The Mexican Filmography
1916-2001
The Mexican Filmography 1916-2001 by me
(David Wilt) is
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The following are corrections, additions, and
revisions to the print volume, listed by Year of Production (and page
number in printed text, if relevant).
1964:
La fiebre del deseo: UPDATE SYNOPSIS: Jorge (Mistral) is the foreman of a sugar cane plantation and factory in Puerto Rico. Due to debts assumed by his late father, Jorge is also part-owner of the company with don José. María Cristina (de Hoyos), don José's daughter, returns from Europe to marry José Luis, her cousin. Don José, José Luis, and María Cristina try to trick Jorge out of his interests, but he succeeds in taking control of the plantation and retaining his part-ownership of the factory. María Cristina finds herself attracted to Jorge although at the same time she dislikes him. A drunken Jorge, who loves María Cristina, rapes her on the night her engagement to José Luis is announced. Repentant, he marries her but his new wife is cold to him. Eventually, she discovers he is actually an honorable man. José Luis hires some men to sabotage the factory and tries to murder Jorge, but cantina owner Marta--who loves Jorge herself--saves his life at the cost of her own. María Cristina and Jorge reconcile. NOTES: this was a remake of Más fuerte que el amor (1953), shot in Cuba and also starring Mistral.
1965:
Rage (aka El mal): photo caption (p.
353). Jorge Russek was cropped out
so shown are Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, and Raúl
Martinez.
Rocambole contra las mujeres arpías: change Rocambole’s assistant’s name to “Reneé.” Also, Amanda (Torné) doesn’t own the theatre, she just works there as a showgirl.
1974:
El miedo no anda en burro: change all references to “cat Miau” to “dog Mimí.”
1975:
La cariñosa motorizada: replace SYNOPSIS with this:
Caridad (Daviland), called "La Cariñosa," is a prostitute who meets
novelist Raúl (Ramírez)
after a minor traffic accident. Unaware she's a prostitute,
Raúl tells her he is writing a book about a
whore who forms a union. He says prostitutes perform many valuable social
services and deserve recognition and admiration rather than criticism.
Caridad takes his statements to heart and tries to organize a union in
real-life, although this lands her in jail. After the death of a rich
client in bed with Caridad, his relatives spread the story that he
died at work; Caridad
tells Raúl about the cover-up, and he says in his novel the heroine would
do something about this injustice. Caridad disrupts the man's funeral to
proclaim the truth, and is arrested once more. Raúl bails her out, but
says his novel is going to be a farce, and he didn't expect Caridad to
take it seriously (plus, he didn't know she was a prostitute). Caridad
storms off.
1977:
El circo de Capulina: photo caption page 494 should read "Alicia Encinas (left)"
Crónica roja: replace SYNOPSIS with: Manuel (Vigil), arrested on suspicion of smuggling, killed two guards and escaped, but was later caught and charged with murder. Manuel, with the help of his younger brother Mario (Saavedra), escapes again, but both brothers are captured by the police. Mario is sentenced to a short term in a vocational school for boys. Manuel is convicted; later, Mario and Manuel's friends arrange his escape from prison, killing several guards in the process. Mario, Manuel, and José Luis (Cardán) go on the run. The three men reach a provincial city but are tracked down by the police. After a gun battle in which José Luis and numerous policemen die, Mario and Manuel surrender. However, as they exit the house, they are shot to death by the police.
México nocturno: add to CAST: María Safont; Change GENRE: Crime-Drama-Musical; Replace SYNOPSIS with this: Guadalupe Palma (Safont) is a dancer at the Teatro Blanquita, and works part-time as a prostitute. She's hired by mid-level gangster Luis to attend a party and sleep with one of the guests; afterwards, Guadalupe takes something from the man's jacket and vanishes. Apparently, Guadalupe has papers of great importance to the drug cartels, and various factions tear the city apart searching for her. Guadalupe's boyfriend is impoverished guitarist and singer Oscar (Chávez). The couple is reunited at the movie's end but before they can escape, Guadalupe is shot to death by the drug traffickers. Oscar is dumped in a vacant lot. Change NOTES: I think the primary title for this should be A fuego lento with México nocturno as an alternate or secondary title.
El penthouse de la muerte: Change final line to read “Ramiro is arrested but is murdered in prison by a hitman posing as a priest.”
Pesadilla mortal: change synopsis--Alejandro (Junco) dies in a car wreck, leaving his fortune to his mistress Rita (Peluffo). Alejandro's brother Carlos (Ramírez) and son Héctor vow to dispute the will: Alejandro was broke, but he did give Rita some valuable jewels before he died. Rita's daughter Aura (Chagoyán) has a dream in which her mother is murdered by a man wearing black gloves--the dream comes true, and Aura is hired by the police to help investigate the crime by going to work for Carlos as a secretary. Aura and Carlos fall in love. She uses her psychic powers to re-live her mother's murder, locates the jewels, and exposes Héctor as the killer.
