Alfredo B. Crevenna

Alfredo B. Crevenna

Рождение : 1914-04-22, Frankfurt, Germany

Смерть : 1996-08-30

История

Alfredo B. Crevenna (22 April 1914 – 30 August 1996) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed 151 films between 1945 and 1995.

Профиль

Alfredo B. Crevenna

Фильмы

Las Nenas de Quinto Patio
Director
A con artist tries to help his fellow neighbors pay their rent when they face eviction.
No jálen! que descobijan
Director
This story told through characters that have the virtue of being real and unreal for their style of living in which the sense and sympathy to seek emotional health is highlighted.
On the Edge of Terror
Director
Fernando Almada is 'El Griego' a world famous ventriloquist now on the brink of madness. Because he can no longer find an audience for his show, his strange personality makes him abuse the puppets he works with. But they seem to have a life of their own. Now Fernando is swep into a world of terror as the puppets seek their revenge!
Suicide Squad
Director
A group of professional commandos have to rescue a young female hostage from the drug cartel. Once in the jungle, they're being killed one by one by a fearful enemy.
La sombra del Tunco
Director
Carrera contra el destino
Director
Mexican feature film
Noche de fieras
Screenplay
A couple with marital problems visits the wife's deceased father old dark house, soon some strange things starts to happen.
Noche de fieras
Director
A couple with marital problems visits the wife's deceased father old dark house, soon some strange things starts to happen.
Comezón a la Mexicana
Director
This belly-laugh funny theatrical hit spawned a genre of racy comedies revolving around "The Seven Year Itch." As several wacky bumblers find out, the "itching" can be true love, the "scratchin" a whole lot of fun, but what happens when the inevitable embarrassing situations ensue is pure hilarity.
Programado para morir
Director
Mafia members go after a father and a son who know too much.
El garañón
Director
Los hijos del criminal
Director
Rumbera caliente
Director
El Chácharas
Director
El fugitivo de Sonora
Director
A corrupt and racist government official oppresses the people and makes arrangements to ungratefully seize citizen's land and property. Mario Almada fights for justice and crusades to help the disenfranchised.
Cacería implacable
Director
Cacería implacable
El gran relajo mexicano
Director
Mexican feature film
Los albureros
Director
Más Buenas que el Pan
Director
After winning a bet, Lalo goes on vacation with his two daughters and his best friend, they will try to keep Lalo's daughters away from perverted boys.
Cinco nacos asaltan Las Vegas
Director
Five friends decide to go to Las Vegas to get money and one of them thinks of robbing a casino.
Las limpias
Director
La Muerte del federal de caminos
Director
A narco kingpin is injured in a raid and he declares war on all federales. One in particular...
Los matones del norte
Director
Young man grows up thinking that his father's murderer is dead but wanting revenge against the guys who hired him to commit that crime.
El mexicano feo
Director
Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.
La salvaje ardiente
Director
Sociologists working with a remote Mayan population buy an underaged slave for themselves to share, and spend half the movie telling each other how extra super duper hot hot she is.
Me lleva la tristeza
Director
A dumped boyfriend uses his money and social position to ruin the lives of his ex and her new husband. Also some crime stuff.
The Feathered Coyote
Adaptation
The outstanding comedian, "La India Maria," unknowingly ends up as a detective in Acapulco, pursued by smugglers of ancient artifacts.
The Feathered Coyote
Director
The outstanding comedian, "La India Maria," unknowingly ends up as a detective in Acapulco, pursued by smugglers of ancient artifacts.
La fuga de Carrasco
Director
The Fury of the Karate Experts
Director
An evil priestess and her twin sister battle for control of a powerful crystal.
The Fist of Death
Director
In the far east the star of great power is stolen by an ambitious woman, who was jealous of the jungle girl who was sent by the gods, also succeeds in kidnapping her. This mission will only be solved by Santo, the masked man of silver who will have to save the girl and recover the star to return the tranquility to the town.
De pulquero a millonario
Writer
Unemployed commie activist from an under-developed neighborhood wins a lottery and starts mingling with rich people.
De pulquero a millonario
Director
Unemployed commie activist from an under-developed neighborhood wins a lottery and starts mingling with rich people.
La isla de Rarotonga
Director
A family of scientific researchers visits a Pacific island and is thrown into disarray when the local sex goddess bewitches the head of the household.
Las muñecas del King Kong
Director
Rape/revenge story in a rural setting, with subplots about stealing livestock, home-invasion activity, and sexytimes with bar-girls.
Juan el enterrador
Director
Wanted by the police, a drug-smuggler goes into hiding, passing as a priest in a small town.
El preso No. 9
Director
