Juan Charrasqueado is a 1948 Mexican action film directed by Ernesto Cortázar and starring Pedro Armendáriz, Miroslava and Fernando Soto. The film's sets were designed by the art director Francisco Marco Chillet.
, 1h40 Directed byRogelio A. González GenresComedy, Musical, Romance ActorsPedro Infante, Miroslava, Blanca de Castejón, Fernando Casanova, Dolores Camarillo, Rafael Estrada Rating80% In a mansion outside a nameless city (apparently Mexico City), lives the wealthy Valverde family: the patriarch Miguel (Oscar Pulido) a business man; Emilia (Blanca de Castejón), his wife, a fun and good-hearted but slightly deranged woman; and their two daughters: the oldest, Susi, short for Susana, (Miroslava Stern) and Lala, a nickname for Laura(Anabelle Gutierrez). Emilia often picks up tramps in hope to reform them into productive men, but they always disappear stealing anything they can in the house.
, 1h30 Directed byStuart Heisler OriginUSA GenresDrama ActorsSusan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendáriz, Lloyd Gough, Chill Wills, Ed Begley Rating61% The plot revolved around the Tulsa, Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s and detailed how obsession with accumulating wealth and power can tend to corrupt moral character. The story begins with the death of rancher Nelse Lansing, who is killed by an oil well blowout while visiting a well operated by Tanner Petroleum to report that pollution from the oil production has killed some of his cattle. The plot thickens as Lansing's daughter, Cherokee, acquires drilling rights and meets Brad Brady, a geologist who wants the oil drillers to limit their drilling in order to minimize oil field depletion and to preserve the area's grasslands.
, 1h23 Directed byEmilio Fernández GenresDrama, War, Action, Adventure ThemesPolitical films ActorsPaulette Goddard, Pedro Armendáriz, Walter Reed, Gilbert Roland, Julio Villarreal, José Torvay Rating54% The Mexican revolutionary General Jose Juan Reyes (Pedro Armendáriz) and his men descend upon and take over the small town of Cholula, Puebla, and take the money of the rich men of the zone for the Mexican Revolution. The revolutionary is a Robin-Hood type vigilante that forces the local businessmen to bend to his will, while the townspeople admire him for his cause. Jose Juan falls in love with the Señorita Peñafiel, the explosive daughter of the richest man of the zone. Despite her disdain for Jose, he pursues her romantically. She is eventually won over. The original script is based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.