Fernando Sancho Movies
- 1989
In this supernatural thriller, Eve is a woman whose nine-year old daughter gives every evidence of having strange occult powers. Within two days of giving birth to her, Eve hit a strange woman while driving, and at the same time lost her husband. Some have asserted that the movie's story bears some relation to the Biblical story of Lilith. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lydia Bosch, Fernando Guillén, (more)
- 1985
This entertaining comedy is set in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War when a group of Republican soldiers sneak into a village in enemy territory to steal a bull with plans of butchering it to feed themselves. Fate and the bull itself, however, have other plans. One of the surreptitious bull-snatchers knows the village well -- he grew up there, but that advantage alone cannot guarantee their success, as it turns out. The group of five would-be thieves dress themselves in uniforms of the Nationalist troops in an attempt to dissimulate their true identity. But instead of a neat getaway with a bull in tow, they are caught up in the "correo" or running of the bull, they get involved in a religious procession, and in the end, watch as the bull breaks out of a flimsy ring in a bullfight and heads for the hills. Still hungry, the group of men now have to worry about getting back to their own battalion before they are found out. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Guillermo Montesinos, Alfredo Landa, (more)
- 1983
This sequel to Valentina jumps ahead eight years where the gentle-poet Pepe is studying in a university and doing an internship in a pharmacy lab. Though it has nearly been a decade, he is still in love with the beautiful Valentina. Unfortunately, things in Spain are getting more tense as his countrymen prepare to rebel against the oppressive government. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Miguel Molina, Christina Marsillach, (more)
- 1982
Producer, writer, director, and lead actor Max Boulois gives credit to William Shakespeare in the credits to this film, but Will's last name is misspelled. This is one of several oversights which tend to leave Othello's story a little disjointed in parts. In Boulois' incarnation, Othello is a black U.S. mercenary in Africa who falls in love with the daughter of a Senator from Boston. The commando group that includes Othello and the erstwhile Desdemona then gets transferred over to a Central American country where the rest of the plot unfolds to the detriment of the lead characters, killing off all chances for a sequel. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Max H. Boulois, Tony Curtis, (more)
When one of the wealthiest men on the planet places an international ad seeking seven remarkable women with whom to share his vast fortune, every eligible woman on the planet sets out to impress the eccentric millionaire and secure a jet-set life on unrestricted luxury in this erotic comedy from director Dario Herreros. In order to qualify the women will have to be at Seventh Hill on the seventh day of the seventh month, at precisely seven in the evening. As the time draws near for the lucky seven women to be chosen, women from all corners of the globe do everything in their power to achieve perfection, and ensure a valued spot among the privileged few. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1980
Reactions to this political drama with a rightist slant will depend on the viewer's own politics. Late director Rafael Gil begins with an ingenious premise. A novice reporter mistakes the news that the French franc (franco in Spanish) has resuscitated for the news that dead fascist dictator, Francisco Franco has come back from the grave. Buried for three years now, this is not likely but it sets off a series of extreme reactions in many sectors of society. At the same time there is an old man who just might be the resuscitated dictator hitchhiking away from the cemetery that holds his tomb. As some leaders either run off or air out their fascist uniforms, bombs are exploded in the streets, bank robbers rob with impunity, and a group of villagers thinks that the army on maneuvers in their neighborhood is actually the fascist army returning in glory. Sooner or later, people will realize that Franco is truly dead, though fascism may not be as moribund. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Francisco Cecilio
- 1976
- R
Themes long forbidden in Spain under the Franco dictatorship began to be explored in the years just following his demise. In this 1976 film, an unhappy and very effeminate man (played by a woman, Victoria Abril), experiences one difficulty after another. As a boy in Cataluña, his father attempts to teach him to "be a man." These lessons include taking him to a big-city whorehouse to have sex. At the bordello, he successfully avoids having sex with a woman, but when he sees a transvestite revue which culminates in the actors revealing their actual genitalia, he is fascinated. He runs away from home, learns to be a hairdresser, and develops a transvestite act of his own. After numerous love affairs with men, he eventually realizes his transsexual nature and goes to another country to have a sex-change operation. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1975
- R
Spanish horror director Amando De Ossorio (creator of the Blind Dead trilogy) helmed this derivative but fairly creepy variant on The Exorcist. The story begins with a deranged hag attempting to kidnap an infant for a Satanic sacrificial rite, then committing suicide after being captured by the police. The woman's evil spirit then takes possession of the police inspector's ten-year-old daughter, who launches into the standard collection of demon-possession symptoms (profanity, levitation, head-spinning, etc.) before physically transforming into a miniature version of the deceased witch. As people begin dying all around her in horrific ways, the demonic brat attempts to steal another child and complete the sacrificial rite -- until a priest steps in to stop her reign of terror. Atmospheric but uncomfortably grim and violent, this film has a particularly pessimistic ending which lends to the overall sense of doom. Released to video as The Possessed. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- 1974
