Elsa Cardenas Movies

Santo and an Interpol agent team up to destroy a spy ring. ~ Rovi

As violence and chaos sweeps across the Mexican landscape no one is safe from the destruction that threatens to wipe out everything in its path in a nail-biting thriller directed by Vicente Fernandez and starring Patricia Aspillaga. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

"If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic revisionist Western ruthlessly takes apart the myths of the West. Released in the late '60s discord over Vietnam, in the wake of the controversial Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and the brutal "spaghetti westerns" of Sergio Leone, The Wild Bunch polarized critics and audiences over its ferocious bloodshed. One side hailed it as a classic appropriately pitched to the violence and nihilism of the times, while the other reviled it as depraved. After a failed payroll robbery, the outlaw Bunch, led by aging Pike Bishop (William Holden) and including Dutch (Ernest Borgnine), Angel (Jaime Sanchez), and Lyle and Tector Gorch (Warren Oates and Ben Johnson), heads for Mexico pursued by the gang of Pike's friend-turned-nemesis Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan). Ultimately caught between the corruption of railroad fat cat Harrigan (Albert Dekker) and federale general Mapache (Emilio Fernandez), and without a frontier for escape, the Bunch opts for a final Pyrrhic victory, striding purposefully to confront Mapache and avenge their friend Angel. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Nick Adams makes one of his last screen appearance in the Mexican Los Asesinos. Adams and Pedro Armendariz Jr. play a couple of bandits who would sooner kill each other than anyone else. Staking separate claims in a squalid little town, the two desperadoes vie for total control. Only one of the two is going to get out of this alive, and it may not be Adams, top billing or no top billing. Elsa Cardenas provides feminine interest to this cinematic macho excess. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Elvis Presley stars as Mike Windgren, a former trapeze artist who's suffered from vertigo ever since accidentally dropping his partner during a performance. Working as a lifeguard/entertainer at an Acapulco resort, Mike falls in love with social director Margarita Dauphine (Ursula Andress). With her help, he overcomes his fear of heights in a spectacular high-dive finale. Presley songs featured include "Vino, Dinero y Amor," "Marguerita," "Bossa Nova Baby" and the title tune. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

A young Native American boy saves the day in this competent children's western by director George Sherman. Little twelve-year-old Michael (Danny Bravo) is an orphan whose best friends are young Father Phelan (Richard Basehart) and the curmudgeonly Father Walsh (Arthur Shields). The good fathers would like to raise money for a new shrine but the project seems hopeless -- until Michael steps into the picture. He devotes himself to the care and training of a white quarterhorse with his eye on the big, local race coming up soon. If the horse can win the race, it would be enough to cover the cost of the shrine. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Historically, one of the members of the infamous Dalton Brothers outlaw gang, Emmet Dalton, did escape with his life after that fateful 1892 shootout in Coffeyville, Kansas. He lived to a ripe old age, touring the country and lecturing on the evils of dishonesty. In the 1960 low-budgeter The Dalton That Got Away, Emmet is played by future Mannix star Michael Connors. As depicted herein, Emmet's post-bandit activities are heaps more exciting than we've been led to believe. The preponderance of Latino names in the cast and crew of The Dalton That Got Away lead us to conclude that the film was not lensed in Kansas. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Interest was increased in this Mexican political drama because the story criticizes the treasury department of that country, and said department would not allow the release of the film. After a change in government, this story written by Emilio Carballido, directed by Alfonso Corona-Blake and produced by Gloria Lozano, who also plays one of the leads, finally came to light on the silver screens. At the center of the action is a woman who works in the treasury department (Lozano) and the man she loves (Carlos Lopez-Moctezuma) who is also a co-worker and reciprocates her feelings. Both of them are having difficulties because of their jobs. Red tape and bureaucratic inefficiency put an extra burden on them, compounded by the fact that treasury employees often have a hard time getting paid their wages. The director has opted for a light touch, so this is not a strident propaganda piece and should prove of interest to a broad range of viewers. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi