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Roberto Contreras
Roberto Contreras (1928–2000) was an American actor best known for playing Pedro in the TV western series ''The High Chaparral''. His film and television career spanned nearly 40 years from 1954 to 1993, including featured roles in ''Topaz'' and '' Scarface''. He played the bartender in “Heritage of Anger” S2 E37 of Have Gun Will Travel 6-6-59. The son of director Jaime Contreras, he was born on December 12, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. He is also the father of actor Luis Contreras. Contreras died on July 18, 2000, in Los Angeles, California. Filmography * 1954 ''La rebelión de los colgados'' * 1954 ''En carne viva'' * 1956 ''The Beast of Hollow Mountain'' as Carlos (uncredited) * 1957 '' The Black Scorpion'' as Chumacho (uncredited) * 1957 ''Ride a Violent Mile'' as Abruzo (uncredited) * 1958 ''The Flame Barrier'' as Village Indian * 1958 '' The Badlanders'' as Pepe (uncredited) * 1959 ''Holiday for Lovers'' as Policeman (uncredited) * 1959 '' The Miracle'' as Knife Gri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Conchos (film)
''Rio Conchos'' is a 1964 American Cinemascope Western film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Anthony Franciosa, Edmond O'Brien, and in his motion picture debut, Jim Brown, based on Clair Huffaker's novel "Guns of Rio Conchos" published in 1958. Huffaker's novel is reminiscent of the John Wayne films '' The Comancheros'' (for which Huffaker co-wrote the screenplay) and ''The Searchers''. The main female role, played by Wende Wagner in a black wig, has no English dialogue. ''Rio Conchos'' was filmed in Moab, Utah, though the Conchos River and most of the action of the film takes place in Mexico. Jerry Goldsmith's complete soundtrack was given a limited release on CD in January 2000 by Film Score Monthly that featured a tie-in title song by Johnny Desmond. On June 21, 2011, Shout! Factory released the film on DVD as part of a double feature with ''Take a Hard Ride'' (1975). Plot An ex-Confederate States Army officer (Richard Boone) named J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbarosa
''Barbarosa'' is a 1982 American Western film starring Willie Nelson and Gary Busey about a young cowboy on the run from the law who partners with a famous ''bandito'' and learns about life from him. "One of the best overlooked westerns of the last 20 years" according to reviewer LG Writer, and featured on an episode of the television show ''Siskel & Ebert'' dedicated to uncovering worthy sleepers, it is "a tale of betrayal, vendetta, honor, and dignity". ''Barbarosa'' was the first American-made film by noted Australian director Fred Schepisi. Plot Young Karl Westover, a post-Civil War Texas farm boy, accidentally kills his brother-in-law and must flee to Mexico. Early into his flight he is met by the outlaw Barbarosa, who, seconds later, kills a man who was following him, whom he seems to know. Barbarosa takes pity on Karl and shows him how to find water, make a fire, and catch an armadillo for his supper. He leaves and tells Karl to go home to Texas. Karl makes his way to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day Time Ended
''The Day Time Ended'' is a 1980 American science fiction film directed by John 'Bud' Cardos and starring Jim Davis, Christopher Mitchum and Dorothy Malone. The film was originally titled ''Earth's Final Fury''; this was changed to ''Vortex'', which was considered more likely to sell tickets. The final title came for unknown reasons. Plot A small family relocates to the Sonoran Desert to be closer to the grandparents of the family. Though there are news reports of a spectacular triple supernova and the young granddaughter has seen a glowing alien construction behind the barn, the family is at ease until, one night, a UFO soars overhead and appears to land in the nearby hills. Apparently, the triple supernova has opened a rift in space and time. The family finds that their electrical appliances no longer function, and the youngest daughter of the family has a telepathic encounter with an extraterrestrial. The grandmother, too, sees one of these diminutive creatures beckoning to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark (1979 Film)
''The Dark'' is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by John Cardos and starring William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel, Keenan Wynn, and Casey Kasem. page 132 Cast * William Devane as Roy Warner * Cathy Lee Crosby as Zoe * Richard Jaeckel as Detective Dave Mooney * Keenan Wynn as Sherman "Sherm" Moss * Casey Kasem as Police Pathologist * Jacquelyn Hyde as De Renzy * Warren Kemmerling as Captain Speer * Biff Elliot as Detective Jack Bresler * John Bloom as The Dark Killer * Jay Lawrence as Jim * Vivian Blaine as Courtney * William Derringer as Herman * Russ Marin as Dr. Baranowski * Roberto Contreras as Max, The Bartender * Vernon Washington as Henry Lydell * Erik Howell as Antwine * Ron Iglesias as Rudy * William Lampley as The Young Man * Sandra Walker McCully as Carhop * Ken Minyard as T.V. Sportscaster * Valla Rae McDade as Camille * Monica Peterson as Mrs. Lydell * Penny Ann Phillips as Zelza * Jeffrey Reese as Randy * Kathy Richards as Shelly Warner Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Samurai
''Black Samurai'' is a 1977 American blaxploitation martial arts spy action adventure film directed by Al Adamson and starring Jim Kelly. Produced by BJLJ International, with Executive Producer Laurence Joachim and screenplay credited to B. Readick, with additional story ideas from Marco Joachim. The film is based on a novel of the same name, by Marc Olden. Plot Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officers ask him to save a Japanese girl named Toki who happens to be Sand's girlfriend, and the daughter of a top Eastern Ambassador. The ransom for the abduction was the secret for a terrific new weapon - the freeze bomb - but the 'Warlock' behind the deed is also into the business of drug dealing and Voodoo ritual murders. The search takes him from Hong Kong to California through Miami, and plenty of action, against bad men, bad girls, and bad animals. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantata De Chile
