulates wealth for their children, all consider him a miserable, until one day one of her children gives a very big disappointment and dies of a heart attack. Their children begin to spend the fortune he had amassed his father.
Melodías de América
Assistant Director
Romance starts in Rio between a Mexican tenor being wooed for a Buenos Aires production, and an Argentine gal who has won a soap contest and who he thinks is rich.
Hermanos
Editor
Frente a la vida
Editor
A man leaves his girlfriend, but she still sacrifices her happiness to procure his.