Ricardo Montalban
Also Known As: Ricardo Montalbán, Ricardo Montalvan , ریکاردو مونتالبان
Biography: Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican actor. He had a career spanning seven decades (motion pictures from 1943 to 2006) across radio, television, theatre, and film. During the mid-1970s, Montalbán was most notable as the spokesman in automobile advertisements for the Chrysler Cordoba, in which he famously extolled the "soft Corinthian leather" used for its interior. He also advertised the Chrysler New Yorker. From 1977 to 1984, he became famous as Mr. Roarke the main star in the television series Fantasy Island. He played Khan Noonien Singh in both the 1967 episode "Space Seed" of the first season of the original Star Trek series, and the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He won an Emmy Award in 1978 for his role in the mini series How the West Was Won and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1993. Into his 80s, he continued to perform, often providing voices for animated films and commercials, and appearing in several Spy Kids films as Grandfather Valentin.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: November 25, 1920
Age: 104 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 14, 2009
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Overview: The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-04
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El asalto al castillo de la Moncloa
Overview: In the style of Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lily?", this is a comedic redubbing of "Los Amantes del desierto (1957)" that became a spoof of the Spanish political situation of its day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-21
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Overview: In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, and prepares for a revolt against humanity.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-29
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Code Name: Heraclitus
Overview: A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has total amnesia. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.
Genres: Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Battleground
Overview: Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-09
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Cannonball Run II
Overview: When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheels spinning fast. Legendary driver J.J. McClure enters the competition along with his friend Victor and together they set off across the American landscape in a madcap action-adventure destined to test their wits and automobile skills.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-29
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Overview: Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
Genres: Family Action Comedy Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-25
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Border Incident
Overview: The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-28
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Across the Wide Missouri
Overview: In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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The Ant Bully
Overview: Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir. Convicted of "crimes against the colony," Lucas can only regain his freedom by living with the ants and learning their ways.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-28
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Sayonara
Overview: Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-25
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Cheyenne Autumn
Overview: A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-15
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Mission to Glory: A True Story
Overview: Father Kino , a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the Southwest by teaching them agricultural skills as well as building missions and spreading Christianity. An explorer, astronomer and map maker, Father Kino surmounted numerous challenges as he journeyed through California, Arizona and Mexico.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Overview: A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-26
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Sweet Charity
Overview: Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-25
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Space For Women
Overview: Designed for class instruction and career education, and to prove that space exploration isn’t just for the boys. The film interviews women employed in the space transportation programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and shows the variety of positions that they hold as electrical engineers, aerial photography analysts, safety specialists and astronaut mission specialists. It notes how the women obtained their training and qualified for their positions. Astronaut Anna Lee Fisher, Dr. Patricia Cowings, Shirley Chevalier, Sue Norman, Sharon Orkansky, Brenda Willis, and Astronaut Catherine Sullivan are profiled. Narrated by Ricardo Montalban. Winner of NAACP Image Award For Picture Of The Year
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-10
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Madame X
Overview: A woman married to a wealthy socialite, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had been romantically pursuing her, and is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak with the aid of alcohol and unsavory men, eventually returning to the city of her downfall, where she murders a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Amazingly, she is represented at her murder trial by her now adult son, who is a public defender. Hoping to continue to protect her son, she refuses to give her real name and is known to the court as the defendant, "Madame X."
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-03
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Overview: When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-02
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Two Weeks with Love
Overview: The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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Neptune's Daughter
Overview: Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-10
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On an Island with You
Overview: A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her at a Forces show, the young lad somehow believes she should be his girl. Her boyfriend is just one of those disagreeing.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-03
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Fiesta
Overview: When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-12
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The Money Trap
Overview: When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money and keep it for themselves.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-07
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The Singing Nun
Overview: Belgian nun Sister Ann is sent to another order where she's at first committed to helping troubled souls, like Nichole and little Dominic. When Father Clementi hears Sister Ann's uplifting singing style, he takes her to a talent contest. Sister Ann is signed to a record deal and everyone is listening to her lighthearted songs. She is unprepared for her newfound fame (like appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show) and unwanted side effects, including a wrongful attraction to an old friend.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-17
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Mystery Street
Overview: When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-23
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Fantasy Island
Overview: Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo greet a former reporter in World War II who wants to relive a brief romance that took place in London 30 years ago, a big-game hunter who, for once, wants to be the hunted and a wealthy businesswoman who wants to be a secret and silent observer at her own funeral.
Genres: Fantasy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-14
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Fade In
Overview: A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local cowboy who is hired to work on the film.
