Juan Torena

Juan Torena

Perfil

Juan Torena

Filmes

Vida Contra Vida
Mexican Police Chief
A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.
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.
Guerrilheiros das Filipinas
Juan Martinez
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back.
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.
It Happened in Havana
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
Based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger, and the Giacomo Puccini opera. The young, tubercular seamstress, Mimi, falls in love with the impoverished playwright, Rodolfo, but poverty takes its toll on their relationship. When Mimi meets a wealthy suitor, Viscount Paul, to ask him for financial help, Rodolfo dumps her.
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."
A Astúcia de Nero Wolfe
Carlo Maringola
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of suspects is responsible for two sudden deaths, which the authorities at first are not convinced were murders.
Mensagem a Garcia
Luís Maderos
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
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)
Olho de Águia
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, Spain, 1880. Angelina, daughter of the pompous Brigadier Marcial, is tempted by the womanizer Germán, who asks her to run away together, just after her boyfriend, Rodolfo, asks her to do exactly the same thing with him.
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.
There Were Thirteen
Dick Kennaway
This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.
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.