Manuel Noriega

Manuel Noriega

Born: July 24, 1880
Died: August 12, 1961
in Colombres, Asturias, España
Manuel "Manolo" Noriega, (July 24, 1880 - August 12, 1961) was a stage and film actor, screenwriter, and film director. Born Manolo Noriega Ruiz in Spain, he worked in live theatre for many years, performing in his native Spain as well in Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. A pioneer in silent film, he made his first screen appearance in 1907. It is believed some of his early silent films have been lost but his main body of work began in talkies in the early 1930s, performing in close to two hundred sound films. Noriega earned an Ariel Award nomination for "Best Actor in a minor role" for his performance in the 1946 film, "Pepita Jiménez." Married to Hortensia Castañeda, their daughter Carmen became a singer who married Tito Guízar. Manuel Noriega died in Mexico City in 1961.

Movies for Manuel Noriega...

Macario
Title: Macario
Character: Abuelo enfermo (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
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The River and Death
Title: The River and Death
Character: Pueblerino (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1954
Type: Movie
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
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The Abduction
Title: The Abduction
Character: Don Gonzalo (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1954
Type: Movie
In a small Mexican village the news shock neighbors, Ricardo Alfaro, a wealthy local rancher has disappeared without a trace. Taking advantage of the circumstance, Aurora Campos, a strong woman with overwhelming beauty, convinces the authorities to sell her the property in exchange for twelve thousand dollars. Soon after, when Ricardo suddenly reappears, a real battle is about to begin.
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Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Title: Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Character: Don Julio (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
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Reportaje
Title: Reportaje
Character: Police secretary (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
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Dos tipos de cuidado
Title: Dos tipos de cuidado
Character: Rosario's Doctor
Released: November 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins.
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Mexican Bus Ride
Title: Mexican Bus Ride
Character: Licenciado Figueroa
Released: June 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
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Cuatro noches contigo
Title: Cuatro noches contigo
Character: Don Nico, gerente hotel
Released: February 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her.
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¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
Title: ¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
Character: Señor Cura
Released: December 20, 1951
Type: Movie
This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
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Los apuros de mi ahijada
Title: Los apuros de mi ahijada
Released: April 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Irresponsible playboy-type needs to cut down on his nightclubbing and his expensive women-friends and buckle down to his Uni studies. Meanwhile, his godfather...
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Vagabunda
Title: Vagabunda
Character: Don Filemon
Released: July 12, 1950
Type: Movie
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Esposa o amante
Title: Esposa o amante
Released: June 21, 1950
Type: Movie
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Prisión de sueños
Title: Prisión de sueños
Released: October 12, 1949
Type: Movie
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Conozco a los dos
Title: Conozco a los dos
Released: August 31, 1949
Type: Movie
Twin brothers separated at birth accidentally meet each other 25 years later. Girlfriends and coworkers are confounded, wacky hijinks!
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El Mago
Title: El Mago
Character: Profesor escuela, cliente mago (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1949
Type: Movie
A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.
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The Cockfighter
Title: The Cockfighter
Released: October 27, 1948
Type: Movie
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
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El Supersabio
Title: El Supersabio
Character: Profesor (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
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El cuarto mandamiento
Title: El cuarto mandamiento
Character: Don Eusebio Echeverria
Released: August 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A Mexican family drama.
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Tarzan and the Mermaids
Title: Tarzan and the Mermaids
Character: Older Aquitanian
Released: May 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
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¡A volar, joven!
Title: ¡A volar, joven!
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Cantinflas is a private in the military, who doesn't know anything about discipline or following rules. He only wants to think about his girlfriend, the maid in an opulent hacienda. The owner of the hacienda has an ugly and shy daughter, who is in love with Cantinflas. The problems arrive when the family arranges a wedding between the ugly girl and Cantinflas, who in order to avoid the commitment gets himself arrested. During his punishment, Cantinflas learns to fly with a silly and poorly trained flight instructor.
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Encadenada (El yugo)
Title: Encadenada (El yugo)
Released: May 27, 1947
Type: Movie
A marriage becomes a living hell when hubby's pathologies start surfacing.
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Cinco rostros de mujer
Title: Cinco rostros de mujer
Character: Pedro, mayordomo (as Manolo Noriega)
Released: February 26, 1947
Type: Movie
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
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A media luz
Title: A media luz
Character: Juan Pitas
Released: January 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Tango singer exploits the women in his life. Learns a valuable life-lesson.
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Pepita Jimenez
Title: Pepita Jimenez
Character: Ceferino
Released: February 22, 1946
Type: Movie
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.
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The Barracks
Title: The Barracks
Character: Tío Tomba
Released: May 27, 1945
Type: Movie
The film chronicles the adventures of a peasant family of the late nineteenth century to push through his work with the opposition and hatred of the rest of the villagers.
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Twilight
Title: Twilight
Character: Papá de Lucía (as Manolo Noriega)
Released: April 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Neurotic society doctor struggles with anomie and existential despair.
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La mujer que engañamos
Title: La mujer que engañamos
Character: Padre Ramírez (as Manolo Noriega)
Released: March 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.
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Los miserables
Title: Los miserables
Released: December 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Police officer makes life hell for an ex-convict. Based on that novel.
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El ametralladora
Title: El ametralladora
Character: Inspector
Released: September 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Peasant farmer and landowner are rivals for a woman. Sequel to Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes.
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Romeo y Julieta
Title: Romeo y Julieta
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Verona's peace is disturbed by the rivalry between noble families: the Montesco and the Capuleto, irreconcilable enemies. The two families have continued fighting to make life unbearable in the Italian town. The Prince of Verona informs the chiefs that the two families respond with their lives if there are new struggles. At a ball in honor of Juliet, the daughter of Capuleto, incidentally meets Romeo, son of Montesco. Both fall in love immediately, not knowing that their love is impossible.
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¡Arriba las mujeres!
Title: ¡Arriba las mujeres!
Character: Don Próspero (as Manolo Noriega)
Released: July 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
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Morenita clara
Title: Morenita clara
Character: Notario (as Manolo Noriega)
Released: April 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
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Alejandra
Title: Alejandra
Character: Cuñado de Elena
Released: July 2, 1942
Type: Movie
There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.
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When the Children are Gone
Title: When the Children are Gone
Character: Don Claudio (as Manolo Noriega)
Released: July 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Unjustly accused of theft, the noble Raimundo is forced to leave his paternal home. A new incident, caused by the ambition of his brother José, causes Raimundo to be disowned by his girlfriend María and by his father, the just and strict Don Pepe. The only one who believes in Raimundo is his mother, Dona Lupita, a woman who suffers deeply because of the wrong decisions of her children.
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El milagro de Cristo
Title: El milagro de Cristo
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A 1941 Mexican film.
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Con su amable permiso
Title: Con su amable permiso
Released: November 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
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Hombre o demonio
Title: Hombre o demonio
Released: October 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film.
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El jefe máximo
Title: El jefe máximo
Released: October 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
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You’re Missing the Point
Title: You’re Missing the Point
Character: Juez
Released: September 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Cantinflas, the boyfriend of the servant of a rich industrial man, gets into the house in order to kill a mad dog. Suddenly this man appears so the servant tells him that Cantinflas is his wife's brother (Leonardo), who had been lost for years. The rich man then remembers that his father in law's testament could only be paid when all brothers get together, so treats Cantinflas, a real bum, as a king.
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El hipnotizador
Title: El hipnotizador
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Antonio Helú.
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The Hawk
Title: The Hawk
Character: Don Felipe Sandoval
Released: August 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Ramón Pereda.
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Los últimos días de Pompeyo
Title: Los últimos días de Pompeyo
Released: August 7, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.
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El charro Negro
Title: El charro Negro
Character: Don Pedro
Released: July 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four.
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Mi madrecita
Title: Mi madrecita
Released: May 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Woman faces the vicissitudes of life with her three adult children well in the background. But when the chips are down...
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Viviré otra vez
Title: Viviré otra vez
Character: Dr. Guzman (as Manolo Noriega)
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Card-sharks blackmail a dissolute young man into participating in a big robbery; his brother takes the rap for him.
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In the Times of Don Porfirio
Title: In the Times of Don Porfirio
Released: April 4, 1940
Type: Movie
In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late. The bride, who is pregnant, is sent to Paris by the snubbed family.
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Harvest of Hate
Title: Harvest of Hate
Released: February 29, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.
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La zandunga
Title: La zandunga
Character: Don Eulogio (as Manolo Noriega)
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
It is the story of a beautiful Tehuana woman who falls in love with a sailor who leaves with the promise of returning, but due to her delay she decides to accept a former suitor as her husband. Finally, when the marriage is about to materialize, the sailor returns creating an emotional conflict in her that is resolved thanks to her fiancé who, by intuiting her true feelings, leaves her free to stay with the sailor
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Ojos tapatios
Title: Ojos tapatios
Character: Chefo
Released: February 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Eterna mártir
Title: Eterna mártir
Character: Jaime
Released: October 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her husband in order to buy medicine and a doctor's care for the couple's seriously ill infant son. Consequently, the well-meaning woman is willingly sentenced to years in prison for a crime she did not commit-all because she believes her son will fare better if the bond between father and son remains intact. Upon her release, she soon discovers that no good deed goes unpunished. Her once loving husband has remarried a woman that her son calls Mother, After just a brief glimpse of her loved ones, she simply leaves without saying a word. Many years later, she becomes a patient at her son's busy medical practice just so that she can keep an eye on his progress in secret. In a cruel twist of fate, it is only after he diagnoses her as being terminally ill does does she reveal her true identity. The poor woman subsequently learns that her former father-in-law lied about her initial release from ...
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Las cuatro milpas
Title: Las cuatro milpas
Released: August 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Bad dude tries to make time with a good dude's fiancée. When he can't get anywhere with her, he and his sidekick frame the good dude for a murder and a bunch of thefts.
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La honradez es un estorbo
Title: La honradez es un estorbo
Character: Pepe Alcántara
Released: July 23, 1937
Type: Movie
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Ave sin rumbo
Title: Ave sin rumbo
Character: Doctor Alvarez
Released: June 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?
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¡Esos hombres!
Title: ¡Esos hombres!
Character: José
Released: April 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A 1937 film.
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Honrarás a tus padres
Title: Honrarás a tus padres
Character: Dr. Fernando
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
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Novillero
Title: Novillero
Released: February 2, 1937
Type: Movie
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The Imposter
Title: The Imposter
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
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Allá en el Rancho Grande
Title: Allá en el Rancho Grande
Character: Don Rosendo
Released: October 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
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El calvario de una esposa
Title: El calvario de una esposa
Character: Juez
Released: September 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his niece, Betty (Frances Grant), that her father is presumed dead. Soon after he returns, scavengers destroy the family home and he and Betty escape westward. Meanwhile, Gen. John Harvey (William Welch), Betty's father, has been seriously injured but is not dead. He arrives at the deserted plantation with the help of Union soldier Tom (Bob Steele), who then pledges to help John find his family
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The Macabre Trunk
Title: The Macabre Trunk
Character: Dr. Monroy
Released: September 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
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Malditas sean las mujeres
Title: Malditas sean las mujeres
Character: Señor de Velasco
Released: July 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.
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The Dead Speak
Title: The Dead Speak
Character: Profesor Jiménez
Released: October 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Professor Jiménez believes the human retina retains the image of the last thing a person sees before death. Only his student Eduardo stands by him in the face of widespread mockery. Together they will try and prove the professors theory but fate has a unpleasant way of helping them do this.
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Mystery of the Ghastly Face
Title: Mystery of the Ghastly Face
Character: Justo
Released: March 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Forti carries out strange experiments, assisted by his son Pablo. They embark on an expedition to the jungle. Eight years later Forti returns without his son but strange things start to happen in the old house where they live.
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Two Monks
Title: Two Monks
Released: November 28, 1934
Type: Movie
In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them.
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Soulless Women
Title: Soulless Women
Character: Bank employer
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Julian gets framed for stealing a company check by his superior Carlos who's courting his wife Olga together trying to get him outa the way so they can be together, setting him up, the deed does the job and Julian lands in jail.
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Island Revenge
Title: Island Revenge
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie