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Ángel Álvarez
Ángel Álvarez (26 September 1906 – 13 December 1983) was a prolific Spanish film actor. He made over 205 film appearances between 1945 and 1982. He is probably best known for his western films of the 1960s and 1970s. He appeared in Spaghetti Western films such as ''Navajo Joe'', and '' Django'' in 1966 opposite Franco Nero. He often played a plump store keeper or a bank manager. Selected filmography * '' Eloisa Is Under an Almond Tree'' (1943) - Espectador del cine (uncredited) * '' El destino se disculpa'' (1945) - Conserje de la radio (uncredited) * ''La luna vale un millón'' (1945) - Financiero (uncredited) * ''Cinco lobitos'' (1945) * ''Unknown Path'' (1946) - Barman * ''El crimen de Pepe Conde'' (1946) * ''María Fernanda, la Jerezana'' (1947) * ''Fuenteovejuna'' (1947) * ''Don Quixote'' (1947) - Segundo Fraile (Second Friar) (uncredited) * ''Anguish'' (1947) - Bibliotecario * ''El marqués de Salamanca'' (1948) - Recepcionista hotel * ''Pequeñeces...'' (1950) - cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Django (1966 Film)
''Django'' ( ) is a 1966 spaghetti Western film directed, produced and co-written by Sergio Corbucci. It stars Franco Nero (in his breakthrough role) as Django (character), the title character, alongside Loredana Nusciak, José Bódalo, Ángel Álvarez, and Eduardo Fajardo. The film follows a Union Army, Union soldier-turned-drifter (person), drifter and his companion, a Multiracial people, mixed-race Prostitution, prostitute, who become embroiled in a bitter, destructive feud between a gang of Confederate States of America, Confederate Red Shirts (United States), Red Shirts and a band of Mexican revolutionaries. Intended to capitalize on and rival the success of Sergio Leone's ''A Fistful of Dollars'', Corbucci's film is, like Leone's, considered to be a loose, unofficial adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's ''Yojimbo (film), Yojimbo''.Cox, 2009 The film earned a reputation as one of the most violent films ever made at the time, and was subsequently refused a certificate in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Galeoto
''The Great Galeoto'' (Spanish: ''El gran Galeoto'') is a 1951 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Ana Mariscal and Rafael Durán.de España p.119 Synopsis Ernesto is a young musician who, when his father dies, is forced to stay in Madrid, sharing a house with his executor Julio Villamil, married to the actress Teresa Labisbal, with whom the young man was platonically in love. Although the young man's behavior is impeccable, the rumor created by third parties makes Julio want to fight Ernesto in a duel to the death. Cast * Valeriano Andrés as Pedro * Manuel Arbó as Secretario de Ernesto * Rafael Bardem as Gabriel * Francisco Bernal as Peón del coto de caza * Xan das Bolas as Cochero * Raúl Cancio as Alcaraz * María Cañete * Manuel de Juan as Miembro del consejo * Mary Delgado as Mercedes * Rafael Durán as Ernesto Acedo * Juan Espantaleón as Don Severo Villamil * Fernando Fernández de Córdoba as Uceda * Concha Fernánd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Lie (1956 Film)
''The Big Lie'' (Spanish: ''La gran mentira'') is a 1956 Spanish film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Francisco Rabal, Madeleine Fischer and Jacqueline Pierreux.de España p.119 Synopsis César Neira, a declining actor, sees his chance to succeed again thanks to the inclusion in his film of a paralyzed teacher who has become very popular thanks to a radio contest. Cast * Francisco Rabal as César Neira * Madeleine Fischer as Teresa Camps * Jacqueline Pierreux as Sara Millán * Manolo Morán as Representante de César * Emilio Alonso * Julio F. Alymán as Maquillador * Rafaela Aparicio as Vecina de La Molina * Rafael Bardem as Tío de Teresa * Gustavo Biosca * Irene Caba Alba as Vecina de La Molina * Rafael Calvo Revilla as Doctor * José Calvo as Productor que habla con censor * Pedro Chicote * Carlos Ciscar * Rafael Cortés * Bobby Deglané * Teresa del Río * Juan Domenech as Paulino Sándalo * Ángel de Echenique * Ramón Elías as Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coyote's Justice
''The Coyote's Justice'' (Spanish: ''La justicia del Coyote'') is a 1956 Mexican-Spanish western film directed by Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent and starring Abel Salazar, Gloria Marín Gloria Méndez Ramos (19 April 1919 – 13 April 1983), known professionally as Gloria Marín, was a Mexicans, Mexican actress. She was considered a celebrated female star of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. During her career, Marín appeared ... and Manuel Monroy. Based on the character El Coyote created by J. Mallorquí. It was a sequel to the 1955 film '' The Coyote''. Plot Don Cesar de Echague, masquerading as the avenger "El Coyote", continues the American troops' fight against injustice and perversion of justice against the Hispanic population of California in the mid-1840s. At the same time, he courts the charming Leonor de Acevedo as a nobleman who lives inconspicuously. She rejects him at first because she only knows him as a cowardly nobleman, but rewards him with her love wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Red Fish
''Red Fish'' (Spanish: ''Los peces rojos'') is a 1955 Spanish thriller film directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde José Antonio Nieves Conde (22 December 1911http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/45978/jose-antonio-nieves-conde José Antonio Nieves Conde. Diccionario biográfico español. Real Academia de la Historia. Access 15 february 2020. in Segovia, Castilla y L ...Mira p. 237 and written by Carlos Blanco with original idea by Carlos Blanco. Plot Ivón, a chorus girl, and Hugo, a failed writer, turn up at a provincial hotel on a stormy night. They have come from Madrid with Carlos, Hugo's son, born nineteen years earlier after a casual affair. They decide to lean over the cliffs to look at the angry waves down below – and Carlos falls to his death. References Bibliography * Mira, Alberto. ''Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2010. External links * 1955 films 1950s Spanish films 1950s Spanish-language films 1950s crime thriller films Spanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Are Three
''Three are Three'' (Spanish: ''Tres eran tres'') is a 1955 Spanish comedy film directed by Eduardo García Maroto, written by himself, Jaime García-Herranz and Antonio de Lara. In three separate segments it parodies different film genres A film genre is a Genre, stylistic or thematic category for Film, motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative , narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film. Drawing heavily from the theories .... Awarded in 1954 the Golden Medal of the Cinema Writers Circle to the best screenplay . Cast References Bibliography * Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer 2008. External links * 1955 comedy films Spanish comedy films 1955 films 1950s Spanish-language films Films directed by Eduardo García Maroto Films with screenplays by Antonio de Lara Films scored by Augusto Algueró 1950s Spanish films {{1950s-Spain-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventures Of The Barber Of Seville
''Adventures of the Barber of Seville'' (French: ''L'aventurier de Séville'', Spanish: ''Aventuras del barbero de Sevilla'') is a 1954 French-Spanish comedy film directed by Ladislao Vajda and starring Luis Mariano, Lolita Sevilla and Danielle Godet. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Figaro, a singing barber, gets caught by some bandits who use his abilities to attract travelers and assault them. To escape justice he joins the army. Meanwhile, the bandits are all captured where the authorities give them a stark choice - death by garrote or join the army. Both the bandits and Figaro end up serving in the same military company. They are shipped to Puerto Rico and fight pirates, returning to Spain with acclaim. Now he will know the rich salons and the bright side of life. Cast * Luis Mariano as Fígaro * Lolita Sevilla as Pepilla * Danielle Godet as Rosina * José Isbert as Don Faustino * Emma Penella as Duquesa de San Tirso * Miguel Gila as Sargen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airport (1953 Film)
''Airport'' (Spanish: ''Aeropuerto'') is a 1953 Spanish comedy film directed by Luis Lucia, and starring Fernando Fernán Gómez, Margarita Andrey, and Fernando Rey.Bentley p. 129 Plot The Madrid-Barajas Airport is a constant flow of personal stories and situations. Fernando is a pilot who brings a girl to deliver her to relatives. Ceferino and his wife have won the trip to Paraguay in a contest, but they want to see the plane that will take them. Mr. Bertrán returns to Spain after many years of exile, with the tension that this entails for him. Cast * Fernando Fernán Gómez as Luis * Margarita Andrey as Lilliane * Fernando Rey as Fernando * María Asquerino as María * María Teresa Reina as Isabel * Manolo Morán as Bertrán * Julia Caba Alba as Albertina * Juan Vázquez as Ceferino * José Isbert as Manolo * Fernando Sancho as Mr. Fogg * Elvira Quintillá as Florista * Antonio Riquelme as Comisario * José Franco as Señor Comas * Félix Fernández as M. Lacomb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Was A Parish Priest