Ratas de asfalto: ADD to CAST: Carlos Derbez; replace SYNOPSIS with: Eric (Campos), Horacio (Olea), and Sammy (Derbez) race their cars on the street against Memo and his "club." Horacio is having an affair with Fabiola, Sammy's mother, but Sammy doesn't know this. Eric meets Irene (Martín), the ex-mistress of a wealthy middle-aged man. Eric's father (Silvestre) is another of Irene's ex-lovers. Sammy loses a race to Memo, then wagers his car against Memo's in a rematch. Sammy rams Memo; Memo's auto smashes into two cars full of spectators and all go up in flames. Sammy is rescued but he and Eric are arrested. Sammy's influential father arranges to have his son and friends cleared of complicity in the fatal accident. Eric discovers his father and Irene are lovers. Speeding away in anger, Eric wrecks his car and is killed. Horacio, leaving a tryst with Fabiola, is shot in the back by an unseen assailant and will be confined to a wheelchair. Sammy visits his friend in the hospital and admits he was the shooter, because Horacio was sleeping with Fabiola. However, Sammy is caught by Memo's gang and lynched.
Rio de la muerte: replace SYNOPSIS with: in San Juan, Puerto Rico, playboy Roberto (Rivero) loses a race to Leticia (Miriel). The young people are attracted to each other, but clash as well. Roberto decides to enter the speedboat marathon held on the Río Balsas in Mexico. Leticia will participate, to prove women can do anything men can do. Roberto does well in one stage; Leticia's boat suffers a mechanical break-down in another. Leticia is still cool to Roberto, despite the urging of her friends. Fernando (Moro) tells Roberto that Leticia was married to an alcoholic who nearly killed her; she got a divorce but still has issues with men. In the final stage of the race, a sinister man and his friends cause Leticia's boat to crash, then kidnap Leticia and her two friends. Roberto, Fernando, and another man give up their chance to win the race and arrive in time to rescue the three young women. ADD to NOTES: Rio de la muerte, the Mexican release version of this movie, is basically the same as Juventud sin freno, except that the nude scenes featuring Verónica Miriel were cut. Credits differ on the two versions--Juventud sin freno credits Fernando Orozco, H.S. Valdés with the script while Río de la muerte credits Ramón Obón Jr. with the script and Reynaldo Puente Portillo with the story. Juventud's production companies are listed as Huracán Films-Inter American Films Corp. while Río lists Prods. Miguel Ángel Barragán-Pels. Internacionales. This was shot in Puerto Rico and Mexico (the Río Balsas region).
Soy el hijo del gallero: Change SYNOPSIS: the sister (Domínguez) of the late Luis Macarena hires killers to murder the son (Aguilar Jr.) of Lázaro Trejo (Aguilar) in revenge for her brother's death. After his son is killed, Lázaro tracks down the assassins and shoots them; Macarena's sister commits suicide. Change NOTES to: Sequel to La muerte de un gallero.
El valiente vive hasta que el cobarde quiere: replace SYNOPSIS with: schoolteacher Fernando (Trujillo) is sent to an isolated village where he is shocked by the violent and senseless macho code of the inhabitants. He falls in love with Gerania (Beatriz Adriana) and thus incurs the wrath of the jealous town policeman Pedrito (Martínez Jr.). Pedrito tries to kill Fernando but Gerania steps in front of the bullet and dies; Fernando shoots Pedrito to death. Fernando decides to stay in the village and teach the children in his care that violence is wrong.
Verano salvaje: replace “Prods. Acuarius” with “Prods. Acuario.” Synopsis to be updated.
Bermudas: Cueva de tiburones: replace PROD COMPANIES with: Víctor Films, Amanecer Films, Koala Cin.; replace SYNOPSIS with this: diver Andrés (García) reappears, floating in the ocean, after a six-months' absence. He can't recall where he was. Jackson (Kennedy) hires Andrés and his partner Enrique to recover a box from an airplane that crashed into the ocean (it contains illicit diamonds). The plane is located in a strange underwater zone where sharks "sleep" and don't molest the divers; the box is recovered but Jackson shoots Andrés when he emerges from the water. The box drops back into the ocean, Enrique vanishes, and Andrés is wounded. When he recovers, Andrés, his brother Ricardo, and his girlfriend Angélica (Agren) visit the zone, which contains a mysterious underwater city and some aliens(?). Jackson and his men intervene; Ricardo shoots Jackson, Andrés rescues Angélica but is killed by sharks. ADD to NOTES: Cin. Jalisco is co-credited on Mexican prints as the releasing company. Belma Cin. (Italy) is credited in some sources as a co-producer. In Vistavision.
