Carlos Rivas
Nascimento : 1925-02-16, El Paso, Texas, USA
Morte : 2003-06-16
História
Carlos Rivas (born Oscar Weber) was an American actor, best remembered as Lun Tha in The King and I (1956), Dirty Bob in True Grit (1969), and Hernandez in Topaz (1969). Carlos Rivas was discovered in a bar in Mexico. He began his career in Mexican and Argentinian westerns, though his Argentinian films were actually filmed in Mexico.
His American debut was in The King and I (1956) opposite Rita Moreno. After this career highlight, he was quickly reduced to supporting roles. That same year of 1956 he appeared as Johnny Bravo in the TV western Cheyenne in the episode titled "Johnny Bravo." Rivas had co-starring roles in two science fiction films, The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956) and The Black Scorpion (1957). Rivas played Chingachgook in The Deerslayer (1957) with Lex Barker, Forrest Tucker, and Rita Moreno.
In 1970, Rivas joined Ricardo Montalban, Henry Darrow, and other Latino actors in co-founding the Nosotros ("We") Foundation, a Los Angeles based organization devoted to improving the way Hispanics are depicted in entertainment and advocating for Latinos in the movie and television industry.
Padre
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.
Marcos
An ex-soldier saves wild horses from being slaughtered and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
Mr. Vincenzo
From Amir Shervan, the director of SAMURAI COP, comes another great 90's action classic. One man (Johnny Greene) teams up with another (Tadashi Yamashita) to take down the cartel run and its evil leader (Robert Z'Dar).
Kulkan
Quando o super-homem Doc Savage (Ron Ely) retorna para Nova Iorque, ele descobre que seus pais, na verdade, morreram em circunstâncias mais do que misteriosas. A investigação leva Doc a visitar um país da América Central e, em seguida, caçar os responsáveis pelo crime que tirou a vida de seus pais. No entanto, o que Doc não sabe é que ele mesmo está na lista de execução dos criminosos.
Two-Knife
Richard J. Gatling, um médico que trabalhou na realidade para os yankees cuidando de feirods na Guerra Civil Americana, inventou esta arma mortífera, considerada a primeira metralhadora da história, na intenção de atemorizar os governantes com o seu poder de destruição, evitando assim o contato entre os soldados, e em teoria, minimizando as baixas nos conflitos. Após o fim da guerra, várias delas foram espalhadas pelos estados americanos afim de garantir a expansão da ocupação do homem branco nos territórios indígenas. Neste clássico western, uma dessas armas é roubada por soldados yankees traidores, gananciosos em trocá-la por ouro com o Chefe Apache Duas Faces. Antes que caia nas mãos dos índios, um destacamentos da cavalaria resgata a Metralhadora Gatling e parte para retorná-la a salvo no Forte Grand Foz, mas Duas Facas não desiste e fica à espreita, temendo que os yankees a usem contra o seu bando.
Sam
The Phantom Gunslinger is set in the town of "Tucca Flats." The peaceful life of the town is disrupted by the arrival of a gang of bandits, including Algernon, Big Sam, Cookie, and some others. The sheriff leaves town, but not before naming Bill as his successor. Bill, unfortunately, doesn't carry or even know how to use a gun, and the outlaws take over Tucca Flats. But with the help of some Indians, a suit of armor, and springs on his shoes, Bill manages to run the gang out of town.
Hernández
André Devereaux é um homem contratado para checar rumores de mísseis russos em Cuba durante a Guerra Fria. Além disso, ele deve descobrir tudo sobre um espião da Otan chamado Topázio, o que nos leva à mortes, traições e um suspense para sabermos se ele irá conseguir ou não expôr o agente.
Diaz
Após a Guerra Civil, o ex Coronel da União John Henry Thomas e o ex Coronel Confederado James Langdon estão comandando dois grupos diferentes de pessoas através do México conturbado. John Henry e companhia estão levando cavalos para o impopular governo mexicano por US $ 35 por cabeça, enquanto Langdon lidera um grupo de refugiados sulistas que estão à procura de uma nova vida no México, depois de perder suas propriedades para Carpetbaggers (negociantes do norte). Os dois homens são forçados a acertar suas diferenças, a fim de lutar contra os dois bandidos e revolucionários que, como eles, tentam levar os seus amigos e parentes para a segurança.
Tall Bandit
A handsome thoroughbred yearling accidentally escapes from a cross-country van in the desert, and is found and loved by a young Mexican boy. He hides the horse from searchers, but eventually mends his ways and tries to return the animal. However, two hoodlums steal the horse. The boy leads a sheriff to the rescue, and receives an apt reward.
