Maria Eugenia San Martin Movies
- 1965
In this Mexican supernatural drama, a bereaved mother is granted three wishes after she makes a pact with the devil. Her first wish is to bring her son back from the dead. Unfortunately things don't turn out as well as she'd hoped they would. The story is based on The Monkey's Paw. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1962
An unpretentious musical comedy by Mexican director Fernando Coates, the "young and beautiful" in this tale are, on the one hand, a group of young women whose parents are worried about their future and on the other, some young men who are not worried about very much. The teen women are too involved with rock 'n roll and not paying enough attention to the important things in life, according to their parents. And so they are sent out into the countryside in the hopes that this isolation will leave them without their main passion. Unfortunately for the parents, the young men in the countryside are all for the new, modern sounds -- and just the opposite of isolation results. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gaston Santos, Maria Eugenia San Martin, (more)
In this Mexican wrestling-horror movie, the bizarre experiments of a crazed scientist end in violence and death. The trouble begins when he transplants a gorilla's brain into a man's head. Next he transplants another into a female wrestler's head. She dies. Her sister, another wrestler, vows to get revenge. She recruits other wrestlers and the police to assist her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1961
Alfredo B. Crevenna directs this amusing Mexican comedy-drama, sprinkled with a few risqué situations but not as spicy as the book on which it is based. Popular actor Francisco Rabal plays the wealthy, elite friend of a woman (Terre Velasquez) who is caught in a serious dilemma. Her family has fallen on hard times and she needs to help them, however she can. She decides to marry her monied friend, and once the wedding is behind her, the challenges of moving in the upper echelons of society and somehow making the most of the marriage give rise to humor, and eventual happiness for all concerned. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Francisco Rabal, Teresa Velazquez, (more)
This Mexican-Venezuelan co-production from popular genre filmmaker Alfredo B. Crevenna is a standard "old dark house" chiller filmed in three installments, leavening its thrills with heavy doses of silly comedy. A motley group of people have to stay in the infamous Black Castle for one month to claim a large inheritance and are subject to the usual bodies disappearing, a roaming maniac, and a fake vampire. Alfonso Iglesias, best known as Pompin, stars with genre stalwarts Maria Eugenia San Martin, Carlos Riquelme, and Fernando Soto (aka Mantequilla). As was the usual custom at the time, American exploitation specialist K. Gordon Murray picked it up and commissioned the 1964 English-language version directed by Manuel San Fernando. Followed by La Casa de los Espantos. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- 1961
A mixture of musical and love story, this entertaining film by Gilberto Martínez-Solares is set in a music academy where the students live the life of most aspiring artists-musicians-singers, and in the meantime, have a tendency to fall in love. One impoverished but talented singer (Pedro Geraldo) falls for a wealthy fellow student (Christine Martell) who keeps her monied status a secret lest it get in the way of their relationship. As the students practice and audition, hoping to break into the big time, songs and performances abound and the love affairs make predictable progress. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christiane Martell
Alfredo B. Crevenna's sequel to the same year's Echenme al Vampiro is another Mexican-Venezuelan "old dark house" comedy originally filmed in three installments like its predecessor. The maniacal killer from the first film didn't find the treasure, so many of the same prospective heirs are brought back to the Black Castle, only to encounter more disappearing bodies, fake ghosts, and a severed head which speaks. As in most of these films, the anticlimactic final revelation prefigures what would eventually become known as "the Scooby-Doo ending." With Maria Eugenia San Martin, Carlos Riquelme, Hector Godoy, and Alfonso Iglesias (aka Pompin), who were all in the first film. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- 1947
Various murders are examined by a private investigator. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1947
When his best friend is murdered and the killers take off with the bride, Zorro stalks the outlaws. ~ All Movie Guide