Domestic melodrama about infidelity set against an illegal immigration/"making a better life" background.
La venganza de un matón
Director
Ilegales y mojados
Director
After crossing the river, Mauricio has a hard time finding work, so he throws in with a gang of cocaine smugglers.
The Dracula Dynasty
Director
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Deadly Nightmare
Adaptation
Deadly Nightmare
Director
The Whip vs. Satan
Director
Zorro-type horseman with occult powers faces off against all metaphysical evils.
Penthouse de la Muerte
Adaptation
Journalist digs into the workings of a smuggling outfit led by a bigamist who's living under two names in different cities. Meanwhile, a rival gang is moving in on their action.,
Penthouse de la Muerte
Director
Journalist digs into the workings of a smuggling outfit led by a bigamist who's living under two names in different cities. Meanwhile, a rival gang is moving in on their action.,
Puerto maldito
Director
Alguien tiene que morir
Script
A man murders the person who killed his wife, so he flees to Central America, where he finds love again.
Alguien tiene que morir
Director
A man murders the person who killed his wife, so he flees to Central America, where he finds love again.
La hora del jaguar
Director
Police officer dismissed from the force for excessive use of force, is hired as a hitman for some unnamed shadow organization.
El cuatro dedos
Director
The Whip
Director
In the ruins of Tikal, a struggle breaks out for possession of the priceless treasure of religious people who keep their traditions. Violence, crime and assaults that nobody can stop. Only "The Whip", the legendary defender of the Indians, dares to confront the thugs.
Los temibles
Director
Wounded bank robber and his accomplice hole up at an out-of-the-way farm while his gunshot heals. The able-bodied one tries to renounce his outlaw lifestyle, but the cards are stacked against him.
Acorralados
Director
Conflicts in town force a guy to escape to a hiding-place in the countryside.
El poder negro (Black power)
Script
Massively built dock-worker has beef with munitions-smuggling gang, and meanwhile he's recruited to perform as a lucha-libre wrestler.
El poder negro (Black power)
Screenplay
Massively built dock-worker has beef with munitions-smuggling gang, and meanwhile he's recruited to perform as a lucha-libre wrestler.
El poder negro (Black power)
Director
Massively built dock-worker has beef with munitions-smuggling gang, and meanwhile he's recruited to perform as a lucha-libre wrestler.
Albures Mexicanos
Director
La mujer del diablo
Writer
A man who lives in a house in a little town in Guatemala that has a reputation of being a sinful place, falls in love with a young girl.
La mujer del diablo
Director
A man who lives in a house in a little town in Guatemala that has a reputation of being a sinful place, falls in love with a young girl.
Santo vs. Black Magic Woman
Director
Santo, the saint of the wrestling ring, faces off against an evil voodoo priestess intent on making a more powerful atomic bomb!
La tigresa
Director
Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents.
La satánica
Adaptation
She's got a sugar-daddy paying her bills, and while she's stringing him along, she meets somebody her own age that she reallytruly falls in love. And it turns out he's the son of her rich dude.
La satánica
Director
She's got a sugar-daddy paying her bills, and while she's stringing him along, she meets somebody her own age that she reallytruly falls in love. And it turns out he's the son of her rich dude.
The Beasts of Terror
Director
A young heiress is kidnapped by two aspiring thieves who are then captured by a mad scientist. It's up to the police, Santo, and Blue Demon to rescue them.
Santo and the Golden Eagle
Director
The rich landowner La Tigresa suffers several attacks and seeks help from Santo. The attacks continue but Santo protects and she falls for him.
Dos mujeres y un hombre
Director
Есения
Director
Две девушки страстно любят бравого офицера Освальдо. Одна, живущая в роскоши, обладает ангельским характером и неизлечимо больна. Другая, воспитанная цыганами, с детства лишена всего, что принадлежит ей по праву. Можно ли найти выход из этого любовного треугольника? Черные очи и гибкий стан красавицы Есении навек сразили хладнокровного покорителя женщин, капитана Освальдо... Его величество Случай вмешивается в их судьбу... Экзотика цыганской жизни, трагическая любовь и счастливый финал...
El ídolo
Director
The story of a magnate who is dedicated to doing shady business. This man is involved in a series of problems when his wife, his lover and his secretary find out about the relationship he has with each one.
El juicio de los hijos
Director
Widow with teenaged children faces hostility from her dead husband's mother, who seems to know a family secret she wants to use against her.
Los problemas de mamá
Director
Mama's four girls are all newlyweds or engaged to be married. Four hubby/fiances plus inlaws = wacky complications.You betcha.
Las impuras
Director
Arriba las manos Texano
Director
Series western, sequel to Manuel Saldivar el Texano.
El día de las madres
Director
Three interwoven stories about generational conflicts beween single mothers and their adolescent/adult children.
