Manuel Dondé

Manuel Dondé

Nascimento : 1906-01-01, Campeche, Campeche, Mexico

Morte : 1976-01-01

História

Manuel Dondé was born in 1906 in Campeche, Campeche, Mexico. He was an actor and casting director, known for El tesoro de Sierra Madre (1948), El (1953) and Subida al cielo (1952). He was a character actor who usually played villains. He died in 1976.

Perfil

Manuel Dondé

Filmes

Alucarda
Wagon Driver
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.
Cuartelazo
Jesús Fernández, boticario
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
Anyway, Juan is Your Name
Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.
Rapine
Don Andres
Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident
Las adorables mujercitas
El primer amor
Seminary students interrupts his studies for a final vacation in the real world and finds it difficult to break his worldly bonds in preparation for the pristhood.
A Montanha Sagrada
Wanderer (uncredited)
Um alquimista reúne um grupo de pessoas para representar os planetas do sistema solar. Sua intenção é submetê-los a estranhos rituais místicos antes de enviá-los para a Ilha de Lotus, onde escalarão a Montanha Sagrada para substituir os deuses que secretamente governam o universo.
Capulina vs. the Mummies
The Zombie
A taxi driver winds up working as a butler for a scientist who is trying to revive mummies.
Diamantes, Oro y Amor
Las cautivas
Raimundo, a wealthy man, died of a heart attack. The notary reads out Raimundo's will, leaving all his estate and companies to the widow, Luz, with the surprising clause that she will remain without a man for the period of two years, during which his trusted attorney, Arturo, will be in possession of the whole patrimony. Luz being much younger than her late husband, resents this clause that will keep her captive of the dead man for so long. Her attempts to seek release in the night spots of the town do not prove satisfying. Lucia, the maid, starts an extortion scheme against the widow, menacing to denounce the murder of Raimundo with venom, as Luz and Arturo were lovers. The faithful cook and the gardener are dismissed and Lucía literally takes her employer's image, clothes, and manners - forcing Luz to play humbly to her (progressively insane) demands.
Para servir a usted
Grajales
Working-class dude gets a gig as a waiter doing banquet service, and loses his moral compass through his contacts with decadent rich folk.
La rebelion de las hijas
Three young women are ready to marry, but their father inserts himself into the decision-making process.
Su precio... unos dólares
A woman hires four gunmen, Trinidad, Doc, Satan and The Renegade to rob a bank, but things don't work out as planned.
El último pistolero
Alcaide
Los siete proscritos
A motley crew of seven outlaws are pressed into service to defend a town from marauding Apaches, then two of them are appointed co-Sheriffs. Also some stuff about hunting for a lost treasure.
The Book of Stone
Bruno
Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of a little girl named Silvia, whose unusual demeanor may find its roots in the family garden.
Los Asesinos
Hombre Asesinado
Starring Nick Adams in his final role, a lone cowboy rides into a small Western town that is besieged by a gang of hoodlums in search of treasure. The search leads to an all out war between the town bosses, a family of crooked ranchers and other unsavory characters. But when Shannon (Nick Adams) enters the picture, they may have met their match...
Blue Demon: Destructor of Spies
Funebrero (uncredited)
Blue Demon returns in one of his best adventures like Agent Zero, who this time is facing a criminal organization that attempts to poison the world with a deadly gas (whose formula is unknown). This time, Zero (Blue Demon) is the only one qualified to investigate and prevent Hans plans, the evil leader of the organization.
The Scapular
Gendarme
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
Operation 67
Police detective
The silver masked Santo tries to stop a gang of counterfeiters who conspire to ruin the economy.
Mujeres, mujeres, mujeres
(segment "Amor y yoga")
Three-episode sex farce.
El silencioso
Taciturn gunslinger 'helps out' a widow lady under siege from bad guys.
Alma Grande en el desierto
Yaqui Indian hero -- comic-book adaptation.
La leyenda del bandido
Western with romance subplot.
Juan Pistolas
Picaresque adventures of two small-time crooks, ligging around on the periphery of the Mexican revolution.
Alazán y enamorado
Señor juez
Rom-com about two horses. And some humans.
Tempo de Morrer
Barber
