Chano Urueta

Chano Urueta

Nascimento : 1904-02-24, Chihuahua - Mexico

Morte : 1979-03-23

Perfil

Chano Urueta

Filmes

La Choca
Don Pomposo
A smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and his sister-in-law Flor. One day some men arrive, who accuse him of having betrayed them.
Tragam-me a Cabeça de Alfredo Garcia
Manchot
Alfredo Garcia engravida a filha de um latifundiário mexicano que, revoltado, oferece 1 milhão de dólares por sua cabeça. Um músico arruinado descobre que o procurado já está morto e corta a cabeça do defunto para receber a recompensa.
Los leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra
Director
Twin brother of murdered pro-wrestler goes after the killerses.
Guns and Guts
Fray José
Rene Cardona Jr.'s bloody Mexi-Western is the story of a hired gun that wants to complete his last big job so he can retire with his prostitute. The job consists of killing a sheriff who keeps himself hidden away inside an old monastery. A series of double crosses culminates with an excessively bloody Wild Bunch inspired massacre inside the monastery.
Los leones del ring
Director
Young wrestler runs afoul of gambling-syndicate Mafiosi; his twin brother and two friends meet at his funeral and decide to avenge his murder (which they don't even start doing until the sequel).
Tu camino y el mio
Director
She rejects him, but he's there for her, even after she gets married and then is abandoned by her babydaddy. Remake of Bajo El Cielo De Mexico (1958) (and also 1937?).
Once Upon a Scoundrel
After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.
A Divina Ira
Antonio
Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
The Incredible Professor Zovek
Story
Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.
Kalimán, the Incredible Man
The Fearmaker
A world-famous stage performer returns home following her father's death, only to find greed and evil awaiting.
Furias bajo el cielo
Five inmates escape Death Row and hole up with their women in the ruins of an abandoned hacienda.
Emiliano Zapata
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
El hermano Capulina
Shoplifter evades police by joining a monastery.
El pueblo del terror
Federal-agent/cowboy battles crime
Dos esposas en mi cama
Missing-presumed-dead wife reappears after husband has remarried.
El capitán Mantarraya
Elderly sea captain charms and delights an audience of children, telling them stories about the high adventures he experienced when he was young.
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Cura (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
The Door and The Butcher's Wife
Director
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.
Super Colt 38
Billy Hayes, the marshal, discovers that the bandit whom he has been pursuing so long, and who has for months been torching his county, is none other than an old friend from childhood. Upon being confronted with the truth, the friend draws his gun, and Billy is forced to kill him in justifiable defense. Overwhelmed by guilt, he renounces his office and swears to never use arms again. He rides off toward the town where he and his old friend grew up together. Upon arriving there, he soon becomes involved in a dangerous situation, where Billy must decide whether he will fulfill his promise to keep away from arms, or intervene to save the honor of a woman and the life of an innocent man.
Meu Ódio Será Sua Herança
Don Jose
Perigosos fora-da-lei decidem se aposentar, mas são tentados por um trem carregado de armas com valiosa remessa. Eles já foram os mais perigosos "fora da lei" da fronteira, seguindo seus próprios códigos de honra e lealdade. Realizaram diversos assaltos pelas planícies do oeste, sempre colocando suas cabeças a prêmio. Mas os tempos mudaram. O lucro estava cada vez menor e o risco cada vez maior. Era hora de parar, mas a ganância falou mais alto. Dez mil dólares para roubar o carregamento de armas de um trem para um poderoso bandoleiro mexicano. Nada poderia detê-los, a não ser a morte. William Holden (Inferno na Torre), Ernest Borgnine (Os Doze Condenados) e grande elenco atuam na versão original do diretor Sam Peckinpah.
Everything In Vain
Nicolás
Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.
El as de oros
Director
A young charro's head is turned by a glamourpuss from the big city, and he has a hard time putting his life back together after she kicks him to the curb.
Blue Demon vs. the Diabolical Women
Writer
Wrestler vs. organized crime.
Blue Demon vs. the Diabolical Women
Director
Wrestler vs. organized crime.
Blue Demon vs. the Infernal Brains
Director
A wrestling hero helps the police in their battle against a mad doctor and his army of female zombies.
Chanoc
Tsekub Baloyán
Chanoc, along with his godfather, Tsekub Baloyán, investigate a series of mysterious deaths linked to a gang that extracts uranium.
Los gavilanes negros
Director
Three masked horsemen vs. crooked saloon-owner and his henchdudes.
Blue Demon vs. the Satanic Power
Director
The Blue Demon faces a murderous satanic hypnotist.
Alma grande
Director
Yaqui Indian fights for justice in Northern Mexico. Adaptation of popular comic-book, first in series.
Especialista en chamacas
Director
Young doctor Jaime attends his father's clinic where Diana, a singer, is carried by emergency. After operating it, Jaime falls in love Diana and decides to accompany her throw artistic caravan, where replaced a singer and quarrels by jealousy with Javier, a womanizer trying to conquer Diana.
Blue Demon
Director
Wrestler vs mad-scientist with werewolf serum.
El robo al tren correo
Director
B-Western, plot turns on a train-robbery.
Cinco asesinos esperan
Director
Lupe Balazos
Director
Cowgirl gets her man. After all the entanglements run their course.
El ciclón de Jalisco
Director
La muerte en el desfiladero
Director
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
The Living Head
Director
A group of archaeologists break into the tomb of an ancient Aztec general, arousing the warrior's head and sending his undead servant out to take revenge on the careless scientists.
O Barão Do Terror
Director
Em 1661, o Barão Vitelius de Astara é sentenciado a ser queimado vivo na Santa Inquisição Mexicana, por bruxaria, necromancia e outros crimes. Antes de morrer, o Barão jura vingança contra os descendentes dos inquisidores. Trezentos anos depois, o mesmo cometa que passara durante sua morte, retorna à Terra trazendo o Barão, na forma de uma criatura monstruosa, que se alimenta de cérebros, pronta para realizar sua vingança...
El asaltacaminos
Director
Young man puts on the Black Mask Of Vengeance to solve some tangled legal problems concerning a contested inheritance and several murdered family members. It took him four feature-length movies to do it. (Series: "El Relampago.")
Camino de la horca
Director
Gloomy, fatalistic grown-up western.
The Witch's Mirror
Director
A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.
Pilotos de la muerte
Director
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
El hombre de la ametralladora
Director
Police procedural: tracking a ruthless Chicago hitman who's found a gig in Mexico City.
Guantes de oro
Director
By-the-numbers boxing melodrama.
El torneo de la muerte
Director
Luciano Romero
Director
Jilted boyfriend goes gunning for his ex's new husband, kills her by accident. Husband takes it badly. Sequel to El Hombre Del Alazan (1959).
Bala Perdida
Director
Daniel is let out of jail for his mothers funeral. During his furlough he kidnaps his son and takes him to a movie set where a western is being shot.
Las canciones unidas
Director
Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.
Herencia trágica
Director
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
Los tigres del ring
Director
Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Una bala es mi testigo
Director
Cowboy goes to track down the man who murdered his brother, but it turns out to be someone other than the one he was looking for. Together, they set things straight and take care of the real murderer.
Los hermanos Diablo
Director
The three Diablo brothers are effete dandies who love chamber music and afternoon tea... but they also love brawling and whoring and all that wild west stuff. They inherit a ranch, and all hell breaks loose when they go to take ownership of it.
Del suelo no paso
Director
Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels.
Cuando se quiere se quiere
Director
No soy monedita de oro
Director
El jinete negro
Director
Masked horseman avenges the deaths of family members and resolves questions about a contested inheritance. One of four in a series ("Relampago").
La marca de Satanás
Director
Cowboy avenger vs the supernatural.
The Head of Pancho Villa
Director
Rival factions struggle over a box that was entrusted by Pancho Villa to several members of his higher command. Second of three films in series "El jinete sin cabeza."
El jinete sin cabeza
Director
A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").
Furias desatadas
Director
College student enters the pro wrestling circuit, hoping to find out who killed his father. Third of four in a series.
El ratón
Director
Amateur boxer turns pro, dealing meanwhile with an eventful personal life.
Secuestro diabolico
Director
Serenata en México
Director
Mariachi with dual vocalists is broken up by a promoter who wants one of them as a solo act.
The Illegitimate
Director
Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.
El seductor
Director
A young artist's affair with a married woman destroys her family. Twenty-odd years later, her two daughters fall into his orbit.
El túnel 6
Director
Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide.
El vendedor de muñecas
Director
A man sells his wife, and takes care of street women turning them into ladies to sell to rich men.
Se solicitan modelos
Director
In this Mexican comedy, Mr. Lazaro's fashion house is on the brink of bankruptcy and in desperate need of a new model to replace his current business partner's wife, whose appearance is driving customers away. Lazaro's son, Raul, realizes what a diffucult dilemma his father faces and sets out to restore the integrity of the family-owned business by teaming up with his lovely fiancée to put on a fashion show. Domingo Soler and Sara Montiel star.
¿Por qué ya no me quieres?
Director
La perversa
Writer
Working-class girl becomes a Kept Woman, violating all of man's laws and God's Mandates.
La perversa
Director
Working-class girl becomes a Kept Woman, violating all of man's laws and God's Mandates.
The Witch
Adaptation
Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge on those responsible for his daughter's murder.
The Witch
Director
Thieves break into a scientist's laboratory to steal a secret formula, and in the process they kill his daughter. Enraged, he develops a formula that will turn an extremely ugly woman into a spectacular beauty, and then uses the woman to take his revenge on those responsible for his daughter's murder.
The Magnificent Beast
Director
The Magnificent Beast (Free Fight) is a 1953 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta. The first film of the Luchadores genre.
The Revived Monster
Screenplay
Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora (miroslava) who is ordered by her boss (Wagner) to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling (Linares Rivas). Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery. He falls in love with Nora but fearing she will betray him he resuscitates a young man who committed suicide, Ariel (Navarro) by transplanting a new brain into him, and order him to fetch Nora so that he can kill her.
The Revived Monster
Director
Set in the Balkans, this story concerns a bored journalist, Nora (miroslava) who is ordered by her boss (Wagner) to follow up a mysterious advertisement placed by Dr Ling (Linares Rivas). Ling turns out to be a misshapen creature who, rejected by his peers, has become the stereotypical mad scientist, here specializing in plastic surgery. He falls in love with Nora but fearing she will betray him he resuscitates a young man who committed suicide, Ariel (Navarro) by transplanting a new brain into him, and order him to fetch Nora so that he can kill her.
Música, mujeres y amor
Director
Mi campeón
Director
Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.
La estatua de carne
Writer
Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.
La estatua de carne
Director
Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.
From Can-Can to Mambo
Writer
Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.
From Can-Can to Mambo
Director
Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.
Serenata en Acapulco
Writer
Three broke-ass promoters ingratiate themselves with the owners of a hotel aand a rich guest, all with an eye toward putting on a show.
Serenata en Acapulco
Director
Three broke-ass promoters ingratiate themselves with the owners of a hotel aand a rich guest, all with an eye toward putting on a show.
Manos de seda
Writer
Manos de seda
Director
To the Sound of the Mambo
Director
A fun musical comedy style of the 50s where the infectious rhythm of the son and the mambo, led by the hand by the incomparable Damaso Perez Prado, will a waste of good music and grace. With a formidable cast, and above all a fabulous collector's item.
El desalmado
Writer
Fictional biography of a career criminal.
El desalmado
Director
Fictional biography of a career criminal.
La gota de sangre
Producer
Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?
La gota de sangre
Writer
Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?
La gota de sangre
Director
Did Rodolfo just marry a serial murderess?
Ventarrón
Writer
Ex-con presides over an underworld court trial in an abandoned warehouse to determine the fates of some accused "squealers." Flashbacks reveal the facts of the case being tried.
Ventarrón
Director
Ex-con presides over an underworld court trial in an abandoned warehouse to determine the fates of some accused "squealers." Flashbacks reveal the facts of the case being tried.
El abandonado
Director
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round debauchery.
No me quieras tanto
Director
Feud between two rival gangsters over drug-sales turf.
Dos almas en el mundo
Director
A young couple meet in the reformatory and try to make a life together after they're released.
Yo maté a Juan Charrasqueado
Writer
Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man.
Yo maté a Juan Charrasqueado
Director
Everybody at the ranch adjacent to Juan C.'s has a reason to hate him, because he's a bad bad man.
The Grand Champion
Adaptation
The Grand Champion
Director
Rayito de luna
Screenplay
Mexican movie
Rayito de luna
Adaptation
Mexican movie
Rayito de luna
Director
Mexican movie
La norteña de mis amores
Director
Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
La santa del barrio
Director
Wicked old lady arranges to sell the virginity of a young neighbor. Her boyfriend gets upset over this.
En los altos de Jalisco
Director
MexRev era -- soldier falls in love with the woman who killed his brother, then discovers her role in his back-story.
Se la llevó el Remington
Writer
While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many lives as possible. Doesn't really have anything to do with the historical figure known as Remington, though they used his name for the character here.
Se la llevó el Remington
Director
While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many lives as possible. Doesn't really have anything to do with the historical figure known as Remington, though they used his name for the character here.
Una aventura en la noche
Writer
Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.
La carne manda
Director
Childhood friends move up the economic ladder from slumrat to middle class comfort, but the marriage between two of them is threatened by a bad woman from a nightclub.
Si Adelita se fuera con otro
Director
Young couple run off to join the Mexican Revolution, in part because she has a crush on Francisco Villa.
El deseo
Writer
Two sisters; one's an invalid. They fall in love with the same man.
El deseo
Director
Two sisters; one's an invalid. They fall in love with the same man.
De pecado en pecado
Director
This post-World War II drama, (released to a world-wide audience on July 9, 1949), is definitively unique for the caliber of each of its contributing writers, who are clearly better-known for their cinematic talents in black and white . For instance, the film's Director Chano Urueta ( who became an acclaimed actor in his own right), actually co-wrote the script along with one of its principal actresses, namely Esther Fernandez, as well as adding in the literary abilities of a well-known movie-producer of the era named Luis Marique.
Mujer
Director
Orphan girl grows up, meets the wrong man and falls into disgrace.
La noche y tú
Director
Tango singer exploits his popularity in high society to commit crimes.
Camino de Sacramento
Director
Twin brothers, one of them a bandit, in Mexican California.
El camino de los gatos
Screenplay
Love story and family-melodrama set during the Mexican War Of Independence, 1860s.
El camino de los gatos
Director
Love story and family-melodrama set during the Mexican War Of Independence, 1860s.
El corsario negro
Screenplay
This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo.
El corsario negro
Director
This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaibo.
Viva Mi Desgracia
Screenplay
After drinking a special concoction made of various types of alcohol, the once-timid Ramon (Pedro Infante) suddenly turns into a brawler and extroverted ladies' man. With his newfound confidence, Ramon attempts to win the heart of the woman (María Antonieta Pons) he loves. Full of enjoyable songs and funny scenes, this entertaining Mexican musical centers on a wealthy man who finally realizes that money can't buy him love.
No matarás
Director
A mother stands by helplessly while a scandal involving marital infidelity, blackmail and murder takes shape around her daughter.
Ave sin nido
Director
Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter.
El conde de Montecristo
Adaptation
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
El conde de Montecristo
Director
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
El misterioso señor Marquina
Director
La liga de las canciones
Director
International committee mounts a revue to promote Pan-American unity. Showbiz hotel rom-com hilarity ensues.
¡Que viene mi marido!
Writer
Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status.
¡Que viene mi marido!
Director
Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status.
The Underdogs
Writer
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
The Underdogs
Director
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
Cantinflas, Cicerone
Screenplay
Um cientista planeia o regresso do povo asteca sacrificando donzelas que têm uma marca em suas mãos, mas que só podem ser vistas por um feiticeiro. Isso decorre da interpretação que isso faz de um antigo códice. Cantinflas é seu secretário sem noção que possui poderes sobrenaturais.
Cantinflas, Cicerone
Director
Um cientista planeia o regresso do povo asteca sacrificando donzelas que têm uma marca em suas mãos, mas que só podem ser vistas por um feiticeiro. Isso decorre da interpretação que isso faz de um antigo códice. Cantinflas é seu secretário sem noção que possui poderes sobrenaturais.
The Night of the Mayans
Writer
A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.
The Night of the Mayans
Director
A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.
Hombres del mar
Writer
A 1938 film.
Hombres del mar
Director
A 1938 film.
Canción del alma
Director
Jose and Esperanza got married just before the Revolution blew up, and they got separated in the chaos, each assuming the other was dead. Six or eight years later...
María
Director
The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full realization of their love.
María
Writer
The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full realization of their love.
Mi candidato
Director
Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry.
Jalisco nunca pierde
Director
Arranged marriages vs romance down on the hacienda.
Profanación
Director
Enemigos
Director
The bride of a Federale colonel rejects him on their wedding night, and begins extramarital relations with a strapping young leader of the peasant revolution against which the colonel is fighting.