Juan Torena

Juan Torena

Perfil

Juan Torena

Películas

Astucia de mujer
Mexican Police Chief
Helen y Doug están de vacaciones en México con su hijo. Doug sufre un aparatoso accidente cuando una pierna se le queda atrapada bajo un pilón. Entonces ella tiene que recurrir a un prófugo para que le ayude a salvar a su marido de la subida de la marea.
My Man and I
Vincente Aguilar
In California, a Mexican-American is falsely accused of killing the farmer he was working for after the racist farmer stiffed his immigrant employee with a bad check.
Guerrilleros en Filipinas
Juan Martinez
Soldados Americanos varados en las Filipinas después de la invasión Japonesa forman guerrillas para contraatacar.
Mexicana
Master of Ceremonies
A Mexican crooner tries to put off fans by faking marriage to his American co-star.
Verbena trágica
Cantabria’s second independent production was very successful in the cinemas of L.A.’s Mexican neighborhoods, although the narrative actually takes place in Spanish Harlem in New York City. On the eve of Columbus Day celebrations, the boxer Mateo returns home from a stint in prison and realizes that his wife is pregnant, and he can’t be the father. His wife Blanca has in fact been having a secret affair with her sister Lola’s fiancé, Claudio. Mateo confronts his wife, but she refuses to name the father, leading to tragic results.
El romance del palmar
Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.
Mis dos amores
DA José Miranda
Rita Santiago's father, Don Antonio, stubbornly refuses to give permission for her to marry Julio Bertolin, a struggling medical student, because he wants his daughter to marry a rich Brazilian. Because of this, Julio leaves medical school and determines to gain wealth and position for himself by becoming a singer.
La vida bohemia
Marcelo
Mimí, una joven costurera tuberculosa, se enamora del pobre dramaturgo Rodolfo, pero la pobreza termina afectando a su relación. Cuando Mimí queda con un acaudalado pretendiente, el vizconde Paul, para pedirle dinero, Rodolfo la abandona.
Wallaby Jim of the Islands
Pascal the Thief
Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a valuable source of pearls in the South Pacific. But Jim's associate Norman has put the whole operation in jeopardy because of his gambling problem. Jim's unscrupulous rival Richter decides to exploit the situation by jumping Jim's claim and trying to take over for himself.
Espionage
South American
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
El carnaval del diablo
Captain Calamity
Mike
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.
The Devil on Horseback
Juan Torres
This musical tells the story of Campo wooing Damita from Keating with songs "So Divine," "Out of the Hills," "The Love Fiesta," "Oh Bella Mia."
Meet Nero Wolfe
Carlo Maringola
El gran detective, con la ayuda de su inseparable ayudante Archie, ha de resolver dos crímenes, en apariencia no relacionados entre sí.
Un mensaje a García
Luís Maderos
El teniente Andrew Rowan (autor del libro en el que se basa el film y encarnado por Wallace Beery) debe entregar urgentemente un mensaje del presidente norteamericano William McKinley al líder revolucionario Calixto García. Para ello, dicho emisario contará con la ayuda de Raphaelita Maderos, hija de un acaudalado cubano. Basada en un caso real ocurrido durante la guerra de Cuba entre Estados Unidos y España en 1898.
El Crimen de Media Noche
Alberto Burke
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops. Alternate language version of MIDNIGHT PHANTOM (1935)
The Eagle's Brood
Esteban
When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.
Angelina, o El honor de un brigadier
Federico
Madrid, España, 1880. Angelina, hija del pomposo general de brigada Marcial, es tentada por el mujeriego Germán, que le pide que huyan juntos, justo después de que su novio, Rodolfo, le pida que haga exactamente lo mismo con él.
Storm Over the Andes
Milano
A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides in the conflict.
The Gay Caballero
Juan Rodrigues
Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle thief Don Paco is hounded by El Coyote (who is really Don Bob) who now has a partner in Ted. Unfortunately Ted is also falling love with Don Paco's daughter Adela.
Eran trece
Dick Kennaway
En Londres, el millonario americano Louis Potter es hallado muerto, estrangulado, en su habitación de hotel. El Inspector Duff (Rafael Calvo) investiga la escena del crimen y concluye que el asesinato se produjo en otro lugar y el cadáver fue llevado ahí. Scotland Yard no tiene pistas decisivas, y no hay chance de impedir al resto de los viajeros continuar su rumbo. Así que esa misma noche el grupo zarpa para el Continente en un recorrido que los llevará por Francia, Italia, Grecia y Singapur. Duff se propone seguir al grupo en todas sus destinaciones y no hay mayores novedades entre San Remo y Hong Kong, pero al llegar a Honolulú, se reúne con su viejo amigo, Charlie Chan (Manuel Arbó), jefe de homicidios de la policía local. Chan se pone manos a la obra para continuar la investigación de su colega herido y resolver el caso.
Common Clay
A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.