"Dirty Bob"
Rooster Cogburn é um ex-xerife alcoólatra contratado por uma menina de 14 anos para vingar a morte de seu pai. Para pegar o criminoso, eles terão de entrar em um território indígena e enfrentar os comparsas do assassino que estão caçando, homens que não veem problema em matar uma adolescente.
Nicolás Vidal
An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.
Camino Padua / Teo Padua
At the end of WWII, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany to a hiding place in the South American country of Mandoras, in order to revive the Third Reich at a later date. By the 1960s, the time has come, so a top scientist is kidnapped in order to help keep Hitler alive. This film is a re-edit of The Madmen of Mandoras released in theaters in 1963.
"The Vicious Ones" - The police investigates a drug trafficking network. Other social issues are discloses. A rare film including the famous Coccinelle.
Camino Padua / Teo Padua
A group of Nazi survivors save Hitler's brain keeping it alive in a huge jar hooked up to a machine. The Nazis plan to release a deadly gas destroying all life on the planet. To ensure their success they kidnap Professor Coleman the only man on the planet with the antidote to the poison gas.
Young heiress discovers irregularities in the handling of her late father's mine and goes into action-hero mode to correct them.
Carlos
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
Grey Wolf
O último dos irmãos Dalton.
Ricardo
Lost Bird
Um estranho Faroeste sobre intolerância racial. Os índios afirmam que Rachel, a filha adotiva de Zachary, é uma Kiowa raptada em um ataque. A disputa faz os outros brancos virarem as costas para o Zacharys quando a verdade é revelada pela mãe. Cash, o irmão impetuoso, reage violentamente ao saber que sua "irmã" é uma Pele Vermelha. Ele deixa a família, mas retorna para ajudá-los a lutar contra um ataque de índios durante o qual Rachel mata seu irmão Kiowa, escolhendo assim um lado de uma vez por todas.
Carlitos
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
Juan Guzmán
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.
Carlos
This 1959 film noir take on "Othello," filmed in Puerto Rico, stars Mari Blanchard as flirtatious Jean, who marries an older man, plantation owner Don Luis (Albert Dekker), for financial security and finds herself falling for his virile foster son, Carlos (Carlos Rivas). Fearing that Jean will inherit Luis's money, his greedy cousin, Miguel (Lee Van Cleef), poisons the bridegroom against his new wife, informing him about her passion for another.
One of the boys is a radical, one's a playboy, and the girls want to get jobs first before they think about marriage! Mom and Pop have their own #firstworldproblems.
Manuel Ortego
The story finds Sal Regan singing and dancing for her supper in a low-class Panamanian dive. Wealthy Dennis P. Dennis takes a liking to Sal, and decides to do the "My Fair Lady" bit. He takes the girl back to the States, where, after teaching her the social graces, he makes her famous as a high-toned supper club songstress. Along the way, Dennis falls in love with Sal, much to the dismay of his wealthy pals, who try to break up the romance.
Artur Ramos
No México, após uma intensa atividade vulcânica, uma fenda se abre no subsolo libertando uma horda de escorpiões gigantes que espalham o terror pelos povoados vizinhos. Para impedir uma tragédia, dois geólogos se unem a uma fazendeira local em busca de uma solução.
Chingachgook
After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostile Huron Indians, they learn that the Hurons will attack Old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Hetty and Judith, who live on a floating raft fort on the river.
Felipe Sanchez
Um cowboy americano vivendo no México descobre que seu gado está sendo comido por um gigante e pré-histórico dinossauro.
Lun Tha
A história verídica de uma inglesa, Anna Leonowens, que vai ao Sião para tornar-se professora da corte real em 1860. Apesar de ela logo se desentender com o teimoso monarca, com o passar do tempo, Anna e o Rei deixam de tentar mudar um ao outro e começam a se entender. Refilmagem de 'Anna e o Rei do Sião (1946)' e refilmado em 'Anna e o Rei (1999)'.
Mario Vidal
Woman becomes a prostitute so her writer BF can concentrate on his art instead of working for a living.
José
Big-city songwriter and small-town music student conduct a romance by mail, then finally meet.
Antonio del Río
Anthology film, four episodes.
Federico
The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the less qualified workers or those who have recently arrived from the rural areas live in the industrial cordons.
The theft of a village mailbox wreaks havoc on the relationships and secrets of its neighbors.