Juan Sayago é condenado a dezoito anos de prisão após matar um homem em um duelo. Juan cumpre sua pena e assim que sai da cadeia, traça um plano para sua vida: viver tranquilamente em sua cidade natal ao lado de Mariana Sampedro. No entanto, os filhos do homem que Juan matou não pretendem deixar que ele viva tão tranquilamente assim.
Los Sánchez deben morir
An anxious father wants to trap the Sanchez brothers into marrying his two daughters.
Santo vs. the Ghost of the Strangler
When Santo beat to Estrangulador, one of his strongest enemies, thought not ever see it, but thanks to Tor returns to avenge the death of Santo.
Tierra de violencia
Western sheriff's black-sheep son becomes responsible for keeping order in town while his father is recovering from a gunshot.
Black Wind
Tata Lupe
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
Santo vs. the Strangler
Policía encubierto
Santo battles the Strangler.
Alma llanera
A Venezuelan rancher tries to preserve his traditional way of life in spite of modernizing influences brought when international business discovers oil in his region.
She-Wolves of the Ring
Arena Employee (uncredited)
Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
El último cartucho
Dishonest business practices and corrupt local government lead a large number of townsfolk to set up an alternative village out in the countryside, from which to practice banditry and improvised social justice.
The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
Dependiente de hotel (uncredited)
If you've ever longed for a movie about wrestling women who take on various monsters, this is it! Xochitl, the mummy, can turn into a snake or a bat, which is difficult to get half-Nelsons on. Loreita, the Golden Ruby, joins her sister to battle the evil Prince Fugiyata and her Oriental female wrestlers. The mummy is also female and on the good side of the struggle.
El espadachín
Evil aristocrat covets his brother's wife, swordsman-for-hire comes to her rescue.
Frente al destino
El río de las ánimas
Traveling lawman comes to town and schools the residents in collective farming practices. There's also a bad guy with a lot of money who's cut off the water supply to the area's farmers, and the soul of a murder victim that manifests as a flying fireball.
Bullfighter for One Day
El Piporro, desperate to earn more money, decides to fight and put his skills to the test in the rodeo using a nickname.
Un tipo a todo dar
Romanticized version of Javier Solis' biography, from working-class roots to boxer to musician.
The Paper Man
(uncredited)
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Kiss from Beyond the Grave
Dr. Mariscal
A newlywed couple find themselves broke when the woman's father dies deeply in debt. Forced to sell their belongings, they move into a rundown house from which they get very bad vibes. It's not long before some very strange and disturbing people begin showing up at the house.
Sangre en la barranca
An innocent love withers when a terrible truth is uncovered.
Ghost Town
Alejo
A vampire is on the loose in an old west town.
Dos gallos y dos gallinas
Two brothers are trying to raise emergency cash by doing cockfights and horse-races. They meet two sisters.
Tlayucan
Mendigo ciego
Desesperado pela doença do filho, o camponês Eufemio rouba uma pérola da imagem de Santa Lucía na igreja do povoado. Alguns turistas testemunham e fotografam o roubo e Eufemio fica a ponto de ser linchado por seus vizinhos.
¡En peligro de muerte!
Indio
Los falsos héroes
Three spoiled rich kids live profligately and set a bad example for an ambitious middle-class friend.
Martín Santos el llanero
A farmer aspires to marry the daughter of the local aristocrats, but she think he's beneath her. It take a long time for things to settle into a groove so life can run smoothly again for all concerned.
Ay Chabela...!
Two guys fight over two girls, ranchera style.
Juana Gallo
General Antonio Dávila
Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
En carne propia
Velador ladrón
Rookie reporter and his publisher's daughter get caught up in a bizarre crime/traffic accident noir dilemma.
Limosneros con garrote
Low-rent vaudeville entertainers lose their venue and try to find mainstream jobs to support the foundling child they're raising.
El impostor
An academic and his family go back to the land, then get involved in politics.
Macario
Enviado de la inquisicion (uncredited)
O pobre e faminto camponês Macario sente saudades de uma boa refeição. Então, no Dia de Finados, a esposa prepara um peru assado. Na hora do jantar, Macario recebe a vista de três espíritos: o Diabo, Deus e a Morte. Cada um quer dividir o peru com Macario, mas ele só oferece a comida a Morte. Como recompensa, a Morte dá a ele uma garrafa de água capaz de curar qualquer doença. Logo Macario está mais saudável do que qualquer um na cidade. Mas isso desperta a atenção da população e, mais que isso, causa medo a todos, levando Macario a uma verdadeira inquisição.