Una horca para el Texano
Director
Escalating tensions within a frontier town besieged by outlaws.
No se mande, profe
Director
Strait-laced teacher at a girl's school unleashes his wild side when he debuts as a pop singer in his spare time.
Passport to Death
Director
The Secret Agent Lafargue locates the evil Professor Marcus headquarters, who with the help of Dr. Bellini and an android of his invention, plan to conquer the world. Lafargue is discovered and severely injured, so he is unable to remember where it is the basis of Marcus or what their plan. To resolve this situation the authorities call the Agent Zero team.
Santo the Silver Mask vs. The Ring Villains
Director
Santo fights a group of phony spiritualists who are trying to scam his god-daughter out of her 6 million peso inheritance.
Cómo pescar marido
Director
Bride-to-be on the prowl for a suitable mate.
Planet of the Female Invaders
Director
A group of sexy space vixens flies down to Earth, sets up a shop at a carnival (disguising their ship as a ride), and kidnap some earthlings in their scheme to conquer our planet. The humans, including Marcos, a crooked boxer and our hero, Silvia, his love interest, and a gang of comical mobsters out to kill Marcos, are taken to the women’s home planet. There they are held prisoner by the evil queen Adastrea and aided by her selfless twin Alburnia. Meanwhile, a standard issue hunky scientist back on Earth, who happens to be Silvia’s boss, tries to rescue them.
Санто против вторжения марсиан
Director
Умные марсиане прилетают на Землю учить землян как нужно жить, но Санто показывает им что и к чему
Seguiré tus pasos
Director
José María is an orphan child who lives in desperation until brother José finds him. The priest helps the boy channel his anger and transform his sadness into energy and love.
La Venus maldita
Director
Man with fatal illness encourages wife and best friend to have fun together.
The Clutching Hand
Director
Two wrestling stars must investigate strange deaths and a secret criminal organization led by a madman who becomes invisible.
Los endemoniados del ring
Director
The ring possessed "Angel" and "Satan" not accept under any circumstances the trickery proposal with "Tarzan Beto" idol of the moment.
Una mujer sin precio
Director
Exotic dancer with a masochistic streak can't decide which of two boyfriends treats her more thrillingly badly.
Planetary Giants
Director
Daniel Wolf, scientist with a brand new rocket ship and a girlfriend/secretary is sent to 'the planet of the eternal night' to fight the guy who has threatened earth. He is supposed to go alone, but his assistant sneaks in the ship somehow, along with two other guys.
El secreto del texano
Director
Mexican feature film
Para todas hay
Director
Two young charros have been playing the field, and each one has three potential fiancees lined up... Now that it's time to get serious and move toward marriage, the women start politicking among themselves to discredit each other.
Adventure at the Center of the Earth
Director
After a young man is killed in an unexplored subterranean cavern and his girlfriend driven mad by something she saw there, a track found at the scene cannot be identified with any known animal and thus a scientific expedition is launched to find out just what it is that is living there.
Neutron vs. the Maniac
Director
Neutron, a wrestler/superhero, investigates a series of murders at a sanitarium.
Neutron Battles the Karate Assassins
Director
Superhero wrestler Neutron battles a gang of robotic assassins who use their hands and feet as deadly weapons.
El texano
Director
A young man is executed for a murder he didn't commit. His brother shows up to clear his name and see that proper justice is done.
La sombra del mano negra
Director
Semi-comic series western about two brothers what is good-guys. From the series "Los Hermanos Barragan."
Los novios de mis hijas
Director
Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly suitable young man for each of them. If there are any out there that meet her standards.
Los hermanos Barragán
Director
Cowboy-hero B-western with comical overtones. First of two in series.
Qué bonito es querer
Director
La huella macabra
Director
(Sequel to El Rostro Infernal.) Count Brankovan, a vampire, returns from the dead to avenge himself himself on some humans who previously had been bugging him.
Bring Me the Vampire
Director
A group of would-be beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will, and discover that they must spend the night in a spooky castle to gain their inheritance. A spooky housekeeper and a man who seems to be a vampire are just two of the obstacles that might deter them.
Los parranderos
Director
Romantic complications and silliness when two farmhands are sent to the next town to track down their employer's daughter and baby-mama from thirty years earlier.
Rostro infernal
Director
Investigating a series of kidnappings leads a police inspector to confront a scientist trying to gain immortality.
House of the Frights
Director
Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.
La fierecilla del puerto
Director
Young love and the obstacles thereunto, in colorful, exotic Veracruz.
