José Torvay
Also Known As: Jose Yanez Torvay, Jose Torbay, Jose Torvai, Jose Y. Torvay, José I. Torvay, Хосе Торвей, José Yáñez Torvay
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Durango, Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: January 28, 1909
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 01, 1973
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Overview: Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-15
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Los chacales
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Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Code of Silence
Overview: An ex-mafioso moves to Mexico to become a writer, revealing mob secrets in his books which are met with understandable displeasure. He is soon pursued by hit-men as well as the FBI, who need his testimony in a court case.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-29
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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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A Woman's Devotion
Overview: An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the ex-GI comes to believe he might be responsible, as he has long stretches where he can't remember anything.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-16
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The Hitch-Hiker
Overview: Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-30
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Bandido!
Overview: American arms dealer Kennedy hopes to make a killing by selling to the "regulares" in the 1916 Mexican revolution. American mercenary Wilson favors the rebel faction headed by Escobar, and they plot to hijack Kennedy's arms; but Wilson also has his eye on Kennedy's wife. Raids, counter-raids, and escapes follow in a veritable hail of bullets.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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Borderline
Overview: The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't pin a single piece of evidence on him. After many botched attempts to get at the crook, they resort to having cop Madeleine go undercover and seduce her way into Ritchie's circle. Before she can get anywhere, she's abducted by Johnny, a government agent posing as a thug. But Johnny and Madeleine have no idea they're on the same side of the law.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Me persigue una mujer
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Miguel Strogoff
Overview: A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines .On the way he encounters adventures and colorful characters.
Genres: Adventure History Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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The Torch
Overview: The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wealthy villager. It's hate at first sight so far as the girl is concerned, but this will soon change.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-02
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Kaliman, the Incredible Man
Overview: Archaeologists, tomb robbers, a strange character and an adventurer undertake the search for the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, driven by different motivations: from the mere archaeological find to the destruction of humanity.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-04-15
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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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Mystery in Mexico
Overview: Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. His first lead is the agent's fetching sister, Victoria, whom he trails to Mexico City. After charming his way into her confidence, Steve helps Vicki unravel the mystery.
Genres: Crime Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-21
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Hipólito, el de Santa
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-03-04
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One Day of Life
Overview: A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-23
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Chisum
Overview: Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-23
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Two Mules for Sister Sara
Overview: When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
Genres: Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-02
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Little Town
Overview: Reactionary local "Big Daddy" tries to prevent a school being built in his district.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-08-02
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Zorina
Overview: This overlooked, if not almost forgotten romantic melodrama from Director Juan Jose Ortega, features a South American-born beauty named Lenora Amar, (whom the Mexican press quickly dubbed "The Brazilian Beauty"), in the title role. Although her acting career was rather short-lived because she chose to end it when she was just 27 years of age, her Zorina co-star and then-husband, Luis Aldas, (starring as" Bardo" in this film), seem to still have made an impact on movie audiences due to some favorable news publicity and the relative success of the handful of films the pair made.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-09-14
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Green Fire
Overview: In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local bandit El Moro's gang and with coffee planter Catherine Knowland's love.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Enamorada
Overview: In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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Aventurero del mar
Overview: Adventure film directed by Carlos Véjar hijo.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Boom in the Moon
Overview: An American soldier (Keaton) during World War II escapes from an airplane crash over the Pacific Ocean. He arrives on a beach believing he has landed in Japan, but he is actually in Mexico. He wanders into a fishing village and is arrested under the mistaken belief that he is a wanted serial killer. Keaton and another prisoner are put in the custody of an scientist who is planning to launch a manned rocket into outer space. The two prisoners, along with the scientist’s assistant, are blasted into space but their craft lands in an isolated portion of Mexico instead. They mistake a beekeeper wearing protective headgear as an alien, while the beekeeper believes the trio (who are wearing wizard robes) are escaped lunatics. The prisoners and the scientist’s assistant are apprehended by the local police, and the matter is quickly settled. The film is notable both as Keaton’s only Mexican production and as the last time Keaton had star billing in a feature film.
