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Miguel Inclán
Miguel Inclán (1897–1956) was a Mexican film actor.Agrasánchez p.159 He became known for his villainous roles during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Selected filmography * ''Nobleza ranchera'' (1938) - Pánfilo * '' The Cemetery of the Eagles'' (1939) - Gral. Pedro Ma. Anaya * ''United But Not Mixed'' (1939) - Sisebuto Corrales * ''Heart of a Child'' (1939) - Señor Precusa * ''Los olvidados de Dios'' (1940) - Macario Hernández García 'El Gorrión' * ''The Hawk'' (1940) - Gaspar * ''Los de abajo'' (1940) - El meco * ''El charro Negro'' (1940) - Pancho, esbirro de Emilio * ''Mala yerba'' (1940) - Manuel * ''El monje loco'' (1940) * ''El Zorro de Jalisco'' (1941) - 'Sonaja' * '' Creo en Dios'' (1941) * '' Neither Blood Nor Sand'' (1941) - Jefe de Policía * '' Cuando los hijos se van'' (1941) - Patricio Gómez * '' El rápido de las 9.15'' (1941) - El Anticuario * ''Amor chinaco'' (1941) * ''¡Ay Jalisco... no te rajes!'' (1941) - Chueco Gallegos * ''El barbero prodigioso'' ... [...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] |
María Candelaria
''María Candelaria'' is a 1943 Mexican romantic film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz. It was the first Mexican film to be screened at the Cannes International Film Festival where it won the Grand Prix (now known as the Palme d'Or) becoming the first Latin American film to do so. ''María Candelaria'' would later win a Silver Ariel award for Best Cinematography. The film came to be regarded as one of Fernández's best works, in which he portrays the indigenous people of Mexico with innocence and dignity. Fernández has said that he wrote an original version of the plot on 13 napkins while sitting in a restaurant. He was anxious because he was dating Dolores del Río and could not afford to buy her a birthday present. The film was originally titled ''Xochimilco'' and the protagonist was named María del Refugio. Major themes in the film include melodrama, indigenousness, nationalism, and the beauty of Mexico. ''María Candelaria'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aventurera
''Aventurera'' ("Adventuress" in English) is a 1950 Mexican drama film directed by Alberto Gout and starring Ninón Sevilla and Andrea Palma (actress), Andrea Palma. It's considered a masterpiece of the ''Rumberas film''. The film features Pedro Vargas and Ana María González (Mexican singer), Ana María González as club singers. It was shot at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City with sets designed by the art director Manuel Fontanals. Plot The quiet life of the young Elena (Ninón Sevilla), changes dramatically when her mother runs off with her lover, causing the suicide of her father. Too depressed to remain in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Elena accepts a job as a secretary in Ciudad Juárez. A string of employers sexually harass her and she fights off each one. Hungry and still looking for work, Elena bumps into an old friend, Lucio (Tito Junco (Mexican actor), Tito Junco), who takes her to dinner at a cabaret, promising her a secretarial job and getting her drunk on expens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuando Los Hijos Odian
''Cuando los hijos odian'' (''When the Children Hate'') is a 1950 Mexican film. It stars Carlos Orellana. Cast * Carlos Orellana - Tachito * Amanda del Llano - Lolita * Eduardo Noriega - José Luis Durán * Fernando Soto - Stoperol, Ceferino Sánchez * Delia Magaña - Nicolasa * Miguel Inclán - Ramón González * Gloria Iturbe - Mamá de José Luis * Lupe Inclán Lupe Inclán (1895–1956) was a Mexican actress, which became very popular in Mexican Carpa Theatrical plays. She was also known for movies, mainly acting in supporting comic roles. She was known as one of the most prominent Mexican actresses i ... - Doña Carmelita * Alfonso Iglesias Padre - Compadre de Ramón * Salvador Lozano - Doctor Aceves * Antonio R. Frausto - Fortino External links * 1950 films 1950s Spanish-language films Mexican comedy-drama films 1950 comedy-drama films Mexican black-and-white films 1950s Mexican films {{1950s-Mexico-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salón México
''Salón México'' is a 1949 Mexican film noir directed by Emilio Fernández and co-written by Fernandez and Mauricio Magdaleno. It stars Marga López as a dance hall prostitute struggling to support her younger sister at an exclusive upscale school. It earned Lopez the 1950 Ariel Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor for Rodolfo Acosta. The film is cited as a classic example of the Mexican genre of ''Cabaretera'' (Dance Hall film) about "a sympathetic character, a good woman forced into a bad life by circumstances beyond her control." It was remade as a 1996 film of the same title starring María Rojo. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jesús Bracho. Synopsis Mercedes works at the "Salón México" dance hall as a singer, dancer and prostitute. She is secretly supporting Beatriz, her younger sister, at an exclusive all-girls' college. Beatriz does not suspect what Mercedes is doing and dreams of marrying Roberto, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maclovia (1948 Film)
''Maclovia'' (''Belleza Maldita'' in some countries) is a 1948 Mexican romantic drama film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring María Félix and Pedro Armendáriz. Plot summary On the beautiful Janitzio Island, in the middle of the Pátzcuaro Lake in Michoacán in Mexico lives Maclovia (María Félix), the beautiful daughter of a leader of Purépecha Indian community (Miguel Inclán). Maclovia loves José María Lopez (Pedro Armendáriz), a young very poor Indian. Maclovia's father refuses to the marriage of the couple. José María hopes to win the favor of the old man. But the arrival of a battalion causing the conflict when the brutal sergeant (Carlos López Moctezuma) develops eyes for Maclovia. Notes and references The movie was acclaimed during the 1949 edition of the Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinemat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Apache (film)
''Fort Apache'' is a 1948 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda. The film was the first of the director's "cavalry trilogy" and was followed by ''She Wore a Yellow Ribbon'' (1949) and ''Rio Grande'' (1950), both also starring Wayne. The screenplay was inspired by James Warner Bellah's short story "Massacre" (1947). The historical sources for "Massacre" have been attributed both to George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn and to the Fetterman Fight. The film was one of the first to present an authentic and sympathetic view of Native Americans. In his review of the DVD release of ''Fort Apache'' in 2012, ''New York Times'' movie critic Dave Kehr called it "one of the great achievements of classical American cinema, a film of immense complexity that never fails to reveal new shadings with each viewing" and "among the first 'pro-Indian' Westerns" in its portrayal of indigenous Americans with "sympathy and respect". T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nosotros Los Pobres
''Nosotros los pobres'' ("We, the Poor") is a 1948 Mexican drama film directed by Ismael Rodríguez, and starring Pedro Infante, Evita Muñoz "Chachita" and Blanca Estela Pavón. The film is first in a trilogy of movies, with Ustedes los ricos following in 1948 and Pepe el toro in 1953. All three were produced during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. It was originally titled ''Topillos y Planillas'' (named after two of the characters in the film and before the main character Jose "Pepe el Toro" was created), but later changed after its author Pedro de Urdimalas heard Abel Cureño (who's also in the film and at that time was playing a street vendor selling oranges in the radio show ''La Banda de Huipanguillo'') commenting (in character) about the unfair treatment of the poor people in the city exclaimed: "Nosotros los pobres somos despreciados por la gente; Nosotros los pobres no tenemos nada" ("We the poor are outcast by society; We the poor own nothing".) "Although it won no pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fugitive (1947 Film)
''The Fugitive'' is a 1947 drama film starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, based on the 1940 novel ''The Power and the Glory'' by Graham Greene. The film was shot on location in Mexico. Plot A nameless and conflicted Catholic priest is a fugitive in an unnamed Latin American state where religion is outlawed. He tries to escape the country but his efforts are thwarted by a crazy Native and other circumstances. He returns to his village. Another fugitive, a murderous North American bandit dubbed "El Gringo", has already arrived in town. The crazy Native and the police troops soon follow. While Maria Dolores- a beautiful Indian woman, entertains the men, the priest escapes from the back. As the priest escapes the bandit "El Gringo" holds off the troops in a gun battle. He ends up wounded. The priest and Maria Dolores escape. In another town the priest seeks sanctuary but the crazy Native tracks him down and tells him that "El Gringo" is dying and he must return to give him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tiger Of Jalisco
''The Tiger of Jalisco'' (Spanish:''El tigre de Jalisco'') is a 1947 Mexican western film directed by René Cardona and starring Armando Soto La Marina, Delia Magana and Manolo Fábregas.Agrasánchez p.15 Cast * Armando Soto La Marina as León Bravo * Delia Magaña as Cinda * Manolo Fábregas as Eduardo * Beatriz Aguirre as Rosita * Luis G. Barreiro as Don Pancho * Miguel Inclán as Tigre de Pedrero * Alfonso Bedoya as Bandido * Juan Pulido as Don Ruperto, señor alcalde * Fanny Schiller as Tía de Mary, tourist * Maria Stein as Mary, tourist * Teté Casuso as Rita, actress * Enrique Peña Franco * Manuel Noriega as Puerta * Julio Ahuet as Cantinero * Guillermo Bravo Sosa as Don Matías * José Escanero as Don Cenón * Edmundo Espino as Señor juez * María Gentil Arcos María Gentil Arcos (11 April 1905 – 18 July 1965) was a Spanish-Mexican actress of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema as a character actress in supporting roles. She was the sister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enamorada (film)
''Enamorada'' ("Enamoured") is a 1946 Mexican drama film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring María Félix and Pedro Armendáriz. It was shot at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City and on location in Puebla. The sets were designed by the art director Manuel Fontanals The film was remade in 1950 as '' The Torch'' with Armendáriz repeating his role alongside Paulette Goddard who was credited as an associate producer on the film. Plot The revolutionary José Juan Reyes (Pedro Armendáriz) takes the town of Cholula, Puebla and demands contributions from its wealthiest citizens for the Mexican Revolution. However, his plans are disrupted when he falls in love with the Señorita Beatriz Peñafiel (María Félix), the tempestuous daughter of the town's richest man. Notes The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. The film was inspired by William Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew''. The final scene was inspired by the final scene in Josef von Ster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Selva De Fuego
''La Selva de Fuego'' (''The Jungle of Fire'') is a 1945 Mexican romantic drama film directed by Fernando de Fuentes and starring Dolores del Río. Plot summary The movie develops into the Jungle of Chiapas in México. A beautiful woman named Estrella (Dolores del Río) lost in a savage zone of the jungle. She is found by a group of men who are being held into the jungle as social outcasts. Their leader, Luciano (Arturo de Córdova) is a man of integrity, but with an inexplicable hatred toward women. The presence of a sensual woman between several alone men causing a chaos that only Luciano can save. Curiosities According to María Félix in her autobiography (''Todas mis Guerras'' México, 1993), cause of this movie, she and Dolores del Río María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete (3 August 1904 – 11 April 1983), known professionally as Dolores del Río (), was a Mexican actress. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is regarded as the first major female La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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