Los tigres del ring
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.
Sonatas
Campesino
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.
México nunca duerme
Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs looking for her.
The New Invisible Man
A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence, while his brother works feverishly to find an antidote. Theatrically released in USA in Spanish language only; later English-dubbed version syndicated directly to television.
El rayo de Sinaloa: La venganza de Heraclio Bernal
Disgruntled 19th century peasants get militant and start redistributing some wealth. Part two of a historical-drama trilogy.
El Látigo Negro
Zorro imitation, first in a series.
Raffles
Don Teófilo
Tragic cabaret
Young woman is sorta trapped into working as a bar-girl because of her unwitting complicity in a murder. Meanwhile, the tough broad who owns the bar faces problems of her own, mostly centered around a philandering boyfriend and an over-ambitious adopted daughter.
Swamp of the Lost Monster
Don Nacho Mendoza
A disappearing body leads a detective and his sidekick into an encounter with a gill man.
Assassins of the Night
After serving a prison sentence, a guy goes after the gang-leader who framed him.
Secuestro diabolico
O Grão de Milho
Matías
A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.
Los amantes
Mexican feature film
Las medias de seda
Vineyard worker is happy when her long-estranged artist brother comes to visit her. But then...
Encrucijada
Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.
Love and Sin
Agustín, padre Miguel
A dramatic encounter between passionate love and fraternal love. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, played by the beautiful dancer Ninón Sevilla, an orphan they rescued during their childhood. Though she loves only one of them, she decides to give up her happiness rather than destroying the reason of the other she doesn't love.
Policías y ladrones
When an inexperienced police officer discovers a corpse while inspecting a crime scene, he flees with no explanation. However, that action will help his unit to recover some stolen jewels during a robbery.
A Morte no Jardim
Telegraph operator (uncredited)
Uma revolução eclode em uma cidade de mineração sul-americana. Um aventureiro malandro, um velho mineiro, uma bela prostituta, um deficiente auditivo e um ministro ativista escapam do regime despótico e fogem para a selva.
The Hidden One
Tuerto
Judging by the number of times it has shown up on Spanish-language cable TV, La escondida is one of the most popular and best beloved of the Maria Felix vehicles. The star runs the emotional gamut as Gabriela, who rises from the depths of poverty to the heights of Mexican society as a much-sought-after courtesan. Eventually, however, Gabriela proves that she is still true to her peasant heritage by casting her lot with the rebels in the 1916 Mexican civil war. Pedro Armendariz co-stars as Felipe, the charismatic rebel leader who wins Gabriela's heart - and inadvertently causes her downfall. La escondida is stunningly photographed by the late, great Gabriel Figueroa.
La culpa de los hombres
Lorenzo
A factory worker gets pregnant by the son of her boss, who forces his son to marry a rich girl he doesn't love.
Los tres Villalobos
Three brothers cowboy-up to battle crime. Based on a radio serial.
Drop the Curtain
Detective de policía (uncredited)
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
La vida no vale nada
Carmelo
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
La mujer X
Leonardo
A woman accused of murder refuses to defend herself in any way, in order to avoid tarnishing the family name and the reputation of her long-lost son.
El pueblo sin Dios
Jugador
Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
Isso é Que é Homem!
Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
Ensaio de um Crime
Colonel at wedding
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
Si volvieras a mi
O Rio e a Morte
Zósimo Anguiano
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
Jardim do Pecado
Cantina Waiter (uncredited)
Três americanos dirigem-se de navio à volta do cabo para os campos de ouro da Califórnia quando são colocados em terra durante várias semanas numa pequena aldeia mexicana adormecida. Enquanto lá estão, é-lhes oferecido o trabalho de seguir uma senhora até às montanhas infestadas de índios do México para salvar o marido das senhoras presas preso por um desmoronamento na sua mina de ouro. Para o trabalho são-lhes prometidos dois mil dólares cada. Enquanto cada uma contempla as suas próprias hipóteses de conseguir a dama e/ou a mina de ouro, se conseguirem sobreviver para desfrutar dela.
