Enrique Tovar Ávalos was a Mexican

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

notable for remaking several

Universal Horror Universal Classic Monsters (also known as Universal Monsters and Universal Studios Monsters) is a media franchise based on a series of horror films primarily produced by Universal Pictures from the 1930s to the 1950s. Although not initially concei ...

films into Spanish language versions. These include ''

La Voluntad del muerto ''La Voluntad del Muerto'' ( en, The Will of the Dead Man, italic=yes) is a Spanish-language version of '' The Cat Creeps'' (1930), both of which are now considered to be lost films. The film was directed by George Melford and stars Antonio ...

'' ('' The Cat and the Canary'', 1927) and ''

Drácula ''Dracula'' is a 1931 American horror film directed by George Melford. The film is based on both the novel ''Dracula'' by Bram Stoker and the play ''Dracula'' by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston. The film is about Renfield (Pablo Alvarez R ...

'' (''

Dracula ''Dracula'' is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking ...

'', 1931).

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