Chanoc en el Circo Unión: replace SYNOPSIS with this:
Chanoc (Fuentes) and his godfather Tzekub (Valdez)are asked to investigate
smuggling of contraband goods into Mexico. The smuggling seems worst when
the Union Circus is in town. Eventually, López (D'Carlo) and
circus aerialist Araceli (Torres) are exposed as the ringleaders of the
gang.
La grilla: add to NOTES: grilla means a female cricket,
but it
also refers to behind-the-scenes conversations between politicians and
others, generally with the connotation of corruption. Replace SYNOPSIS
with: this film features three segments. The first deals with corrupt,
sexist college professor Rafael (Suárez) whose life is complicated
by his wife, daughters, ex-wife, unruly students, and other people. The
second section shows the tribulations of a factory union steward
(Suárez), also corrupt, who meets his match when he buys a used car
that needs a lot of work. The third segment deals with political hack
Panchito (Suárez), whose years of service are rewarded when he is
appointed to run a factory about which he knows nothing. In keeping with
his
new status in life, Panchito takes a mistress, unaware "she" is a
transvestite.
Pum!: change Synopsis--Bruno plans to blow up an airliner full of his wife's elderly friends, collecting on their insurance so he can run away with a younger woman (Liévana), but the bomb explodes prematurely, killing both Eleanora and the younger woman. Bruno is sent to prison.
Los reyes del palenque: Synopsis should read--after the dead of her husband, Paloma (Villa) refuses to allow her ranch to be converted into a tourist resort, frustrating the plans of her late husband's family. Paloma earns money singing at cockfights and receives a loan from the ranch foreman, but her greedy in-laws try to force her to sell by burning the crops. The ranch is saved when a friendly gambler (Cabañas) bets Paloma's money and wins enough to pay off the debts.
Y hacemos de tocho morocho: Add to cast Humberto
Dupeyrón, El Tal Gomezbeck; change synopsis to "two husbands
(Dupeyrón and Gomezbeck) go on a spree while their wives are away,
but it all ends happily."
La coralillo: Add to SYNOPSIS: a young woman uses a poisonous snake to defend herself against those who would do her harm. Add NOTES: this was also released on video as Mata, vibora, mata (Kill, Viper, Kill). I am not sure if the title on the film was changed or just the video box title.
El guarda espaldas: add to NOTES: the title of this film seems to be three words, although guardespaldas is usually just one word. Change SYNOPSIS: Johnny (de Anda), a liquor store delivery man, witnesses a gangland hit by El Tijuano (Guzmán) but the killer goes free when other witnesses perjure themselves. Johnny is hired by Judge Fernández as his driver. Judge Fernández is the secret leader of the drug smugglers and El Tijuano is his right-hand man. Fernández's wife Rosa (Aguilar) is having an affair with Carlos, a nightclub owner. Rosa convinces El Tijuano to kill her husband, but the attempt--during a drug buy--fails because Johnny is acting as the Judge's bodyguard. El Tijuano tells the Judge his new bodyguard is a police spy. The Judge pays El Tijuano to eliminate Johnny. Carlos confronts the Judge as he is attempting to flee with Rosa; the Judge shoots Carlos but Rosa then hits her husband with a car, killing him. El Tijuano kidnaps Johnny's sweetheart Julia (Sánchez Navarro) and forces Johnny to meet him in a factory . Johnny is wounded but manages to shoot the gangster and rescue Julia, whom he promptly marries.
El ladrón fenómeno: replace
SYNOPSIS with: Manos de Terciopelo (Resortes) is a safecracker working for
gangster El Sesos. Captured after one robbery, Manos escapes from jail
thanks to the supernatural powers of his evil consciences Gesta (he also
has a guardian angel, Dimas). Manos, now known as Salvador, opens a
locksmith shop. His real identity is exposed when his girlfriend
Teté asks him to open a bank vault and save a trapped little girl,
Mariana (María Rebeca). However, Salvador is paroled thanks to the
recommendation of the girl's father. El Sesos and the other gang members
try to force Salvador to help them by kidnaping Teté and Mariana,
but their scheme is foiled.
