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Benito Alazraki
Benito Alazraki (27 October 1921 – 6 June 2007) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1955 and 1995. He was the father of advertising executive Carlos Alazraki and grandfather of director Gary Alazraki. Selected filmography * ''Roots'' (1955) * ''Where Are Our Children Going?'' (1958) * ''Dangers of Youth'' (1960) * ''Invincible Guns'' (1960) * ''Rebel Without a House'' (1960) * '' Muñecos infernales'' (1961) * '' Santo Contra los Zombis'' (1961) * ''Espiritismo'' (1961, released as ''Spiritism'' in the US), an adaptation of "The Monkey's Paw "The Monkey's Paw" is a horror short story by English author W. W. Jacobs, first published in the collection '' The Lady of the Barge'' in 1902. In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of The Monkey's Paw, but the wishes come with ...". References External links * 1921 births 2007 deaths Film directors from Mexico City Mexican male screenwriters 20th-century screenwr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebel Without A House
''Rebel Without a House'' (Spanish:''Rebelde sin casa'') is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Benito Alazraki and starring Germán Valdés, Ana Bertha Lepe and Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo.Monsiváis & Kraniauskas p.117 Cast * Germán Valdés as Teodoro Silva * Ana Bertha Lepe as Julieta * Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo as Don Virgilio Danuncio * Carlos Riquelme as Lic. Vivaldi * Marcelo Chávez as Señor San Pedro * Arturo Soto Rangel as Señor juez * Hortensia Clavijo as Secuaz de San Pedro * Josefina Holguín as Secuaz de San Pedro * Salvador Flores as Agustín * Salvador Gómez * Yolanda Margain * Armando Acosta as Policía * Daniel Arroyo as Espectador * Carlos Bravo y Fernández * Blanca Carrera * Ángel Di Stefani as Hombre infiel * Enedina Díaz de León as Espectadora * Pedro Elviro as Cuidador * Jesús Gómez as Policía * Leonor Gómez as Vendedora de papaya * Guillermo Hernández as Criminal pelón * Chel López as Inspector * Concepción M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Directors From Mexico City
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2007 Deaths
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1921 Births
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The Monkey's Paw
"The Monkey's Paw" is a horror short story by English author W. W. Jacobs, first published in the collection '' The Lady of the Barge'' in 1902. In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of The Monkey's Paw, but the wishes come with an enormous price for interfering with fate. It has been adapted many times in other media, including plays, films, TV series, operas, stories and comics, as early as 1903. It was first adapted to film in 1915 as a British silent film directed by Sidney Northcote. The film (now lost) starred John Lawson, who also played the main character in Louis N. Parker's 1907 stage play.Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 158. . Plot The short story involves Mr. and Mrs. White and their grown son, Herbert. Sergeant-Major Morris, a friend who served with the British Army in India, comes by for dinner and introduces them to a mummified monkey's paw. An old ''fakir'' p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Curse Of The Doll People
''The Curse of the Doll People'' ( es, Muñecos infernales "Infernal Dolls"), or ''The Devil Doll Men'', is a 1961 Mexican horror film directed by Benito Alazraki. It was produced by Cinematográfica Calderón S.A. The screenplay by Alfredo Salazar is an uncredited adaptation of the novel Burn Witch Burn! by A. Merritt. Plot The story surrounds four men who are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon after being surrounded, evil 'doll' people begin to kill their family members. Cast * Elvira Quintana as Karina * Ramón Gay as Dr. Armando Valdés * Roberto G. Rivera as Molinar * Quintin Bulnes as Zandor * Alfonso Arnold Release K. Gordon Murray imported the film to the US and added several English-language scenes. Reception Writing in ''The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia'', academic Peter Dendle Peter Dendle is a professor of English at Penn State Mont Alto, teaching classes on folklore, 20th and 21st century representations of the Middle Ages, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invincible Guns
