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Enrique Lucero
Enrique Lucero (October 9, 1920 – May 9, 1989) was a Mexican-American film actor. He was known for such films as '' Macario'' (1960) and ''Two Mules for Sister Sara'' (1970). He also played the role of the "Indian Chief" in ''Buck and the Preacher'' (1972), Sidney Poitier's directorial debut, and Geronimo in the 1979 miniseries ''Mr. Horn''. Selected filmography * '' La historia del tango'' (1949) - Ángel Villalva Jr. * ''La voz de mi ciudad'' (1953) * ''The Road of Life'' (1956) - Lic. José Gutiérrez * ''Sierra Baron'' (1958) - Anselmo * ''Villa!!'' (1958) - Tenorio * ''Pistolas de oro'' (1959) * '' The Little Savage'' (1959) - Bit Role (uncredited) * ''Beyond All Limits'' (1959) * ''Sonatas'' (1959) - Militar prisionero * ''Bendito entre las mujeres'' (1959) - (uncredited) * ''La Fièvre Monte à El Pao'' (1959) - Vila (uncredited) * '' Macario'' (1960) - La muerte * ''Simitrio'' (1960) - Papá de Simitrio (uncredited) * ''¡Viva la soldadera!'' (1960) - (uncredited) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macario (film)
''Macario'' is a 1960 Mexican supernatural drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón, starring Ignacio López Tarso and Pina Pellicer. It is based on the novel of the same name by B. Traven, loosely based in an old border legend, set in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (modern-day Mexico). It was the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Additionally, it was also entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. ''Macario'' has been widely regarded by critics and audiences as one of the greatest Mexican films ever made. Plot The story centers on Macario, a poor Indigenous woodcutter, during Colonial Mexico, on the eve of the Day of the Dead, who lives embittered for being so poor and hungry. His economic situation keeps him and his family at the edge of starvation. After he sees a procession of roast turkeys, his dream is to eat a whole roast turkey just by himself. He announces in front of his wife and children that he will not eat unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bloody Vampire
''The Bloody Vampire'' ( es, El vampiro sangriento) is a 1962 Mexican horror film directed by Miguel Morayta and starring Begoña Palacios, Erna Martha Bauman, and Carlos Agostí. It is part of a duology of vampire films directed by Morayta, followed by ''The Invasion of the Vampires'' (1963). Plot Count Cagliostro (Antonio Raxel), whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter Inés (Begoña Palacios) to confront Count Frankenhausen (Carlos Agostí) and his vampire henchmen. Cast *Begoña Palacios as Inés Cagliostro * Erna Martha Bauman as Countess Eugenia Frankenhausen * Raúl Farell as Dr. Ricardo Peisser *Bertha Moss as Frau Hildegarda * Carlos Agostí as Count Sigfrido von Frankenhausen *Pancho Córdova as Justus (as Francisco A. Cordova) *Antonio Raxel as Count Valsamo de Cagliostro *Enrique Lucero as Lázaro *Lupe Carriles as Lupe, the innkeeper *Nathanael León Nathanael is a biblical given name derived from the Hebrew נ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' is a 1969 American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy ( Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the " Sundance Kid" ( Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia to escape the posse. In 2003, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The American Film Institute ranked ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' as the 73rd-greatest American film on its " AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)" list, and number 50 on the original list. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were ranked 20th-greatest heroes on " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild Bunch
''The Wild Bunch'' is a 1969 American epic Revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The plot concerns an aging outlaw gang on the Mexico–United States border trying to adapt to the changing modern world of 1913. The film was controversial because of its graphic violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means. The screenplay was co-written by Peckinpah, Walon Green, and Roy N. Sickner. ''The Wild Bunch'' was filmed in Technicolor and Panavision, in Mexico, notably at the Hacienda Ciénaga del Carmen, deep in the desert between Torreón and Saltillo, Coahuila, and on the Rio Nazas. ''The Wild Bunch'' is noted for intricate, multi-angle, quick-cut editing using normal and slow motion images, a revolutionary cinema technique in 1969. The writing of Green, Peckinpah, and Sickner was nominated for a best screenplay Oscar, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guns For San Sebastian
''Guns for San Sebastian'' () is a 1968 action-adventure film based on the 1962 novel ''A Wall for San Sebastian'', written by Rev. Fr. William Barnaby "Barby" Faherty, S.J. The film is directed by Frenchman Henri Verneuil, it stars Anthony Quinn, Anjanette Comer and Charles Bronson. The score is by Ennio Morricone, who would then use his work in this film as an inspiration for the main theme in '' The Mercenary''. Filming took place in Sierra de Órganos National Park in the town of Sombrerete, Mexico It was made as a co-production between France, Italy, Mexico, and the United States. It is a rare instance of a Spaghetti Western actually being shot in Mexico, instead of substituting Spain or some similar European location. Plot In 1746 Mexico, a womanizing outlaw, the army deserter Leon Alastray (Anthony Quinn) is wounded and pursued by the Spanish military into a church. He is given sanctuary by a sympathetic priest (Sam Jaffe), who will not turn Alastray over to the milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bandits (1967 Film)
''The Bandits''/''Los Bandidos'' is a 1967 Mexican/American international co-production starring Robert Conrad who co-wrote and co-directed the film with the producer Alfredo Zacarías. The film was shot in Mexico in 1966 during a hiatus of Conrad's ''The Wild Wild West'' television series but the film was not released in the US until May 1979.p. 20 Pitts, Michael R. ''Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films'' 2nd ed. McFarland, 2012 Several of the crew such as cinematographer Ted Voigtlander, stunt director Whitey Hughes, co-editor Grant K. Smith and co-producers James M. George and Harry Harvey Jr. worked with Robert Conrad on ''The Wild Wild West''. Plot Three Americans drifting through Mexico find themselves caught up in the French intervention in Mexico. Cast *Robert Conrad as Chris Barrett *Roy Jenson as Josh Racker *Jan-Michael Vincent as Taye 'Boy' Brown *Manuel López Ochoa as Valdez *Pedro Armendáriz Jr. as Priest *María Duval María Dussauge Ortiz (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traitors Of San Angel