1981:
California Dancing Club: replace SYNOPSIS with: Four sub-plots alternate, all centered around the (real-life) California Dancing Club in Mexico City. (1) Petty crook Carrizo (Guzmán) believes anyone he likes is destined for bad luck. He falls for Silvia (Lazareno), an attractive woman who comes to the club, but she collapses on the dance floor. To pay for her medical treatment, Carrizo breaks into the home of a wealthy doctor (Moro). The doctor promises to help Silvia and to find Carrizo honest work, so he surrenders. (2) The doctor's wife left him and his young daughter died, so he has been a workaholic since then. However, his sexy maid Juanita (Mendoza) convinces him to visit the club and enjoy himself. They fall in love. (3) Club singer José Juan (Munguía) loves Cecilia, but she lost her sight in a car accident. Cecilia is depressed and attempts to commit suicide; José Juan intends to donate his own corneas for transplants, but another donor is found and Cecilia regains her vision. (4) Club dancer El Califas and cashier Mike are attracted to Susy, an apparently-wealthy client of the club. They compete for her hand in marriage, but when Califas learns Susy is merely a maid who was using her employer's car, furs, etc., he dumps her. Mike, however, really loves Susy and proposes marriage.
La jorobada: also released as Si volviera a
nacer
Las musiqueras: Revise SYNOPSIS--remove word "singers" and replace with "music fans." Replace "The young women and their boyfriends play a cruel trick on Anforita, but Jorge defends her" with "The members of the band Los Bukis, believing Anforita has caused the Musiqueras to turn against them, pretend to rob her but Jorge thrashes them." Add to CAST: Los Bukis (band).
El guerrillero del norte: Change SYNOPSIS: Melesio (Valentín),
a former soldier, lives near a large hacienda, whose owner don
Miguel, aided by Capt. Ortiz and his troops, exploits the
campesinos. Melesio kills several soldiers who have raped some
girls, and has to flee to the mountains. His mother is murdered by Ortiz.
He eventually forms a rebel band and fights for Pancho Villa. Ortiz
captures La Calandria, Melesio's pregnant wife, and his troops later
ambush Melesio and mortally wound him. However, Ortiz is shot by one of
his own soldiers; the rebels attack the hacienda and don Miguel
commits suicide. La Calandria and her infant child leave with the
victorious rebels.
Tohui el pequeño panda de Chapultepec: Add to NOTES: The animation which makes up the bulk of this film is from Shunmao (Xiongmao) monogatari Taotao [Taotao the Panda or Panda Story Taotao], a 1981 Japanese-Chinese co-production directed by Tatsuo Shimamura. The on-screen title seems to be just "El pequeño panda de Chapultepec." Replace SYNOPSIS with: in a live-action introduction filmed in Chapultepec Park, Yuri sings a song and then "tells" a group of children a story about a panda. In the animated feature, Tohui [i.e., Taotao] is a young panda captured in China and taken to a zoo in London. He grows up there but is lonely, his only friends the other animals (including rats) and kindly keeper María. After the war, in which María's boyfriend, veterinarian Jorge is killed, María says she is giving Tohui his "freedom" but this ending is ambiguous, suggesting he dies and "returns" to China only in a sort of dream.
1983:
Allá en el Rancho de las Flores: Revise CAST: remove Rosita Quintana; add Norma Herrera, Cristina Penalver; Replace SYNOPSIS with: Rosendo (Infante) owns trajineras, colorful, flower-bestrewn tourist boats which travel on the canals in Xochimilco. His uncles Julián (Cardona) and Miguel (Guízar) run a café nearby. Don Generoso is trying to buy up as many chinampas (floating garden plots) in the area as he can, but Rosendo refuses to sell and advises his friends to do likewise. Isabel and Rosita (Penalver) both flirt with Rosendo, but he prefers Elena (Herrera), a widow with a teenage son. Julián decides to organize the annual "Feria de las Flores," a festival which elects a queen and includes other events. Generoso is angry when Elena rejects his marriage proposal, and Isabel is upset when she sees Rosendo kissing the attractive widow. Rosendo is nearly killed when Generoso runs his car off the road during an impromptu race; the rich villain and his men attempt to abduct Elena, but Rosendo shows up and thrashes Generoso. As the movie concludes, Isabel has been elected Queen of the Feria, while Elena gives up Rosendo so he can marry Rosita, who truly loves him.
El asesino: Add to Notes: "but lobby cards do exist, suggesting it was shown in theatres."
Hombres de tierra caliente: Change plot synopsis to read:
Porfirio secretly hires a man to murder his neighbor, don Antonio.
Agustín (Reyes), Antonio's son, captures the killer and forces him
to confess. Porfirio, whose son Pancho (Villa) is Agustín's best
friend, is
arrested but released on bail, and later murdered in a saloon brawl.
During a jaripeo, Agustín and his horse save Pancho's life
from a maddened bull, but the horse is fatally injured. Agustín
marries his sweetheart (Rojas)and he reconciles with Pancho.
