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René Cardona Jr.
René Cardona Jr. (11 May 1939 – 5 February 2003) was a Mexican filmmaker and actor, son of Mexican director René Cardona, and the father of René Cardona III (also an actor and director). Biography Cardona Jr. began by acting in his father's films and then took over his father's craft in the mid-1960s, directing, writing, and producing over a hundred films over the years. He enjoyed some notoriety and success, particularly in the late 1970s, as a result of his ''Jaws-''inspired film ''Tintorera'' (1977), which became a cult classic. He capitalized on the spirit of cooperation between the Mexican, Spanish, and Italian film industries prevalent in the late 1970s and was able to make a spate of comparatively large-budget exploitation films with professional international casts and crews. He also managed to hire several once-popular American actors during this period, such as Joseph Cotten, John Huston, Gene Barry, Stuart Whitman, John Ireland, Arthur Kennedy, and Lion ... [...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] |
Blood Feast (1972 Film)
''Blood Feast'' ( Spanish: ''La noche de los mil gatos'', ''Night of a Thousand Cats'') is a 1972 Mexican exploitation horror film written and directed by René Cardona Jr. It was released in the United States in 1974. Plot Hugo, a playboy serial killer (Hugo Stiglitz), stalks beautiful women in his helicopter, seducing them under false pretenses and inviting them to his castle estate. There, he kills them in various gruesome ways with the help of his groundskeeper, Dorgo. He then uses their flesh to feed a plethora of cats that he keeps in a fenced-in pit, and preserves their pickled heads as trophies inside glass jars. A doctor who stops by the castle and eventually even his groundskeeper also become meals for the cats. Finally, one brave woman defies death and miraculously escapes his clutches, accidentally making a hole in the fence around the cat pit (which eventually allows the cats to escape). During the fight, Hugo gets hit in the face. Sensing his injury, the cats gang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiebre De Amor
''Fiebre de amor'' (in English: ''Love Fever'') is a 1985 Mexican musical drama film. This film won the Diosa Award for best picture. Plot A teenage girl with a crush on a young popular singing star daydreams about meeting and falling in love with him. She accidentally witnesses a mob murder and while attempting to escape the perpetrators she hides in a hotel bungalow. This happens to be the bungalow of her favorite singer and he gets roped into her escape from these men. The young star comes to her rescue in this romantic comedy with many songs and the Acapulco scenery as a backdrop. Cast * Lucero as Lucerito * Luis Miguel as himself * Lorena Velázquez * Guillermo Murray * Maribel Fernández * Carlos Monden * Monica Sanchez Navarro Soundtrack A soundtrack was released in 1985, with Luis Miguel Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born 19 April 1970) is a Puerto Rican-born Mexican singer, often referred to as ''El Sol de México'' (The Sun of Mexico), which is the nickname h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spicy Chile
''Spicy Chile'' (Spanish:''Chile picante'') is a 1983 Mexican comedy film directed by René Cardona Jr. and starring Andrés García, Angélica Chain and Alberto Rojas.Ramírez Berg p.127 Cast * Andrés García ... (segment " La infidelidad") * Angélica Chain ... (segment " La infidelidad") * Alberto Rojas ... (segment " La infidelidad") * Blanca Guerra ... (segment " Los Compadres") * Héctor Suárez ... (segment " Los Compadres") * Princesa Lea ... (segment " Los Compadres") * Alfredo Wally Barrón ... (segment " La infidelidad") * María Cardinal ... (segment " Los Compadres") * Karen Castello ... (segment " La infidelidad") * Eduardo de la Peña ... (segment " Los Compadres") * Alma Estela ... (segment " La infidelidad") * Irene Gallegos ... (segment " La infidelidad") * Juan Jaramillo ... (segment " La infidelidad") * Tito Junco ... (segment " Los Compadres") * Norma Lee ... (segment " La infidelidad") * Jeannette Mass ... (segment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Valle De Los Miserables
''El valle de los miserables'' (English: ''The valley of the miserable'') is a 1975 Mexican drama film. Based in the novel ''El Valle Nacional'' by Enrique Albuerne. Synopsis In 1909, the former Judge Cristobal Zamarripa Zamarripa is the owner of the Valle Nacional, the a plantation where snuff exploits workers, supported by the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends political prisoners as slaves. Others are engaged with the promise of high wages, but end up owing all to the company store. All are tortured, raped or killed when they protest. Another rancher (whose brother was killed by Zamarripa), will be punished, but flees and becomes revolutionary. The Zamarripa minions betray each other and they flee of the revolutionaries, led by fugitive landowner. The prisoners, upon release, massacred all the Zamarripa family. Cast * Mario Almada ... ''Don Cristobal Zamarripa'' * Ana Luisa Peluffo ... ''Concepción Zamarripa'' * Silvia Mariscal ... ''Margarita Zamarripa'' * Alma Muriel .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vuelve El Ojo De Vidrio