Ghost Town
Director
A vampire is on the loose in an old west town.
Two Cheerful Hawks
Director
Alfredo B. Crevenna helms this charming romantic comedy about a pair of skirt-chasers wooing the two lovely daughters of a land baron — who rebuffs the young swains to protect his girls.
Sol en llamas
Screenplay
A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.
Sol en llamas
Director
A powerful rancher loses his power and wealth during the Revolution, and his daughter falls in love with a revolutionary.
Azahares rojos
Director
Family with young-adult children returns to Mexico after many years in Spain.
Senda prohibida
Screenplay
The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.
Senda prohibida
Director
The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.
Chicas casaderas
Director
Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.
Teresa
Director
Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.
Quinceañera
Director
María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.
Gutierritos
Director
Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
The New Invisible Man
Writer
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.
The New Invisible Man
Director
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.
Yambaó
Director
A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate.
Talpa
Director
Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a well-to-do family man; the other, Estaban (Jamie Fernandez), is one step above a wastrel. When Tanilo is felled by illness, Estaban is forced to take over the family's blacksmith business. He also inaugurates a romance with Tanilo's attractive young wife Juana (Lilia Prado). Punishment is eventually doled out in a manner which suggests that God Himself is exacting retribution on the adulterous couple. Originally released at 87 minutes, Talpa was pared down to 73 minutes for American consumption.
Love and Sin
Director
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.
Pueblo, canto y esperanza
Director
Anthology-movie with episodes set in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia.
Where the Circle Ends
Adaptation
A woman murders her lover. Her husband and his mistress are also having murder-shaped thoughts, and their three counterplots all get tangled together. Everybody loses.
Where the Circle Ends
Director
A woman murders her lover. Her husband and his mistress are also having murder-shaped thoughts, and their three counterplots all get tangled together. Everybody loses.
Una mujer en la calle
Director
An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady.
Si volvieras a mi
Director
Orquídeas para mi esposa
Adaptation
Orquídeas para mi esposa
Director
El gran autor
Director
A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.
A Doll's House
Director
Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen. Mexican version of " A Doll's House." A spendthrift wife hides from her banker husband that she is in debt to a dishonorable employee her husband has fired.
Dos mundos y un amor
Writer
Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.
Dos mundos y un amor
Director
Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.
Rebellion of the Hanged
Director
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
Fruto prohibido
Director
A writer is given custody of his editor's daughter after she is orphaned. Once she grows up, they become romantically involved.
Passionate
Director
Returning veteran with PTSD/amnesia returns home and gets tangled up in a criminal investigation.
Angélica
Director
Gangster-y club-owner vs. chorus girl. Blackmail, murder...
My Wife and the Other
Director
A classic story of a husband who meets a younger woman, and begins a love affair.
Girls in Uniform
Director
Orphan Manuela's passionate crush on her teacher Lucila scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school.
La mujer sin lagrimas
Writer
Melodrama about a girl brought up by a stepmother.
La mujer sin lagrimas
Director
Melodrama about a girl brought up by a stepmother.
Huellas del pasado
Director
Authoritarian husband dumps his wife and keeps their son. Twenty years later...
Otra primavera
Director
His wife dies and now he's free to marry his mistress and adopt their children officially. How will this play out?
El rencor de la tierra
Director
Mexican movie
La dama del velo
Director
Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...
Algo flota sobre el agua
Director
Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.
The Kneeling Goddess
Additional Writing
Legendary superstar María Félix, stars in this melodrama noir playing the role of Raquel, a woman who has a passionate love affair with married aristocrat Antonio. However, a sensual sculpture untitled “The Kneeling Goddess” and modeled after Raquel will lead Antonio down a memory lane he'd rather soon forget.
Adam, Eve and the Devil
Writer
Adam, Eve and the Devil
Director
Santa
Writer
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito
Ni sangre ni arena
Adaptation
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.
The Night of the Mayans
Writer
A white man seduces a local girl in an isolated Mayan village, which makes gods unhappy.