Playa
prohibida: Muerte en la playa was not the video release
title of this movie, but a different film by the same
director.
Teatro Follies: change Notes to “some sources do not list a theatrical release but lobby cards for such a release do exist.”
Vuelven los Pistoleros Famosos 3: move to 1985.
1985:
Enemigos a muerte: add to NOTES: released on video as
Triángulo de la muerte. Rubén Galindo Jr.'s name has
the "Jr." omitted on the end credits.
Change SYNOPSIS: Damián
(Zermeño), Jorge (Yáñez) and Gabriela (Rosen) are a
trio of crooks; Damián and Gabriela are currently lovers, while Gabriela
and Jorge were lovers. Jorge wins a high-stakes poker game with El
Árabe(by cheating), but is later ordered to repay the
money he won. El Árabe's henchmen say they will hold Damián
and Gabriela accountable for the debt. All three friends leave town to
avoid the gangster's wrath. In a small provincial city, Jorge pulls a
spur of the moment robbery in a jewelry shop, but Damián is shot in
the back by one of the employees. Believing he is dead, Jorge and
Gabriela escape together. In Acapulco, they discover the robbery netted
them a fortune in diamonds, but are unaware these belong to gangster
Nicky. Damián survives his wound and is imprisoned, but refuses
the offer of Nicky to free him in exchange for the diamonds, until he sees
a picture of Jorge and Gabriela on the beach and thinks he's been
betrayed. Jorge repays his debt to El Árabe with several of the
diamonds. Damián abducts Gabriela and recovers the gems himself.
Jorge escapes and confronts Damián, but the men realize Gabriela
has absconded with the diamonds! Gabriela tries to sell the diamonds to
El Árabe but Jorge and Damián arrive and El Árabe and
his men are killed in a gunfight. Nicky's mob appears! The movie
concludes on a freeze-frame as Damián, Jorge and Gabriela dash out
of the house, guns in hand, to certain death.
Mecánicos ardientes: Replace SYNOPSIS with: Hilario, Cigüeñal, and
Resortes are mechanics. Hilario (Ramírez) is a womanizer who admits he has
children by a least
seven different women; as the film opens, his latest mistress, exotic dancer Princesa
Maya, breaks up with him and returns the gifts he gave her. While seducing (or attempting
to) other women, Hilario begins a courtship of middle-aged widow Catalina (Daviland).
After a series of episodes, Hilario finally proposes to Catalina. Meanwhile,
Cigüeñal is tricking into marrying Cholita, recently arrived from the provinces. After
the double wedding, everyone celebrates at a party in the vecindad. Catalina tells
Hilario he has to stop his womanizing, and Cholita warns Cigüeñal that the woman is the
boss of the home. Princesa Maya shows up to criticize Hilario, but is driven off at
gunpoint by the irate Catalina.
Vuelven los Pistoleros Famosos 3 (Parte final): the on-screen
title is as listed above, although this is often cited as just
Pistoleros Famosos 3. Shooting started September 1985 according to
an on-screen note, and this is also (c) 1985, so the sources which list
this as a 1983 film are incorrect. Production company listed is only
Impulsora Mexicana de Películas. "Coyote Loco" in the book is
incorrect: the character is called "Coyote Chico."
Cuando los hijos no vienen: add to NOTES: released on
video as Mi querida vecindad 2 (although it is not a sequel to Mi querida
vecindad). replace SYNOPSIS with this: Chucho (Ramírez) is married to the
scatter-brained Susana (Daviland), who spends her time in the beauty parlor and playing
cards with her friends. Through a mixup, Chucho thinks his wife has been unfaithful to him
and goes home to his mother in Guadalajara! Susana asks her friend Silvia for help in
getting Chucho back; Silvia suggests Susana claim she is pregnant; Chucho gets a telegram
informing him of the birth of his child. He decides to return to Mexico City, which
throws Susana into a panic: she doesn't really have a baby. Silvia's husband El Pollo is
dispatched to a nearby orphanage to obtain an infant, returning home with the baby just
ahead of Chucho. Matters become complicated when the director of the orphanage calls and
says the baby's mother wants her child back. El Pollo visits their laundress, who has
just had twins, and brings back one of the babies to substitute. Chucho discovers both
infants, but is convinced that Susana had twins (later, when another infant is brought in,
he believes she had triplets). Finally, the truth is exposed. Chucho is depressed, but
Susana says they can try to have their own child.