''Vuelve el ojo de vidrio'' (''The Glass Eye Returns'') is a 1970 Mexican revolution-epic film directed by René Cardona Jr., starring Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Manuel Capetillo, Eleazar García, Alejandro Reyna, and Guillermo Rivas. It is the sequel to the film '' El ojo de vidrio''. Cast *Antonio Aguilar as Porfirio Alcalá y Buenavista "El Ojo de Vidrio" *Flor Silvestre as María "La Coralillo" *Manuel Capetillo as Gumaro Buenavista *Eleazar García as Chelelo Buenavista *Alejandro Reyna as Plácido Buenavista * Guillermo Rivas as Jerónimo Buenavista * Arturo Martínez as Melitón Barbosa * Yuyú Varela as Socorro González "La Cocorito" *Alfredo Varela, Jr. as Mr. Fregoli "Fregolini" * Eduardo Alcázar as Colonel * Emma Arvizu as Colonel's Wife * Jorge Cabrera * Miguel Ángel Gómez as Melitón's Friend * René Cardona Jr. as Mission Priest * Mario García "Harapos" as Carrancista Soldier * Fernando Durán Rojas (as Fernando Durán) * Juan Hernández * Jesús ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Ojo De Vidrio (film)
''El ojo de vidrio'' (''The Glass Eye'') is a 1969 Mexican revolution-epic film directed by René Cardona Jr., starring Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Manuel Capetillo, Eleazar García, Alejandro Reyna and Guillermo Rivas. With a backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, the film recounts the story of former horse wrangler and bandit Porfirio Alcalá y Buenavista, who becomes the subject of a popularly known ''corrido'' along with his four cousins, after being notoriously heroic for raiding rich landlords and helping the poor. Being each notable for having one eye as the result of an injustice, the five heroes meet two townswomen and a theater actor who helps them disguise for their various raids. As their last raid attack, they take vengeance to the man who caused their tragedy, and evade revolutionary troops who call for peace after Porfirio Díaz resigns and is exiled. ''El ojo de vidrio'', shot on location in Tayahua, Zacatecas, was a box-office hit in Mexican theaters and partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Par De Robachicos
''Un par de robachicos'' is a 1967 Mexican comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ... starring Viruta and Capulina. External links * Mexican comedy films 1960s Spanish-language films 1960s Mexican films Films directed by René Cardona Jr. {{1960s-Mexico-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dos Pintores Pintorescos
''Dos pintores pintorescos'' is a 1967 Mexican comedy film starring Viruta and Capulina. It was shot in Eastmancolor with cinematography by Rosalío Solano. Plot Viruta and Capulina are two painters who work painting skyscrapers. One day, while lunching on a scaffolding, Capulina accidentally spills paint onto a policeman down under and he decides to escape by walking off the scaffolding. He falls, but he rapidly holds on to Viruta as he tries to stand against a window. On the other side of that window, a man named Lorenzo stabs a certain woman meanwhile his lover Carmina is watching. As Capulina stands next to the window, Lorenzo and Carmina see him as he tells them that he has "never seen death from up close". Lorenzo, believing that Capulina has witnessed the crime, searches for his gun meanwhile Capulina achieves safety when Viruta hauls the scaffolding downward as he picks him up. As both Viruta and Capulina get out of Lorenzo's reach, they encounter the policeman to whom th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Pistolas (1966 Film)
''Juan Pistolas'' is a 1966 Mexican adventure film directed by René Cardona Jr. and starring Javier Solís, Eleazar Garcia and Eva Norvind.Emilio García Riera. ''Historia documental del cine mexicano: Volume 13''. Universidad de Guadalajara, 1994. p. 42 Cast * Javier Solís * Eleazar Garcia * Eva Norvind * Aurora Alvarado * John Kelly * Crox Alvarado * Carlos Agostí * Guillermo Rivas * Carlos Ruffino * Stillman Segar * Antonio Raxel * José Eduardo Pérez * Fernando Yapur * Manuel Dondé er Manuel Dondé (1906 – 27 May 1976) was a Mexican film actor.Kohner p.355 He frequently played villains during his long film career. Selected filmography * ''La llorona'' (1933) * ''Soulless Women'' (1934) - Policía * ''El bastardo'' (1937 ... References External links * 1966 films 1966 adventure films Mexican adventure films 1960s Spanish-language films Films directed by René Cardona Jr. 1960s Mexican films Spanish-language adventure films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Movie
"The Movie" is the 54th episode of the sitcom ''Seinfeld''. It is the 14th episode of the fourth season, and first aired on January 6, 1993 on NBC. The episode revolves entirely around the characters' struggles to go to see a movie together. Plot Jerry has two stand-up acts scheduled for the same night; due to a delay in one of them, he cannot make both shows. A hopeful comedian, Buckles, hangs around to fill in when somebody drops out. Jerry agrees to lose his moment at the microphone, as he is meeting his friends to see a movie, ''CheckMate'', at 10:30. On his way to the movie theater, Jerry is grabbed by Buckles, who insists on sharing a taxicab. Buckles irritates Jerry by trying out a new comic routine. George has been chosen to buy the movie tickets. At the Paragon Theater, George joins the end of a queue. He taps the shoulder of the man in front of him, confirming that he does not have a ticket, which leads him to conclude he is in the line to purchase tickets. Elaine a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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