What Changed Charley Farthing stars Doug McClure as a wayfaring sailor stopping over in Havana. In the tradition of The African Queen, the sailor becomes a reluctant hero when he is hired to give safe passage out of Cuba to a young woman (Hayley Mills) and her father (Lionel Jeffries). This involves stealing a boat, ducking the authorities, and avoiding bullets. David Pursall and Jack Seddon adapted the screenplay from a novel by Mark Hebdon. What Changed Charley Farthing has been run repeatedly on American television under its alternate title The Bananas Boat. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Voodoo Black Exorcist stars out like a rewrite of The Mummy. Some 30 centuries ago, an African prince was entombed alive for stealing another man's woman. Flash-forward to the present; the prince's body is exhumed by archaeologists. Within seconds (or so it seems), the corpse revives, killing everyone who crosses his path. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1972
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The satanic Templars return for more bloodletting and mayhem in this sequel to Tombs of the Blind Dead. This time around, the Templars are shown in flashback killing and drinking the blood of a virgin -- a process by which they hope to achieve eternal life. Local villagers arrest them, scald out their eyes with their torches, and burn the knights at the stake. This differs from the first film which had a legend explaining that crows ate out the Templars' eyes after they had been hung. Either way, the evil blind knights awaken during a festival celebrating the 500th anniversary of their defeat at the hands of the villagers. The drunken shouts of partygoers are quickly replaced by screams at the sight of the skeletal zombies and the massacre is on. A group of survivors -- including fireworks ace Jack, his old flame Vivian, the town's crooked mayor, and a few other eventual victims -- all gather in an old church that is quickly surrounded by the saber-swinging ghouls. One by one, they make idiotic moves that get them killed until only Jack, Vivian, and a little girl remain. As dawn approaches, they make their move to escape in a tense climactic scene that ends in a surprisingly effective twist. Tombs of the Blind Dead was followed by El Buque Maldito. ~ Patrick Legare, All Movie Guide
- 1971
After a group of outlaws rob a bank, the spoils are stolen by a man who helped with the heist in this spaghetti western. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide
- 1968
In this western, an engimatic stranger stops a stage from being robbed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Garko, William Berger, (more)
- 1968
The truth-in-advertising title Duel in the Eclipse was applied to the American release of a Spanish spaghetti western starring Fernando Sancho. An American cowpoke heads to a Mexican town, hoping to avenge his brother's murder. This will be hard to accomplish in broad daylight, with baddies lurking around every corner. Fortunately, the town is blacked out by total eclipse. A novel slant on a well-worn plotline, Duel in the Eclipse is entertaining in a bloodthirsty sort of way. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1967
Jonathan Corbett (Lee Van Cleef) is one of the top lawmen in the State of Texas. He's so good at what he does, that he's been approached by Brokston (Walter Barnes), a wealthy speculator and power-broker, about running for the United States Senate. But there's one job that needs doing first which, if Corbett can finish it, will put him in an unchallengable position -- he has to hunt down and capture (dead or alive, with the emphasis on "dead") Cuchillo Sanchez (Tomas Milian), who's wanted for raping and killing a 12-year-old girl. Corbett does what he does best, pursuing Sanchez relentlessly and on his own level of intense brutality, past the border and into Mexico -- but along the way, Corbett learns what life is like for peasants like Sanchez, and what men like Brokston have to do with it. And he discovers that Sanchez may not be the murderer that Corbett thinks he is. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, (more)
- 1967
This is a standard Spaghetti Western, an Italian-Spanish co-production about a bounty hunter (John Ireland) hired to find outlaw Mark Damon (who, of course, is really a good guy at heart). There's hidden treasure, a cast full of genre veterans (including Armando Calvo, Monica Randall, and Eduardo Fajardo), but very little else to please fans of either Westerns or director Umberto Lenzi, who made his name with gruesome cannibal movies like Mangiati Vivi and Cannibal Ferox later in his career. Spartaco Conversi co-stars with Raf Baldassare and Lisa Halvorsen. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- 1967
Erminio Salvi (Seven Adventures of Ali Baba) directed this bloody, peculiar spaghetti western shot in Florence, Italy. The U.S. Cavalry hires Johnny Texas to shepherd a wagon train through hostile territory. The clever Johnny runs afoul of a band of outlaws, blows up a fort, and mixes it up with a spy (Monika Brugger) undercover as a dancehall girl. Salvio fills the film with bizarre touches, like dressing the Cavalry in blue and red (blue and gold was the proper combination) and having Brugger travel 400 miles to deliver blasting caps which are never used. This is a genuinely strange failure which might almost pass for pseudo-surrealism if it wasn't so obviously based on poor planning and bad research. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- 1967
In this spaghetti western, a bank robber becomes friends with the enigmatic Sabato by giving him back the money that he had just put into the bank. Trouble ensues when the robber discovers his murdered wife. He immediately suspects that Sabato did it, and rides off to get revenge. Sabato is innocent and when the robber realizes this, they team up to discover that it was Sabato's ex-partner that did the deed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Antonio Sabato, Fernando Sancho, (more)
- 1967
In this high-seas adventure, framed by the Napoleonic War, a pirate is sponsored by the government to save those living on the captured islands. In his spare time, he has a romantic fling, and tries to save his fiancee from villains. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gérard Barray, Antonella Lualdi, (more)