''Invincible Guns'' (Spanish: ''Pistolas invencibles'') is a 1960 Mexican western film directed by Benito Alazraki and starring Elvira Quintana, Armando Silvestre and Roberto G. Rivera.Riera p.86 Cast * Elvira Quintana as Carmen Montenegro * Armando Silvestre as Pancho Corona * Roberto G. Rivera as Salvador Jiménez (Chava) * José Elías Moreno * Emma Roldán as Tía Juana * José Eduardo Pérez as Toro * Emilio Garibay * Alfonso Arnold * José Chávez * Julián de Meriche * Agustín Fernández as Esbirro del toro * Magda Monzón as Mujer de Julio * Rubén Márquez as Hombre en cantina * Ramón Sánchez as Esbirro del toro * Hernán Vera Hernán Rogelio Vera Pavía (28 October 1892 – 29 January 1964) was a Mexican actor known for usually playing short, small roles, usually as a bartender, during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He began his career in theater, with some works ... References Bibliography * Emilio García Riera. ''Historia docum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Alazraki
Carlos Alazraki Grossmann (born October 8, 1947 in Mexico City) is a Mexican advertising executive. Alazraki is the founder, president, and CEO of ''Alazraki & Asociados Publicidad'' agency and the previous president of the Asociación Mexicana de Agencias de Publicidad (AMAP, Mexican Association of Advertising Agencies). He is the son of film director Benito Alazraki and son-in-law of the late Samy Yeroham, owner of Topeka. He is also the father of director Gary Alazraki. Career Alazraki studied Information Science and Techniques at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA). He started his career in the United States with the Hal Greenfader, Publicis Romero and JWT agencies, later to Spain to work at Ibérica Televisión where he shot 13 television shows and a film with his father, Benito Alazraki. Returning to Mexico, he worked for Telesistema Mexicano (now Televisa) with Luis de Llano Sr.; after a merger and the formation of Televisa, Alazraki and his colleague Adolfo Rodríg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangers Of Youth
''Dangers of Youth'' (Spanish: ''Peligros de juventud'') is a 1960 Mexican drama film directed by Benito Alazraki and starring Elvira Quintana, Tere Velázquez and Fernando Luján.Riera p.107 Cast * Elvira Quintana as Sue * Tere Velázquez as Catalina * Fernando Luján as Ricardo * Manuel 'Loco' Valdés as Charol * Roberto G. Rivera as Federico - Papá de Catalina * Aída Araceli as Elsa * Guillermina Téllez Girón as Alma * Xavier Loyá as Andrés * Héctor Godoy as Alfredo * Judy Ponte as Amiga de Matilde * Erika Rener as Matilde * José Luis Moreno * Emma Roldán as Lupe * Guillermina Mayaudón * Leopoldo Salazar * Ivan Richard Kraskin * Mario Cid * Enedina Díaz de León as Vendedora de flores * Ignacio Peón as Profesor * Hernán Vera Hernán Rogelio Vera Pavía (28 October 1892 – 29 January 1964) was a Mexican actor known for usually playing short, small roles, usually as a bartender, during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where Are Our Children Going?
''Where Are Our Children Going?'' ( es, ¿Adónde van nuestros hijos?) is a 1958 Mexican drama film directed by Benito Alazraki. It was released in 1958. It starred Dolores del Río. Based in the play ''Half Tone (Medio tono)'' by Rodolfo Usigli. Plot Martin (Tito Junco) is a bureaucrat who lives with his wife Rosa (Dolores del Río) and their children Julio, Gabriela, Sara, Victor and little Martin. When each of their children begins to face problems of life, Martin and Rosa reach a point in their long relationship in which indecision and clashes seem to become daily bread, and their marriage will be in danger ... together with the family unit of their children. Cast * Dolores del Río - as Rosa * Tito Junco - as Martin * Ana Bertha Lepe - as Gabriela * Martha Mijares - as Sara * Carlos Fernández - as Julio * León Michel - as Victor * Rogelio Jiménez-Pons - as Martin Jr. * Andrea Palma Andrea Palma (b. Trapani, 1644 or 1664 – d. 1730) was an 18th-century Italian archit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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