Juan Torena

Juan Torena

Movies for Juan Torena...

Jeopardy
Title: Jeopardy
Character: Mexican Police Chief
Released: March 30, 1953
Type: Movie
A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.
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My Man and I
Title: My Man and I
Character: Vincente Aguilar
Released: September 5, 1952
Type: Movie
In California, a Mexican-American is falsely accused of killing the farmer he was working for after the racist farmer stiffed his immigrant employee with a bad check.
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American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Title: American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Character: Juan Martinez
Released: November 8, 1950
Type: Movie
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2001.
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Mexicana
Title: Mexicana
Character: Master of Ceremonies
Released: November 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A Mexican crooner tries to put off fans by faking marriage to his American co-star.
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Verbena trágica
Title: Verbena trágica
Released: March 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Cantabria’s second independent production was very successful in the cinemas of L.A.’s Mexican neighborhoods, although the narrative actually takes place in Spanish Harlem in New York City. On the eve of Columbus Day celebrations, the boxer Mateo returns home from a stint in prison and realizes that his wife is pregnant, and he can’t be the father. His wife Blanca has in fact been having a secret affair with her sister Lola’s fiancé, Claudio. Mateo confronts his wife, but she refuses to name the father, leading to tragic results.
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It Happened in Havana
Title: It Happened in Havana
Released: December 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Wicked man seduces an innocent country girl into a life of degradation and nightclubs.
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Mis dos amores
Title: Mis dos amores
Character: DA José Miranda
Released: October 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Rita Santiago's father, Don Antonio, stubbornly refuses to give permission for her to marry Julio Bertolin, a struggling medical student, because he wants his daughter to marry a rich Brazilian. Because of this, Julio leaves medical school and determines to gain wealth and position for himself by becoming a singer.
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La vida bohemia
Title: La vida bohemia
Character: Marcelo
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger, and the Giacomo Puccini opera. The young, tubercular seamstress, Mimi, falls in love with the impoverished playwright, Rodolfo, but poverty takes its toll on their relationship. When Mimi meets a wealthy suitor, Viscount Paul, to ask him for financial help, Rodolfo dumps her.
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Wallaby Jim of the Islands
Title: Wallaby Jim of the Islands
Character: Pascal the Thief
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a valuable source of pearls in the South Pacific. But Jim's associate Norman has put the whole operation in jeopardy because of his gambling problem. Jim's unscrupulous rival Richter decides to exploit the situation by jumping Jim's claim and trying to take over for himself.
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Espionage
Title: Espionage
Character: South American
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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El carnaval del diablo
Title: El carnaval del diablo
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
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Captain Calamity
Title: Captain Calamity
Character: Mike
Released: November 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.
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The Devil on Horseback
Title: The Devil on Horseback
Character: Juan Torres
Released: October 11, 1936
Type: Movie
This musical tells the story of Campo wooing Damita from Keating with songs "So Divine," "Out of the Hills," "The Love Fiesta," "Oh Bella Mia."
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Meet Nero Wolfe
Title: Meet Nero Wolfe
Character: Carlo Maringola
Released: July 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of suspects is responsible for two sudden deaths, which the authorities at first are not convinced were murders.
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A Message to Garcia
Title: A Message to Garcia
Character: Luís Maderos
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
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The Crime at Midnight
Title: The Crime at Midnight
Character: Alberto Burke
Released: February 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops. Alternate language version of MIDNIGHT PHANTOM (1935)
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The Eagle's Brood
Title: The Eagle's Brood
Character: Esteban
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.
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Angelina, o El honor de un brigadier
Title: Angelina, o El honor de un brigadier
Character: Federico
Released: September 6, 1935
Type: Movie
Madrid, Spain, 1880. Angelina, daughter of the pompous Brigadier Marcial, is tempted by the womanizer Germán, who asks her to run away together, just after her boyfriend, Rodolfo, asks her to do exactly the same thing with him.
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Storm Over the Andes
Title: Storm Over the Andes
Character: Milano
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides in the conflict.
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Una viuda romántica
Title: Una viuda romántica
Character: Mario Castellanos
Released: October 14, 1933
Type: Movie
1933 Spanish language film.
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The Gay Caballero
Title: The Gay Caballero
Character: Juan Rodrigues
Released: February 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle thief Don Paco is hounded by El Coyote (who is really Don Bob) who now has a partner in Ted. Unfortunately Ted is also falling love with Don Paco's daughter Adela.
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There Were Thirteen
Title: There Were Thirteen
Character: Dick Kennaway
Released: December 4, 1931
Type: Movie
This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.
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Common Clay
Title: Common Clay
Released: September 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.