La perversa
Fiscal
Working-class girl becomes a Kept Woman, violating all of man's laws and God's Mandates.
Frontera norte
Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.
O Alucinado
Pablo
Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him. Francisco is a dedicated husband, but little by little his passion starts to exhibit disturbing traits. Nevertheless, Gloria meets with scepticism as she expresses her worries to their acquaintances.
Misericordia
Faded rich family has a housekeeper who struggles to keep them fed and comfortable after their fortune disappears; she also sacrifices herself on behalf of sick and disabled friends. Is there no end to her nobility of spirit?
El genial Detective Peter Pérez
Bumbling detective solves a murder on board a train.
Por ellas aunque mal paguen
Cacomixtle
Don Anastacio, an aristocrat passing through a rough patch,He will make marry his daughter Isabel with wealthy rancher. Isabel and her family refuse to work, Jose Manuel takes them to the ranch, where they are forced to work for food.
Meat in Prison
El llorón
Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't.
Subida Ao Céu
Eladio Gonzales
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
Pasionaria
Musicians/dancers look for their big show-biz break while dealing with a melodrama/crime activity that involves an abusive husband, a lecherous employer and a heroin lab.
The Martyr of Calvary
Lázaro
The Martyr of Calvary (Spanish: El Mártir del Calvario) is a 1952 Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Morayta about the life of Christ. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
Two Faces Have the Destiny
Chiclero tuerto
Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
El Suavecito
Esbirro del Nene
The playboy Roberto "El Suavecito" takes very comfortable working relationship with Lupita, despite his constant infidelities. One night in a ballroom, "El Suavecito" fight with the driver Carlos. After making peace, "El Suavecito" invites the betting parlor Carlos "El Nene", a dangerous gangster. There he commits a crime and Carlos is wrongly accused. Coward, "El Suavecito" sells his silence to "El Nene", but regrets not allow you to keep your promise for long.
They Say I'm a Communist
Camarada Palomera
A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a political party, apparently from left, who convinces him to join their ranks and defending the working class. After entering through a ritual as mysterious as typical, you will realize demagoguery and arrangements existing between union leaders to maintain the status quo unchanged and profit from mafia practices.
María Montecristo
Lic. Suárez
Rich woman manouevres in secret to restore her dead father's good reputation.
Todos son mis hijos!...
Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son neglect their aging parents, whose fortunes decline precipitously.
El Cristo de mi Cabecera
Santiago
1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and...
La mujer que yo amé
A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that he has succeeded, however, has become a street prostitute prone to paralysis. Finally one day he takes courage and decides to look for, since it has become invalid again ...
Cuatro contra el mundo
El Lagarto
This dazed Mexican-melodrama-cum-boozer-heist-noir cuts a dark swath over a border nominally dominated by the hardboiled likes of Chandler and Hammett. Employing many of the classic tropes of Mexican noir (blood-tainted money, hothouse betrayals, the entrapped yearnings of dark hearts), we follow the slow demise of a gang who hole up in an attic in the wake of a fatal robbery. Galindo liberally dashes in lashes of the smokiest amour mort, gradually whittling it down to an ill-fated if rapturous coupling of gangster’s moll and underling. Starring Leticia Palma and Víctor Parra.
Callejera
Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.
El rencor de la tierra
Mexican movie
La malquerida
Accordionist
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
Pueblerina
Rómulo
Aurelio Rodríguez is released from jail, and tries to start a new life marrying Paloma and working his land. But the local landowners, the brothers González, interfere with his plans.
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son for target practice. Enough is enough.
Midnight
Melquiades
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
La vorágine: abismos de amor
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
Rayito de luna
Tuerto
Mexican movie
La norteña de mis amores
Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
Se la llevó el Remington
Santos
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.
Maclovia
Comisario (uncredited)
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
Revancha
Gilberto Acosta
A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.
Algo flota sobre el agua
El zurdo
Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.
Río Escondido
El Rengo
Called by the Mexican President himself, and in spite of a heart condition, young teacher Rosaura Salazar travels to the deserted town of Rio Escondido to accomplish the mission of bringing education to the poorest people. Being there, Salazar has to fight Regino Sandoval the evil landlord of the town. He has transformed the town into his own property, imposing his will and spreading death everywhere.
El muchacho alegre
Boisterous young charro has to prove to his girlfriend's parents that he's ready to settle down and be a responsible adult... but then somebody frames him for a murder and he has more immediate problems to deal with.
O Tesouro de Sierra Madre
El Jefe
Dois vagabundos e um garimpeiro grisalho descobrem um verdadeiro tesouro em ouro, mas a ganância e a paranoia vai rapidamente se apoderar de todos neste clássico sobre o poder da riqueza escondida nas montanhas e a avareza que se esconde no coração dos homens. e 12.
When the Brave Cry
Soldado
A farmer is in love during revolutionary times.
Enamorada
Fidel Bernal
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, Armendáriz falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
The Other
Agente Vilár
A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.
El ahijado de la muerte
José
Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.
The Jungle of Fire
Tuxpeño
A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947
Um Dia com o Diabo
Cantinflas, em uma noite de bebedeira, se torna um soldado do exército por engano. Logo, durante uma missão de combate, ele está ferido e já à beira da morte, ele encontra um demônio que tenta transformá-lo em um ser maligno.
Canaima
Cauchero
College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.
Like All Mothers
The story of a single mother and her children, and the lives that cross their paths.
Balajú
Pomposo
Another Dawn
Gunman
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
El rayo del sur
Latter part of the career of Padre Morelos, the 18th/19th century military leader. Sequel to... um... El Padre Morelos.
Doña Bárbara
Carmelito López
A woman hardened by her past now runs a ranch she acquired through manipulation and bribery.
Morenita clara
Roque, mayordomo
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
Wild Flower
Úrsulo Torres
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
Cantinflas no Circo
(uncredited)
Nesta versão de O Circo (1928), de Chaplin, Cantinflas é um sapateiro que consegue emprego em um circo como zelador, recomendado pela bela garota piloto do espetáculo. Mas mais tarde, Cantinflas entra em apuros quando ele intervém em atos perigosos, como o trapézio. Obviamente, nosso amigo arriscará sua vida pelo amor de sua nova namorada.
The Spirit's Canyon
Macario
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
El hombre de la máscara de hierro
Pierre
The Three Musketeers
Capitán (uncredited)
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
Jesus of Nazareth
Testigo contra Jesús
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
El gendarme desconocido
Amigo vagabundo (uncredited)
Cantinflas captura uma gangue que havia assaltado um banco na noite anterior. Considerado um herói, torna-se membro da força de missões especiais por causa de sua capacidade de se disfarçar de muitas formas diferentes.
Ni sangre ni arena
Miembro cuadrilla (uncredited)
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Creo en Dios
A 1941 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Hombre o demonio
A 1940 film.
El jefe máximo
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
The Coward
Minor Role (uncredited)
Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears.
El Cementerio De Las Aguilas
Sirviente (uncredited)
Historical drama, French occupation of the 1830s.
The Blood Stain
Camelia, a prostitute who works in a low-class cabaret in Mexico City (called "The Blood Stain') meets Guillermo, a young man from the country who just arrived in the city looking for a better life. She offers to take care of him until he gets set up, and the initial friendship soon turns romantic. This inevitably causes problems with Gastón, Camelia's pimp.
Soulless Women
Policeman
Julian gets framed for stealing a company check by his superior Carlos who's courting his wife Olga together trying to get him outa the way so they can be together, setting him up, the deed does the job and Julian lands in jail.
The Crying Woman
Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.