Genres: War Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-08-02
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Cuatro noches contigo
Overview: Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Black Wind
Overview: The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-12-23
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Strange Lady in Town
Overview: Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe in 1880, but is opposed by an established doctor, Rourke O'Brien.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-12
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The Fugitive
Overview: Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-11
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My Outlaw Brother
Overview: Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother whom he has always looked up to. A Texas Ranger charged with bringing in, El Tigre and his gang of bandits, takes Danny under his wing.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-22
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Se alquila marido
Overview: Female CEO hires a man to pass as her husband and act as figurehead of her business concerns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-11-30
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Ni sangre ni arena
Overview: Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-05-22
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Por mis pistolas
Overview: Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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Untamed Frontier
Overview: The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-23
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Pedro Paramo
Overview: When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-01-26
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Maclovia
Overview: On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the poverty-stricken Jose Maria are in love, but her father refuses to allow their marriage, or even any communication between them, due to Jose Maria's lack of means.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-09-30
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Maria Candelaria
Overview: A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-01-20
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El ametralladora
Overview: Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-09-28
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Salon Mexico
Overview: Mercedes works as a cabaret performer to pay for her sister's studies. Problems begin when Mercedes and Paco, her exploiter, win a dance contest, but he refuses to share the prize with her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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Los olvidados de Dios
Overview: A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-01-14
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El rápido de las 9.15
Overview: Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-09-11
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¡Cuando la tierra tembló!
Overview: A 1942 film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-04-04
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The Jungle of Fire
Overview: A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-12-27
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El Quelite
Overview: Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-12-10
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La máscara de carne
Overview: Mexican feature film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-06-03
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Amanecer ranchero
Overview: The old massa dies and his son comes home to take over the hacienda. Things are going to be a whole lot different now; he's overturning all the old social order. A-a-and...
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1942-08-29
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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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Canasta Uruguaya
Overview: Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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El Cristo de mi Cabecera
Overview: 1830s, guerrillas in the hills resisting the French occupation. Meanwhile, their leader has a French officer and another guy chasing after his fiancé, and...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-01-03
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The Brave Bulls
Overview: A matador must recover his courage after being gored in the ring.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-18
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One Big Affair
Overview: Lawyer Jimmy Donovan thinks a bicycle tour through Mexico is just the thing to keep him out of trouble until his client arrives. But when school teacher Jean Harper misses her tour bus, all of a sudden Jimmy is in for much more than he bargained for.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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Piña madura
Overview: Bad woman plays men off each other to her advantage; she ends up with about 8 guys she's leading around by the nose. How long can this last?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-06-06
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Rancho Alegre
Overview: Proud old family's hacienda is falling into decay, and the oldest son has to come back from college to set things aright... or does he have other plans?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1941-03-28
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Beyond All Limits
Overview: This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife had been lovers years and years ago -- and now the fisherman begins to suspect that the son he always thought was his, is really the offspring of this foreign intruder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-07-08
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Serenade
Overview: A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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Night Falls
Overview: Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the object of a cunning revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-24
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The Sword of Granada
Overview: In this period costume swashbuckler, Don Pedro de Rivera, the rightful owner of a Spanish castle seeks to reclaim it from an occupying Moorish Caliph. Don Pedro’s accomplice is Juan Ponce de León, who intends to steal the "Rose of Granada," a rare gem owned by the Caliph, which supposedly contains a rare essence that ensures eternal youth.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-01-24
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The Golden Cockerel
Overview: A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting business, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Sonatas
Overview: In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain Casares, and in return, the Marquis agrees to help him escape to America. Adaptation of "Sonata de Otoño" and "Sonata de Estío" of Ramón María del Valle-Inclan, which included elements Bardem later works of the author.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-10-12
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The Littlest Outlaw
Overview: Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for training a Mexican General's horse to jump for the grand race. The trainer's methods cause the horse to become afraid of jumping and the general orders the animal's death. Pablito runs away with the horse, becoming a fugitive. He travels throughout Mexico encountering several fugitives and a priest who tries to help.
Genres: Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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La extraña pasajera
Overview: Noir-style suspense thriller; three unrelated criminal schemes are happening on board an express train; all three get uncovered/solved/thwarted before they reach their destination.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-04
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Kid Blue
Overview: Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-31
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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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The Last Sunset
Overview: At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-08
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El hotel de los chiflados
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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La vírgen roja
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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