''Cantata de Chile'' is a 1976 Cuban social realist musical epic film directed by Humberto Solás about the Santa María School massacre in Chile in 1907. Cast * Nelson Villagra * Shenda Román * Eric Heresmann * Alfredo Tornquist * Leonardo Perucci * Peggy Cordero * Flavia Ugalde * Roberto Contreras Roberto Contreras (1928–2000) was an American actor best known for playing Pedro in the TV western series ''The High Chaparral''. His film and television career spanned nearly 40 years from 1954 to 1993, including featured roles in ''Topaz'' and ... References External links * 1976 films Cuban musical films Films set in Chile {{Cuba-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Challenge
''The Last Challenge '' is a 1967 American Western in Panavision, produced and directed by Richard Thorpe (marking his final film). The film starred Glenn Ford and Angie Dickinson and centered around a town sheriff contending with his reputation as the "fastest gun in the West." It is also known under the titles of ''Pistolero'' and ''The Pistolero of Red River''. ''The Last Challenge'' was adapted from ''Pistolero's Progress'', a novel by John Sherry (John Olden Sherry) and published by Pocket Books in 1966. It is widely and falsely reported that the screenplay for ''The Last Challenge'' was written by Albert Maltz, the blacklisted writer. The confusion is due to Maltz' use of the pseudonym John B. Sherry. Peter Ford in his biography of his father ''Glenn Ford: A Life'' noted, "Oddly the picture Dad made after ''The Last Challenge'', called '' Day of the Evil Gun'', was directed by Jerry Thorpe, Richard's son. This must be the only case in film history where the same star mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chubasco (film)
''Chubasco'' is a 1968 American drama film written and directed by Allen H. Miner. The film stars Richard Egan, Christopher Jones, Susan Strasberg, Ann Sothern, Simon Oakland and Audrey Totter. The film was released by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts on June 5, 1968. Plot Cast * Richard Egan as Sebastian * Christopher Jones as Chubasco *Susan Strasberg as Bunny *Ann Sothern as Angela *Simon Oakland as Laurindo *Audrey Totter as Theresa *Preston Foster as Nick *Peter Whitney as Matt *Edward Binns as Judge North *Joe De Santis as Benito *Norman Alden as Frenchy * Stewart Moss as Les * Ron Rich as Juno *Milton Frome Milton Frome (February 24, 1909 – March 21, 1989) was an American character actor. Career Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Frome landed his first acting job in the short subject ''Daredevil O'Dare'' in 1934. He did not act again until 1939 ... as Police Sergeant *Ernest Sarracino as Juan *Suzanne Benoit as Edna Belle *Lili Valenty as Maria References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Professionals (1966 Film)
''The Professionals'' is a 1966 American Western film written, produced, and directed by Richard Brooks and starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, with Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale and Ralph Bellamy in supporting roles. The script was adapted from the 1964 novel '' A Mule for the Marquesa'' by Frank O'Rourke. The film received three Oscar nominations and an enthusiastic critical reception. Plot In the final years of the Mexican Revolution, American rancher J.W. Grant hires four men, who are all experts in their respective fields, to rescue his kidnapped wife, Maria, from Jesus Raza, a former revolutionary leader-turned-bandit. Henry "Rico" Fardan is a weapons specialist, Bill Dolworth is an explosives expert, Hans Ehrengard is the horse wrangler, and Jake Sharp is a traditional Apache scout, skilled with a bow and arrow. Fardan and Dolworth, having both fought under the command of Pancho Villa, have a high regard for Raza as a soldier. But as cyn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Appaloosa
''The Appaloosa'' (also known as ''Southwest to Sonora'') is a 1966 American Western (genre), Western film starring Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer and John Saxon, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a Mexican bandit. The film was directed by Sidney J. Furie, and shot in Techniscope in California, Utah, and Arizona. Plot Based on the 1963 book by Robert MacLeod, the title character is a beautiful horse (a breed, the Appaloosa) belonging to Matt Fletcher (Marlon Brando), a Mexican-American buffalo hunter who returns home only to have his beloved horse stolen by a powerful bandit, Chuy Medina (John Saxon) with the help of the bandit's girlfriend, Trini (Anjanette Comer) in the border town of Ojo Prieto. Trini was sold to Chuy at the age of 15, but has been brutalized and effectively discarded. Matt begins to hunt down the bandit to recapture the horse, but finds matters more complicated than expected when he meets the girlfriend o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvarez Kelly
''Alvarez Kelly'' is a 1966 American Western (genre), Western film set in the American Civil War directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring William Holden and Richard Widmark. The picture was based on the historic Beefsteak Raid of September 1864 led by Confederate States of America, Confederate Major General Wade Hampton III. Plot Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly (William Holden) is contracted to deliver a herd to the Union Army in Virginia. As he nears the end of his long Cattle drives in the United States, cattle drive, Kelly is captured by Confederate States of America, Confederate raiders led by Colonel Tom Rossiter (Richard Widmark). The Confederacy desperately needs the beef to feed its soldiers besieged in Richmond, Virginia, Richmond. Kelly is "persuaded" to help shanghai and deliver the stolen herd to Richmond. Despite the hatred between the two men, they manage to work together. Kelly first teaches Rossiter's men how to drive cattle. Then, they proceed to capture and dri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