Genres: Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-08
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The Longest Hundred Miles
Overview: During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of local children, try to make their getaway aboard a rattletrap, creaky bus.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-21
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Where Dreams Come True
Overview: Directed by African American William Greaves and narrated by actor Ricardo Montalban, Where Dreams Come True is a 1979 NASA film highlighting the contributions of women and minorities and encouraging more to consider a career at the agency. The documentary includes interviews with astronaut-scientists Kathryn Sullivan and Ronald McNair, research psychologist Patricia Cowings, engineer Ruben Ramos, and former astronaut and deputy administrator Frederick Gregory. Much of the work depicted in this film relates to the fledgling Space Shuttle program - which was two years away from its first mission.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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A Life in the Balance
Overview: A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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Desert Warrior
Overview: Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages people to form an army and fight again to Ibrahim. The town gets excited and running quickly, while crossing the desert, they encounter the enemy caravans and raid without knowing that one of them is Fatima, daughter of Ibrahim, who poses as a singer of the harem. Said, dazzled by the beauty of the girl, released. But soon after, Fatima, who also doesn´t know the origin of the robber, sees him again, and among them born a strong attraction.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-10-31
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Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Overview: Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-07-25
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Love Is a Ball
Overview: Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-24
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Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century: A Message of Urgency
Overview: Deeply rooted in humanity's history, the Blessed Virgin Mary has been making repeated visitations throughout the world, particularly in the latter part of the 20th century, to warn us that we are on the brink of destruction unless we heed her messages for repentance, prayer, conversion, fasting and reconciliation. Is humanity on the verge of self-destruction? Can the world be delivered from the fear engulfing it today? Fatima Portugal, Beauraing & Banneux Belgium, Garanbandal Spain, Zeitun Egypt, Akita Japan, Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, Bethania Venezuela, Kibeho Rwanda, Naju South Korea, Ukraine and more...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Reluctant Saint
Overview: Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him to sainthood.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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The Mark of Zorro
Overview: The swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threatens his people in nineteenth-century California.
Genres: Western Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-29
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The Kissing Bandit
Overview: Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the family would rather that he follow in his father's footsteps and become "The Kissing Bandit".
Genres: Western Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-14
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Overview: Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-10
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Wonder Woman
Overview: A super-hero uses her powers to thwart an international spy ring.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-12
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Sol Madrid
Overview: Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug kingpin Dietrich to justice.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-07
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Blue
Overview: A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a Mexican gang.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-09
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Latin Lovers
Overview: An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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Untouched
Overview: With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-12-23
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Right Cross
Overview: A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-06
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Overview: Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.
Genres: Music Fantasy Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-06
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The Queen of Babylon
Overview: In this Biblical epic, a brave Chaldean rebel takes on his evil nemesis, a cruel Assyrian king. En route to his fateful meeting, the rebel hides in the humble hut of a luscious peasant girl.
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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The Pigeon
Overview: A private eye is hired to protect a young woman who has a black book on a crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-04
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Rage of the Buccaneers
Overview: Gordon, The Black Pirate, battles the slavery trade.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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Sombrero
Overview: Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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Three for Jamie Dawn
Overview: Three jurors are ripe for bribery by the lawyer of a playgirl up for murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-08
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Sentinels of Silence
Overview: Sentinels of Silence is a 1971 short documentary film on ancient Mexican civilizations. The film was directed and written by Mexican filmmaker Robert Amram, and is notable for being the first and only short film to win two Academy Awards.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-01
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My Man and I
Overview: In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad check.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-05
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The Mark of the Renegade
Overview: An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-24
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¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!
Overview: Backstage comedy; singer-dancer and her songwriter husband pretend to have an open relationship, because it makes them look smart and modern.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-12-17
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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Overview: After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-22
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He's a Latin from Staten Island
Overview: 1941 Soundies short starring Ricardo Montalban
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Cinco fueron escogidos
Overview: Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavians and Germans as characters, not a Mexican or Spaniard in sight. Another interesting point about Cinco fueron escogidos is the existence of an alternate version, shot in English with a different cast (at least in major roles). Sadly, this film, usually referred to as "Five Were Chosen" but sometimes called "Hostages" (not to be confused with the somewhat similar 1943 Hollywood movie with that title), appears to be lost. García Riera indicates the English-language version was screened in Mexico, at least for the press, but does not seem to have been released commercially in the Mexico or the USA. Since Herbert Kline was well-known for his leftist views, it's not surprising to note that many of the imported Hollywood actors were also left-leaning (and in fact more than one was blacklisted during the Red Scare era).
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-07-08
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Return to Fantasy Island
Overview: A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having their dreams fulfilled on the luxury resort island. Career woman Margo Dean's assistant, Lowell Benson, hopes to romance her; Brian and Lucy Faber want to see the daughter they gave up for adoption; Janet Fleming, who lost her memory on her honeymoon, wants to relive it to cure her amnesia.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-20
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Overview: The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-20
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Fireball Forward
Overview: A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.
Genres: Action Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-05
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All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
Overview: A Celebration of the great life of Frank Sinatra with song, dance, and many famous guests.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-11
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La Fuga
Overview: A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during the days of the French Intervention.
