Movita

Movita

Birth : 1917-12-04,

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Movita
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Panic in Echo Park
A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
Apache Ambush
Rosita
Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.
Dream Wife
Rima
Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding - Effie!
Wild Horse Ambush
Lita Espinosa
A man has kidnaped an engraver and has him forging Mexican bills. He captures wild horses supposedly to sell for hides but uses them to transport the bills across the border. Police captain Juan Reyes (Richard Avonde) is posing as a bandit to uncover the counterfeiters smuggling fake pesos into Mexico, and is assisted by feisty youngsters Red (Michael Chapin) and Judy (Eilene Janssen), who are trying to protect the wild horses being used by the gang. The kids suspect that rancher Big John Harkins (Roy Barcroft) is the leader of the gang and that he is forcing Mexican artist Espinosa (Julian Rivero) to help him.
Saddle Legion
Mercedes
A cattle inspector runs a rustling ring on the side.
Soldiers Three
Cabaret woman (as Movita Castenada)
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
The Petty Girl
Carmelita Moray (uncredited)
An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his arwork. She declines his offer, but he's determined not to take no for an answer.
The Furies
Chiquita
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over the man's choice for a new bride. Things get worse when the elder man has his daughter's lover hanged. With the help of an old flame, a gambler, the daughter puts into motion a plan to drive her father from his estate.
A Lady Without Passport
Lorena (uncredited)
A secret service agent falls in love with an illegal immigrant.
Federal Man
Lolita Martinez / Montez (as Movita Castaneda)
A government agent travels from the United States to Mexico to nab drug dealers.
Wagon Master
Young Navajo Indian
Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Navajo, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.
Red Light
Trina
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
The Mysterious Desperado
Luisa
A cowboy is accused of his father's murder.
Fort Apache
Guadalupe
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
Tower of Terror
Marie Durand
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...
Girl from Rio
Marquita Romero
A newsman helps a Brazilian singer get her brother out of trouble in New York.
Wolf Call
Towana
A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.
Rose of the Rio Grande
Rosita del Torre
The story, based on a novel by Johnston (Zorro) McCulley, concerns a group of aristocratic vigilantes, who go about trying to restore their prominence in Mexico by killing anyone who stands in their way.
The Hurricane
Arai
A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.
Paradise Isle
Ida
Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita).
Captain Calamity
Annana
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.
El Diablo del Mar
Maya
A ship disappears without trace. What happened to the crew? Years later there's news of possible survivors and soon a rescue team is setting sail. Eventually they discover a young man living on a remote island and they ask him to leave with them. He refuses, so they abduct him. But he gets his revenge and guides them into the lair of the devil of the deep. Alternate language version of THE SEA FIEND (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty
Tehani
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on avenging his captors.
Flying Down to Rio
Singer (uncredited)
A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.