Los lavaderos: replace SYNOPSIS with:
The residents of a vecindad include blonde Lupe, shoe
repairman Nicanor (Ortín), snooty Virginia (Peluffo), Petrita and
her teenage daughter Rosa (Santos) exotic dancer Nora (May) and her gay
"sister" Lalito, young man Raulito, and the irascible doña Pancha and her
downtrodden husband Panchito. Lupe also has a live-in boyfriend, Luis
(Guinar). One day Lalito, on his way to an audition, asks doña Petrita to
pick up a prescription for his sister. Petrita brings it back to the
vecindad, but accidentally drops it. The bottle is picked up, kept for a
while, and then deliberately "dropped" by various residents, until finally
it's handed over to Lalito.
The various interpersonal conflicts and relationships come to a head
one night. Virginia sleeps with the younger Raulito; Nicanor with Lupe;
Luis with Rosa; and Petrita with Pancho.
Time passes, and Nora, Lupe, Rosa, Lalito, and Petrita are doing
their laundry at the communal fountain in the center of the courtyard.
One confession leads to another: months before, Virginia found the bottle
of pills Petrita dropped. They were birth-control pills. Virginia
switched them for aspirin (or candy) as did Lupe, Rosa, and Petrita in
turn, each keeping the "real" birth control pills for themselves. As it
turns out, Lalito got the birth control pills, which he took, thinking
they were aspirin! Nora, Rosa, Petrita, Lupe, and Virginia are all
pregnant!
But everything works out for the best: Pancho leaves his abusive
wife for Petrita; Luis returns to marry Rosa; Lupe will move in with
Nicanor; Virginia and Raulito will become a couple.
1987
Dos cuates a todo dar: change SYNOPSIS: detectives Remigio
(Rojas) and Cándido (Luján)don't try to kill each other
(although each thinks the other is trying to), the murder attempts have
been ordered by criminal mastermind Muller (augmented by real accidents
and by the murderous plans of Remigio's mother-in-law!). Remigio and
Cándido eventually expose Muller's scheme to rob Mexico of its
natural resources and are reinstated to the force.
Los gatos en los azoteas: replace SYNOPSIS with: Juan
Camaney (de Alba) works as the delivery boy for the liquor store owned by
Sara (Santos) and operated by her philandering husband Lorenzo
(Ballesteros). Juan is courting Maribel (Fernández), the lecherous
Sr. Orozco's maid. Middle-aged architect Julio (Lechuga) spies on his
fellow tenants with binoculars and is obsessed with Maribel. Another
tenant is palm-reader Akenatón (Stiglitz), who dresses like an ancient
Egyptian and schemes to make women his hypnotic slaves (which sometimes
involves murdering them). Julio and Orozco try to seduce Maribel, Lorenzo
has repeated affairs that he hides from his wife (who controls the family
money), Juan has confrontations with Julio and Orozco, Akenatón hypnotizes
and kills women, Julio spies on Akenatón. Sara nearly becomes a victim of
the murderous fortune-teller but is rescued and Akenatón plunges out of a
window to his death. Julio and Orozco are tricked into undressing and
getting into bed with each other, and are then exposed as "homosexuals"
and "perverts" to the other residents. Lorenzo's infidelity is exposed to
his wife; she beats him and they reconcile but he is still unable to
restrain himself in the presence of other women.
El garañón: Remove NOTES: El
garañón Dos was a direct sequel.
El garañón dos: change GENRE to: Comedy-Drama;
change SYNOPSIS to: Chicho (Rojas), after being castrated for his sexual
misbehavior, has become meek and child-like, but is advised to leave his
provincial town when the local choirmaster takes a fancy to him. Chicho
is swindled and thrown in jail in the capital, but is eventually released
and becomes friends with Gilda (Perdigón), another newcomer to the
city who was raped and turned into a prostitute by pimp Toni
(Luján). Chicho and Gilda team up to rob lecherous men, and Chicho
eventually earns enough money for a penis transplant. He and Gilda are
wed at the end.
El muerto al hoyo (y el vivo también): Add PROD COMPANY: Prods. EGA;
Update SYNOPSIS: replace "Nina" with "Nena," played by Maribel Fernández. Nena's
gay assistant is "La Comadre," played by Pedro Weber. Add NOTES: copyright 1989. El chicano vengador: add to NOTES:
copyright 1990; this film was also released as El soplón
[The Informer]; change SYNOPSIS to: Policeman Juan (Valentín) and
karate instructor Julio (Augurio) disguise themselves as the "Chicano
Vengador" to investigate a gang of white-slavers who kidnap women in
Mexico and sell them in the USA. El Chile: add to
NOTES: this was also released on video as El narco padrote.
change SYNOPSIS: El Chile (Valentino) doesn't castrate the doctor who gave
him a sex-change operation, he stabs him in the crotch and kills him. Dos gallos alborotados: change PROD COMPANY to Esco-Mex Video
and Eco Films. replace SYNOPSIS: Antonio (Valentín) and his cousin
Juan Carlos (Valentino) work on the ranch owned by Antonio's widowed
mother Berta (Peluffo). The two young men are both courting Griselda, the
daughter of the town's richest man, Casimiro Malacara. However, Antonio
falls in love with Mariana (Flor), who arrives to sing in the local
cantina. She is a single mother, but this doesn't matter to Antonio; Juan
Carlos is happy, because this leaves the way clear for him to marry
Griselda.
Mariana is actually Casimiro's illegitimate daughter. When the
cacique learns this, he apologizes to the young woman and admits
his indiscretion to his wife Blanca and to Griselda. All is forgiven.
Noche de fieras [Night of Beasts] (Víctor Films-Cin. Jalisco) GENRE:
Thriller; DIR: Alfredo B. Crevenna; CAST: Hugo Stiglitz, Olivia Collins, Jacaranda Alfaro;
SYNOPSIS: Ernesto (Stiglitz) is unhappily married to Isabel (Collins); he is having an
affair with his secretary Alicia (Alfaro) but refuses to give Isabel a divorce until she
agrees to give him half of the company she inherited from her father, which Ernesto now
runs. Promising to sign the divorce papers, Ernesto lures Isabel to her family's deserted
country home, where he rapes her and departs. Isabel undergoes a series of bizarre,
frightening experiences, actually caused by a special effects expert hired by Ernesto.
However, Isabel survives her ordeal; Ernesto and Alicia are both killed, and the house is
blown up by Isabel and her lover, erasing all evidence of the crimes. NOTES: this film was
omitted from the print version of the book. It does not appear in most reference works
and theatrical release is unconfirmed. Copyright 1990.
1990: Lucrecia, crónica de un
secuestro: change synopsis—Lucrecia (Hosta) falls
in love with her captors. The
police, unaware she has decided not to press charges, surround the country
house where the group is hiding. A
vengeful gangster (Jiménez) attempts to shoot Lucrecia but hits one of the
young men instead; the police open fire and kill the other two. Add to Notes: there are some
indications the Mexican and Spanish versions of this movie differ
considerably. Muerte en la playa: change Rodolfo de Anda’s character from “stepfather” to “his
widowed mother’s boyfriend.” Al caer la noche: CAST: remove María Rojo; Update
SYNOPSIS: replace "the capital" with "Monterrey." The priest is played by
Goyri, the boy's widowed mother is Espinosa.
Asesinos: Add to CAST: Jorge Luke; Change SYNOPSIS: an
international gang kidnaps the son of a Guatemalan farmer (Reynoso). He
tracks them to Mexico City, where he teams up with the Mexican father
(Luke) of another victim. The kidnapers are extracting organs from the
stolen children and selling them on the black market. With the aid of the
Mexican and U.S. police, the two fathers penetrate the gang's headquarters
and rescue their sons and many other children. Add NOTES: shot in Mexico
and Guatemala.
Escuadrón suicida: Change SYNOPSIS: the group's leader is
San Martín (del Castillo), and Susana is played by Azela Robinson.
Jóvenes perversos: Add to CAST: Evangelina Sosa; Change
SYNOPSIS: a group of young men
from wealthy families rape a housemaid (Sosa)and videotape the atrocity.
One of the rapists is the son of a police official (Cordero).
She becomes a vigilante, tracking down her assailants and murdering them,
although this costs her the love of a decent man (Gazcón).
El sucursal del infierno: Change SYNOPSIS: the two
men who try to rape
and murder Lara's wife are NOT corrupt cops, but henchmen of the drug
mastermind. The druglord is not killed but rather arrested at the
conclusion.
El superman...dilón: Add NOTES: copyright 1990. Replace SYNOPSIS with:
Ángel (Inclán) lives with his wife Marta (Pasquel), their two young sons, and
his horrid mother-in-law doña Cándida (Salinas). Cándida and Marta force Ángel to do all
of the household chores and cooking (in addition to his day job) and complain about his
ineptitude. Ángel, Rosas, and their friends Lopitos and El Sordo work in a government
office together. Cándida is arrested for driving Ángel's car on a "forbidden" day (due to
smog, Mexicans in the capital have a rotating system which forces them to leave their
personal cars inactive one day a week) and Ángel has to borrow money to bail her out .
Ángel and his male friends have a wild party with four female workers--Ángel is paired
with Gloria, who becomes sexually aroused by smacking him in the face! The Licenciado's
secretary overhears some gossip afterwards, mistakenly believes Ángel is a super-lover,
and spends the rest of the movie trying to seduce him. Cándida and Marta crash a drunken
celebration in the office, hoping to catch Ángel misbehaving, but are severely beaten up
by the party-goers. Cándida and Marta go through Ángel's pants and find a winning lottery
ticket: but it turns out to be falsified, and Cándida is arrested once again. In exchange
for bailing his mother-in-law out of jail once again, Ángel compels his wife to agree to
send the older woman far away to live.
1992: En medio de la nada: change last line. Joaquín is not shot to death, he
stands up to Esteban, but the latter is killed by Raúl, who has just
arrived at the diner. Raúl and
Claudia depart together. La güera Chabela: Add to NOTES: copyrighted in 1994.
Replace SYNOPSIS with: Chabela (Albor), the daughter of don Florentino,
loves Jesús Cadenas (Aguilar), but he is unable to remain faithful
to her. Chabela flirts with Rafael but when he attempts to go further,
fights him off. Jesús comes to her rescue and is forced to shoot
Rafael in self-defense. Jesús leaves town; several years later, he
returns. In the meantime, Chabela has married Casimiro, an employee of
her father, but constantly has affairs with local men. Jesús
becomes involved with young widow Braulia (Soler), but also briefly
reconciles with Chabela. Jesús arrives at the town dance, where
Chabela is dancing with her latest lover. After Jesús calls her a
"bitch," Chabela angrily says she'll sleep with any man because they're
all more man than he is. Jesús pulls his pistol, shooting Chabela
and her dance partner. Jesús is gunned down by some tough
types--when the smoke clears, both Jesús and Chabela (along with
sundry other people) are dead on the floor.
Supervivencia: correct TITLE spelling.
Sabor latino:
revise “Genre” heading to “Romance.” Crisis--NOTES (add): video release title Maten al
candidato. Replace SYNOPSIS with: a Mexican senator (Bonilla) presses
for a law which will allow criminals to be extradited to
countries (like the USA) which have the death penalty. An imprisoned
druglord (Ojeda)--who will face execution if sent to the USA-- orders the
senator's brother kidnaped to short-circuit
the legislation, but the senator refuses to comply and his brother is
murdered. The criminal's henchmen then trick a mime (Jose Alonso) into
believing he has a fatal illness, and offer to pay him a large sum of
money (for the support of his children) if he assassinates the senator.
The mime makes the attempt but only wounds his target; he commits suicide.
The legislation is passed.
2000: Otilia Rauda: this film has been released as La mujer del Pueblo
(Otilia Rauda). Replace SYNOPSIS with: In 1920s
Mexico, Otilia (Canudas) lives on a hacienda
with her parents. She has a mature, sexy body but a
large birthmark disfigures her face. Otilia is married
off to Isidro (Guerrero), the town policeman, who uses
her family money to open a butcher shop. After her
husband gives her a sexually-transmitted disease,
Otilia refuses to sleep with him, and has affairs with
other men. She inherits her family property and denies Isidro access to
it, or to her money. Bandit Rubén Lazcano, wounded,
arrives at the hacienda and is nursed back to health. Otilia
falls in love with him and they have an affair, but Rubén departs
and Otilia later learns he's been seen with other women. Jealous, Otilia
betrays Rubén to Isidro, then changes her mind and sends her
servant Melquiades (Estrella) to warn the bandit. However, Melquiades
murders Rubén instead. Otilia commits suicide. Index: Curados de espantos is on page 630 not
603. Go to The Mexican
Film Resource Page.
This page created 10 March 2004 by D.Wilt. Last update 13 November
2006.
Adorables criminales: this was shot on video so it was NOT
released theatrically. Change director to Luis Quintanilla R. And yes,
this was a close remake of Las sicodélicas, but
filmed
in Morelos instead of Peru.
1988:
Objetos sexuales: Replace SYNOPSIS with: Toto (Montiel) lives with his
domineering and lecherous aunt Rita (Moret). After the sudden death of Toto's parents,
Rita controls of the family fortune and uses the money to keep her nephew under her thumb.
To earn enough money to become independent, Toto's girlfriend (Chávez) hires him as
a male prostitute in the establishment where she works, but this backfires when a jealous
husband (Ramos) shows up. Toto works as a stripper, but is mobbed by the women in the
audience and a brawl breaks out. His girlfriend says she of a private club where Toto can
dance wearing a black wrestling mask and a cape. The real owner of the club is Rita.
She doesn't recognize her nephew (because of the mask), but she is attracted to him.
Toto utilizes her lust to force his aunt to open her safe where she keeps the documents
necessary for him to recover his inheritance. Insurance investigators arrest Rita and
take her away. Toto and his girlfriend can now be happy.
1989:
1991:
1996: