Based on the authentic Mexican legend first filmed in 1933 as La Llorona, this film begins with a flashback to a gruesome railway murder, setting up the legend of the wailing woman. In the present, a couple (Abel Salazar, Rosita Arenas) travels to a spooky mansion where evil Rita Macedo is trying to revive the mummified La Llorona. Macedo, the ...
Following the same pattern as the series of Cantinflas films, this routine Mexican comedy stars the country's other top-billed comic, Tin-Tan. He falls a little short of convincing in his take-off on a down-and-out storyteller who struggles to eke out a living on a daily basis. As in other Mexican films of this type the comedy arises from the ...
The Mexican horrorama Man and the Monster is yet another wrinkle on the Faust story. A concert pianist, desirous of international fame, sells his soul to the devil. Satan's price: whenever the pianist plays a particular selection, he turns into a monster. After a string of brutal murders perpetrated by this musical Jekyll/Hyde, he is foiled by a ...
A mixed tortilla Western-children's adventure film, this standard tale by director Rafael Baledon features Joselito as a young boy with singing talent who arrives in Mexico only to be kidnapped by an outlaw band. The young boy is saved by a hero-cowboy (Antonio Aguilar) who also likes to sing. Before the next melody has ended, they join up with a ...
The popular, versatile, and talented Mexican comic and singer Tin Tan (Germán Valdés) stars as a gangster in this quickly-made, low-budget comedy by Gang Leader director Rafael Baledon. Able to interpret almost any role in an innovative, original manner, Tin Tan turns his gangster into a unique individual with a definite comic cast. As might be ...
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