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Ángel Álvarez
Ángel Álvarez (26 September 1906 – 13 December 1983) was a prolific Spanish film actor. He made over 205 film appearances between 1945 and 1982. He is probably best known for his western films of the 1960s and 1970s. He appeared in Spaghetti Western films such as ''Navajo Joe'', and '' Django'' in 1966 opposite Franco Nero. He often played a plump store keeper or a bank manager. Selected filmography * '' Eloisa Is Under an Almond Tree'' (1943) - Espectador del cine (uncredited) * '' El destino se disculpa'' (1945) - Conserje de la radio (uncredited) * ''La luna vale un millón'' (1945) - Financiero (uncredited) * ''Cinco lobitos'' (1945) * ''Unknown Path'' (1946) - Barman * ''El crimen de Pepe Conde'' (1946) * ''María Fernanda, la Jerezana'' (1947) * ''Fuenteovejuna'' (1947) * ''Don Quixote'' (1947) - Segundo Fraile (Second Friar) (uncredited) * ''Anguish'' (1947) - Bibliotecario * ''El marqués de Salamanca'' (1948) - Recepcionista hotel * ''Pequeñeces...'' (1950) - cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Django (1966 Film)
''Django'' ( ) is a 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed and co-written by Sergio Corbucci, starring Franco Nero (in his breakthrough role) as the title character alongside Loredana Nusciak, José Bódalo, Ángel Álvarez and Eduardo Fajardo. The film follows a Union soldier-turned-drifter and his companion, a mixed-race prostitute, who become embroiled in a bitter, destructive feud between a gang of Confederate Red Shirts and a band of Mexican revolutionaries. Intended to capitalize on and rival the success of Sergio Leone's ''A Fistful of Dollars'', Corbucci's film is, like Leone's, considered to be a loose, unofficial adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's ''Yojimbo''.Cox, 2009 The film earned a reputation as one of the most violent films ever made at the time, and was subsequently refused a certificate in the United Kingdom until 1993, when it was issued an 18 certificate (the film was downgraded to a 15 certificate in 2004). A commercial success upon release, ''Django' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Galeoto
''The Great Galeoto'' (Spanish: ''El gran Galeoto'') is a 1951 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Ana Mariscal and Rafael Durán.de España p.119 Synopsis Ernesto is a young musician who, when his father dies, is forced to stay in Madrid, sharing a house with his executor Julio Villamil, married to the actress Teresa Labisbal, with whom the young man was platonically in love. Although the young man's behavior is impeccable, the rumor created by third parties makes Julio want to fight Ernesto in a duel to the death. Cast * Valeriano Andrés as Pedro * Manuel Arbó as Secretario de Ernesto * Rafael Bardem as Gabriel * Francisco Bernal as Peón del coto de caza * Xan das Bolas as Cochero * Raúl Cancio as Alcaraz * María Cañete * Manuel de Juan as Miembro del consejo * Mary Delgado as Mercedes * Rafael Durán as Ernesto Acedo * Juan Espantaleón as Don Severo Villamil * Fernando Fernández de Córdoba as Uceda * Concha Fern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Lie (1956 Film)
''The Big Lie'' (Spanish:''La gran mentira'') is a 1956 Spanish film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Francisco Rabal, Madeleine Fischer and Jacqueline Pierreux.de España p.119 Synopsis César Neira, a declining actor, sees his chance to succeed again thanks to the inclusion in his film of a paralyzed teacher who has become very popular thanks to a radio contest. Cast * Francisco Rabal as César Neira * Madeleine Fischer as Teresa Camps * Jacqueline Pierreux as Sara Millán * Manolo Morán as Representante de César * Emilio Alonso * Julio F. Alymán as Maquillador * Rafaela Aparicio as Vecina de La Molina * Rafael Bardem as Tío de Teresa * Gustavo Biosca * Irene Caba Alba as Vecina de La Molina * Rafael Calvo Revilla as Doctor * José Calvo as Productor que habla con censor * Pedro Chicote * Carlos Ciscar * Rafael Cortés * Bobby Deglané * Teresa del Río * Juan Domenech as Paulino Sándalo * Ángel de Echenique * Ramón Elías a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coyote's Justice
''The Coyote's Justice'' (Spanish: ''La justicia del Coyote'') is a 1956 Mexican-Spanish western film directed by Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent and starring Abel Salazar, Gloria Marín and Manuel Monroy.de España p.215 Based on the character El Coyote created by J. Mallorquí José Mallorquí y Figuerola (12 February 1913 – 7 November 1972) was a prolific Spanish writer under over 30 pseudonyms of hundreds of novellas by various popular genres. As J. Mallorquí he is internationally known for his 192 books' serie .... It was a sequel to the 1955 film '' The Coyote''. Plot Don Cesar de Echague, masquerading as the avenger "El Coyote", continues the American troops' fight against injustice and perversion of justice against the Hispanic population of California in the mid-1840s. At the same time, he courts the charming Leonor de Acevedo as a nobleman who lives inconspicuously. She rejects him at first because she only knows him as a cowardly nobleman, but rewards hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Red Fish
''The Red Fish'' (Spanish: ''Los peces rojos'') is a 1955 Spanish thriller film directed by José Antonio Nieves CondeMira p. 237 and written by Carlos Blanco with original idea by Carlos Blanco. Plot Ivón, a chorus girl, and Hugo, a failed writer, turn up at a provincial hotel on a stormy night. They have come from Madrid with Carlos, Hugo's son, born nineteen years earlier after a casual affair. They decide to lean over the cliffs to look at the angry waves down below – and Carlos falls to his death. References Bibliography * Mira, Alberto. ''Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2010. External links * 1955 films 1950s Spanish-language films 1950s crime thriller films Spain in fiction Madrid in fiction Asturias in fiction Spanish black-and-white films Films directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde Spanish thriller films 1950s Spanish films {{crime-thriller-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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