''Traitors of San Angel'' (Spanish:''Los traidores de San Ángel'') is a 1967 action film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and starring Ian Hendry, Lautaro Murúa and Graciela Borges.Cowie & Elley p.26 It was a co-production between Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico and United States. Cast * Ian Hendry as Nick Thomas * Lautaro Murúa as Fonseca * Graciela Borges as Marina * Maurice Evans as James Keefe * Enrique Lucero as Rodriguez * Esther Sandoval Esther Sandoval (28 December 1928 – 6 February 2006) was a Puerto Rican actress and a pioneer in Puerto Rico's television. Early years Sandoval was born Esther María González in Ponce where she received her primary and secondary education. ... as Dona Consuelo * José de San Antón as Director Carcel References Bibliography * Peter Cowie & Derek Elley. ''World Filmography: 1967''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977. External links * 1967 films 1960s action films Chilean action films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarzan And The Valley Of Gold
''Tarzan and the Valley of Gold'' is a 1966 Eastmancolor adventure film starring Mike Henry in his debut as Tarzan. The Panavision film, produced by Sy Weintraub, written by Clair Huffaker, and directed by Robert Day, is remembered for its very James Bond-like portrayal of a tropical suited, globetrotting Tarzan. It was released on July 1, 1966. The novelization by Fritz Leiber was the first authorised Tarzan novel by an author other than Edgar Rice Burroughs, and was officially the 25th book in the series. Plot Augustus Vinero is a wealthy international criminal known for his habit of sending explosive wristwatches or necklaces to those not in his favor. When he hears of Ramel, a small boy who may know the location of the fabled Valley of Gold in Mexico, he sends a death squad of plainclothes mercenaries which destroys the farmhouse (and its inhabitants) where Ramel is being sheltered. Prior to his murder, the head of the farmhouse summoned his old friend Tarzan to track th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Always Further On
''Always Further On'' ( es, Tarahumara (Cada vez más lejos)) is a 1965 Mexican drama film directed by Luis Alcoriza. It won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 38th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Ignacio López Tarso * Jaime Fernández * Aurora Clavel * Eric del Castillo * Berta Castillón * Pancho Córdova * Regino Herrera See also * List of submissions to the 38th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Mexico has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1957. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outsid ... References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major Dundee
''Major Dundee'' is a 1965 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, and James Coburn. Written by Harry Julian Fink, the film is about a Union cavalry officer who leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners, and Indian scouts on an expedition into Mexico during the American Civil War to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding United States bases and settlements in the New Mexico territory. ''Major Dundee'' was filmed in various locations in Mexico. The movie was filmed in Eastman Color by Pathécolor, print by Technicolor. Plot During the American Civil War, Union cavalry officer Major Amos Dundee has been relieved of his command for an unspecified tactical error at the Battle of Gettysburg (it is implied that he showed too much initiative) and sent to head a prisoner-of-war camp in the New Mexico Territory. After a family of ranchers and a relief column of cavalry are massacred by an Ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Has Many Faces
''Love Has Many Faces'' is a 1965 American drama romance film directed by Alexander Singer, and written by Marguerite Roberts. Nancy Wilson sings the title song and Edith Head designed Lana Turner's clothes. Plot When a dead American "beach boy" is washed up on a beach in Acapulco, the police do an investigation to see if it was murder. Lieutenant Riccardo Andrade (Enrique Lucero) of the Mexican police interviews three suspects. Hank Walker (Hugh O'Brian) is another beach boy who works as a gigolo and also blackmails vacationing middle-aged American women. Pete Jordan (Cliff Robertson) is a former beach boy who married rich American Kit (Lana Turner). Kit met Pete when he was selling his blood and bought all of him. The dead man was wearing a bracelet engraved "LOVE IS THIN ICE," which the police discover was given to him by Kit. They also discover that he'd had an affair with her. In addition to the police, the dead American's deserted girlfriend, Carol Lambert ( Stefanie Pow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Revólver Sangriento
''El revólver sangriento'' ("The Bloody Revolver" in English) is a 1964 Mexican western (genre), western-drama film directed by Miguel M. Delgado, and starring Luis Aguilar (actor), Luis Aguilar, Lola Beltrán, Flor Silvestre (actress), Flor Silvestre, Emilio Fernández, Manuel Capetillo, Antonio Aguilar, and Irma Dorantes, as credited in the film's theatrical posters. The lead actors were credited in an unusual "rigorous appearance on the screen" style, where the film's main characters are not ordered by importance, but by on-screen appearance. Written for the screen by Alfredo Salazar, the film was a production of Cinematográfica Calderón and follows the account of a silver-plated revolver, which has a deadly curse and falls on the hands of different men. Plot The film opens in a cave with a close-up of Juan Chávez's (Luis Aguilar (actor), Luis Aguilar) silver-plated revolver as he glances at a "Wanted" poster that offers a reward, dead or alive, for his capture. A suspicious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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