''I Was a Parish Priest'' or ''God's War'' (Spanish: ''La guerra de Dios'') is a 1953 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Claude Laydu, Francisco Rabal and José Marco Davó.Bentley p.121 It was awarded the Gran Premio at the first ever San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was also shown at the Venice Film Festival where it was awarded the Bronze Lion. It portrays the efforts of a young Priest sent to a poor mining village in the early 1930s. Synopsis A priest receives as his first assignment the parish of a mining town, beset by poverty. In this area he will focus all his forces to overcome the resentment accumulated by the miners towards the ecclesiastical profession. Cast * Claude Laydu as P. Andrés Mendoza * Francisco Rabal as Martín * José Marco Davó as Don César * Fernando Sancho as Barrona * Gérard Tichy as El Negro * Alberto Romea * Carmen Rodríguez * Ricardo Calvo * Julia Caba Alba as Hermana de D. César * Félix Dafauc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welcome Mr
A welcome is a kind of greeting designed to introduce a person to a new place or situation, and to make them feel at ease. The term can similarly be used to describe the feeling of being accepted on the part of the new person. Overview In some contexts, a welcome is extended to a stranger to an area or a household. "The concept of welcoming the stranger means intentionally building into the interaction those factors that make others feel that they belong, that they matter, and that you want to get to know them". It is also noted, however, that " many community settings, being welcoming is viewed as in conflict with ensuring safety. Thus, welcoming becomes somewhat self-limited: 'We will be welcoming unless you do something unsafe'". Different cultures have their own traditional forms of welcome, and a variety of different practices can go into an effort to welcome: Indications that visitors are welcome can occur at different levels. For example, a welcome sign, at the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doña Francisquita (film)
''Doña Francisquita'' is a 1952 Spanish musical comedy film directed by Ladislao Vajda. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Francisquita secretly loves Fernando, but he has fallen in love with Aurora, a purebred Madrid woman used to flirting with all men. Cardona, a friend of Fernando's, decides to help Francisquita, even at the risk of confusing everything. Cast * Mirtha Legrand as Doña Francisquita * Armando Calvo Armando Calvo (25 December 1919 – 6 July 1996) was a Puerto Rican-born Spanish actor. His father was Juan Calvo Domenech, a Spanish actor and his mother was Minerva Lespier, a Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican. Calvo worked in Spain, Italy, ... as Fernando * Antonio Casal as Cardona * Manolo Morán as Lorenzo * Emma Penella as Aurora 'La Beltrana' * Julia Lajos as Doña Francisca * José Isbert as Maestro Lambertini * Jesús Tordesillas as Don Matías * Ángel Álvarez as Un señor (uncredited) * Antonio Riquelme as Pepe (uncr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Day (film)
''Last Day'' (Spanish:''Último día'') is a 1952 Spanish crime film directed by Antonio Román.Bentley p.130 Cast * Elena Barrios as Blanquita Peña * Francisco Bernal as Carterista 1º * Modesto Blanch as Jugador 1º * Joaquín Burgos as Avisador * Quique Camoiras as Muchacho 1º * Gaspar Campos as Representante Fuentes * Pedro Martín Caro * Amando de Ossorio as Jugador 3º * Beni Deus as Agente Ramos * Enrique Diosdado as Rafael Osuna * Víctor Ramón Domínguez as Muchacho 2º * Antonio Florido as Jugador 2º * Mateo Guitart as Director de orquesta * Manolo Gómez Bur as Agente Molina * Vicente Gómez Bur as Traspunte * José Isbert as Comisario Pérez * Manuel Kayser as Doctor Montero * Pilar Lorengar as Carmen Beltrán * Carmen Lozano as Laly * Carlos Marco as Alberto Loma * Arturo Marín as Carterista 2º * Julio Mathias Lacarra as Polizón * Juan Luis Quintana as Agente al teléfono * Julio Riscal as Agente Gómez * Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
