Elsa Cardenas Movies
- 1987
Santo and an Interpol agent team up to destroy a spy ring. ~ All Movie Guide
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, All Movie Guide
"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, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, (more)
- 1968
In this bloody Mexican horror outing, a beautiful woman suffers a terrible accident and becomes maimed and ugly. Desperate to again be lovely, she visits a dastardly dermatologist who tells her that for his experiment to work, she must provide him with a constant supply of fresh skin and blood for the transfusions she will need. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1968
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, All Movie Guide
The title character in Juan Colorado lives a life on the run from authorities who want him jailed for something he did not do. Soon he must decide to focus on the woman he loves, or sacrificing that love in order to even the score with those who have harmed him. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 1964
In this western, the trouble begins when a rancher's mother and father are killed by a young outlaw and his family who want his land. The son returns the favor and slaughters them. As the father lies dying, he manages to hire three gunslingers to track the boy down. The boy is a good shot though and kills two of the hired guns and then flees into Indian territory. There he meets an old miner, his wife and their daughter. The remaining gunslinger finds him, but is taken prisoner by the miner. Later, the saucy wife makes a pass at the young man, but he rejects her. In retaliation, she frees the gunman, steals her husband's gold and takes off. She ends up being killed by the Indians. Meanwhile, the daughter, the miner, and the rancher's son are busy fighting off an attack of their own. They then ride off after the fleeing gunman whose horse is so laden down with gold that it collapses. This allows the son to shoot him dead. Afterwards, the son and the miner's daughter get hitched and live happily ever after. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tony Young, Dan Duryea, (more)
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, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress, (more)
- 1963
Boiling over with sexual shenanigans and general sleaziness the Mexico-set tale centers on a confused socialite who falls in love with an American engineer who was hired by her half- brother to oversee his mining outfit. At first the attraction between the girl and the Yank is purely sexual, but soon it turns to love. This causes the half-brother great torment, for he has fallen in love with his sister. Obsessed with jealousy, the conniving brother tries to bust things up by bringing in the girl's ex-lover. He is a cad and after trying unsuccessfully to seduce her, the creep results to rape. The next day, the despondent woman tries to kill herself, but the American shows up and reassures her that his love is true. This was the first film actress Merle Oberon had worked on in seven years and was filmed in her spectacular Mexican home. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Merle Oberon, Steve Cochran, (more)
- 1960
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, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Basehart, Arthur Shields, (more)
- 1960
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, All Movie Guide
- 1959
Recently returned from hunting Tigers in India, sportsman Ellsworth (Parley Baer) declares that he has been placed under a curse. Unless he can find a way to prevent it, Ellsworth is convinced that he will be killed by a huge tiger--even though he lives in Houston! Drawing upon his own experiences in India, Paladin (Richard Boone) does everything he can to dissuade Ellsworth from his seemingly unfounded fears...but this is one curse that is not to be taken lightly. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1957
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, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Fanny Schiller, (more)