Genres: War Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-07-04
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Pepita Jimenez
Overview: On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-02-22
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The Train Robbers
Overview: A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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Perdida
Overview: This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-10-21
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Overview: Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-12
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The Face of Fear
Overview: A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and with the help of the local police, tries to find the killer before he fulfills his part of the bargain.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-08
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The Saracen Blade
Overview: Based on the book of the same name by Frank Yerby. Pietro is an orphan who is raised by a family friend in 15th century Italy. When the friend is killed by the same nasty baron who murdered Pietro's father as he led the peasants in revolt against the baron's tyranny, Pietro vows vengeance against the entire family. This will prove difficult, since he's been in love with the daughter of the nasty baron since he was a child and wants to marry her.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-06
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The Desperate Mission
Overview: A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.
Genres: Western Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-20
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The Fantasticks
Overview: Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos’ daughter, Luisa, and Ben’s son, Matt, by pretending to feud and forbidding the teens to associate, knowing they will resist their fathers’ interference. As the two youngsters fall in love, the fathers plot to end the "feud" by hiring a traveling showman to fake an abduction and allow Matt to "rescue" Luisa.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-17
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Joe Panther
Overview: A young Seminole indian boy comes of age outside the Florida Everglades by trying to enter the establishment (white man's world). He gets work as crew member on (Brian Keith's) fishing boat, hunts for alligators and has cathartic encounters with bad guys trying to bring illegal aliens into Florida on fishing boats.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Overview: Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative menagerie of creatures. On this bizarre island, none of the Cortez's gadgets work and they must rely on their wits--and each other--to survive and save the day.
Genres: Family Action Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-07
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St. Augustine: The Oldest City
Overview: Presents a field trip through the oldest city in the United States, St. Augustine, Fla., showing restored buildings where colonial household industries are still practiced, examples of original art, and other aspects of this Spanish contribution to America's national heritage. Narrated by Ricardo Montalban. Ricardo Montalban narrates this tour of the United States oldest city. From the restored buildings to Castillo de San Marcos, the city is shown both as it is today, and how it must have been at various periods in the past. Scenes from theatrical films are included to dramatize the city’s history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Deserter
Overview: A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-04
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NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
Overview: Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Disney’s Wonderful World, Walt Disney, The Disney Sunday Movie, The Magical World of Disney. These are some of the titles of the Disney anthology series that first aired as Disneyland in 1954. Ron Howard and Suzanne Somers serve as hosts for the musical celebration.
Genres: Documentary Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-13
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-08-27
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That's Entertainment! III
Overview: Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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Play of the Week: Rashomon
Overview: Several different accounts of the same incident tell quite different stories about what happened.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-12
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Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-02-23
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The Aquarians
Overview: A scientist and his team of underwater explorers search for the culprit who has stolen the world's supply of nerve gas and hidden it somewhere in the ocean.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-24
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Fatima
Overview: This 60-minute documentary uses the reported miracle at Fatima in 1917 as a springboard for an examination of the relationship between religion and science in the 20th century. Participants include: Pope John Paul II, James H. Billington, philosopher Paul Kurtz, and writers Malcolm Muggaridge and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. It is hosted by Ricardo Montalban.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Behind the Planet of the Apes
Overview: Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right onto the movie set to see the actual filming of the science fiction masterpiece. The most comprehensive history of Planet of the Apes ever created, this fascinating 127-minute documentary explores one of the most imaginative and influential series in movie history.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-05
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Santa
Overview: Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipolito
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-06-10
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Cadetes de la naval
Overview: Two young men go through military training, then enlist to fight in WWII
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-02-21
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La casa de la zorra
Overview: The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son and finally acts in a way that'll help him rehabilitate himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-12-06
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Fantasía ranchera
Overview: Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first opera and goes to Mexico City to get it produced. Over half the movie is taken up with a performance of his masterpiece.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-02-12
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I Know Catherine, The Log Lady
Overview: An authorized feature documentary about Catherine E. Coulson, best known as the Log Lady in David Lynch & Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-09
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The Million Dollar Nickel
Overview: Short subject anti-communist 'documentary' in which foreign-born movie stars such as Leslie Caron and Ricardo Montalban urge the audience (in their native tongues, subtitled) to write letters home speaking of how wonderful life in the United States is.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
Overview: This documentary is hosted by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and they take us through the history of Trek. We also get to see bloopers from the original series and the current space program and how progression has been in reality, hosted by LeVar Burton.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-28
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Captains Courageous
Overview: A spoiled little rich boy learns what life is really like after he falls overboard in the middle of the ocean and is picked up by a crusty old sea captain.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-04
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Black Water Gold
Overview: A scuba team, a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian join forces to reach the wreck of an historic Spanish galleon before a well-armed commercial expedition does.
Genres: Adventure Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-06
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Mustang
Overview: Pechudo is a magnificent jet-black stallion who epitomizes the adjective, "freedom." Running wild in Mexico, Pechudo and his running mates are constantly being sought out and captured by ranchers. Time and again, however, Pechudo would elude capture, then return and seek out his fellow mustangs and free them, and the adventure would repeat itself.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-07
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The Hour of Truth
Overview: Mexican movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-15
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Nosotros
Overview: The tragic romance between a woman with a dubious past and a young thief who reforms his life for love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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