Juan Orol

Juan Orol

Born: August 4, 1897
Died: May 26, 1988
in Lalín, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Juan Rogelio García García, better known as Juan Orol, was a Mexican-Spanish actor, producer, screenwriter and film director. He was known as The King of the Mexican Film noir. He was also known as The Involuntary Surrealist. He was a pioneer of the Mexican cinema's first talkies and one of the main promoters of the Rumberas film in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. His films have been described as cult films.

Movies for Juan Orol...

Olmedo: El rey de la risa
Title: Olmedo: El rey de la risa
Released: March 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Aspects of the life of Alberto Olmedo, from his childhood in Rosario, his beginnings as an acrobat and comedian in that city and the continuation of his professional career in Buenos Aires.
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Ni modo... así somos
Title: Ni modo... así somos
Released: September 3, 1981
Type: Movie
Sketch-comedy collection, heavy on the 'sketchy'.
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Adriana del Rio, actriz
Title: Adriana del Rio, actriz
Released: October 4, 1979
Type: Movie
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México de noche
Title: México de noche
Released: June 12, 1975
Type: Movie
Two street gangs vie for primacy, which will give them control of drug smuggling and stolen jewelry.
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El fantástico mundo de los hippies
Title: El fantástico mundo de los hippies
Character: Larry
Released: June 21, 1972
Type: Movie
The head of the FBI explains that hippies were good, but that they have degenerated due to psychedelic painting, drugs, and becoming addicted to free love. Secret Agent Frank investigates Sandy, whose daughter has disappeared, apparently because of hippies.
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Organización criminal
Title: Organización criminal
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A summit meeting of rival gangs, one predominantly Italian and the other a mix of Polish, Irish, and Italian mobsters, fails to resolve their differences, and gang war breaks out.
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Historia de un gángster
Title: Historia de un gángster
Character: Tony Florino
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Sequel to Juan Orol's "Organización criminal". After 6 years in prison, gangster Tony Florino is released from custody. He repeatedly makes it clear he didn't snitch in exchange for a reduced sentence, but was given time off for good behavior.
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Contrabandistas del Caribe
Title: Contrabandistas del Caribe
Released: April 24, 1966
Type: Movie
A crime organization that deals with drug trafficking discovers that more and more drugs keep disappearing. Joe Luciana, a man who is respected for his good deeds, appears to be responsible.
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Antesala de la silla eléctrica
Title: Antesala de la silla eléctrica
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A young man is sentenced to death on the electric chair. The lieutenant who captured him does all he can to prevent it, because he is convinced of the man's innocence.
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Under the Cover of Night
Title: Under the Cover of Night
Character: Jack
Released: October 24, 1962
Type: Movie
The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her sister, is in love with him.
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Plazos traicioneros
Title: Plazos traicioneros
Released: July 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A down in his luck film director falls in love with an attractive waitress and decides to launch her as a big singing star. Once the goal is reached, the girl runs away and becomes involved with a gangster who leads her into prostitution.
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Secretaria peligrosa
Title: Secretaria peligrosa
Released: June 11, 1958
Type: Movie
A secretary plans to rob her boss with the help of her gangster boyfriend and his gang, but a special agent attempts to stop them in their tracks.
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Under the influence of fear
Title: Under the influence of fear
Released: August 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Gang leader sets one of his flunkies up to take the fall for a certain job; after he does his jail time, the guy goes gunning for the people who set him up. Also some stuff about fixed boxing matches.
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El sindicato del crimen
Title: El sindicato del crimen
Released: December 22, 1954
Type: Movie
A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".
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Hombres sin alma
Title: Hombres sin alma
Released: December 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gangster but a rival mobster will make things impossible for them.
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Perdición de mujeres
Title: Perdición de mujeres
Character: Rizo
Released: November 16, 1951
Type: Movie
Small town girl moves to the big city. When she can't find a job, she starts hanging with a bad crowd.
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The Hell of the Poor
Title: The Hell of the Poor
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in order to provide for her child.
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Cabaret Shanghai
Title: Cabaret Shanghai
Character: Tony
Released: August 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him.
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El reino de los gángsters
Title: El reino de los gángsters
Released: August 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zorro, helping the unprotected.
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El amor de mi bohío
Title: El amor de mi bohío
Character: Pablo Mendizabal
Released: November 19, 1947
Type: Movie
El Amor de M Bohio, which translates to "The Love of My Hut" (or shack ) and it comes from the lyrics o a popular love ballad of the same name. It is Director Juan Orol's tale of a violent love triangle where two farm hands out to prove who is the most macho, and thereby win the affections of a woman. This tragic love story takes place on a tropical plantation located just outside of Havana, where its workers are housed in small, thatched-roof "bohios". The two rival suitors are driven by passion for the girl they both love, and soon engage in a series of challenges designed to help this young woman choose the right guy in the end. These competitions start out to include simple and benign activities at first, like dancing, singing and dueling guitars, or betting on the winning bird at a cock-fight, However, they soon escalate to more violent activities, like public brawls, and saber dueling, which set life changing events into motion for everyone.
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Gangsters Versus Cowboys
Title: Gangsters Versus Cowboys
Character: Johnny Carmenta
Released: January 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Gangster Johnny Carmenta must confront the "Charro of the Slums" Pancho Domínguez, who has control over the city, but their rivalry gets worse when rumba dancer Rosa befriends both men.
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Una mujer de Oriente
Title: Una mujer de Oriente
Released: May 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A secret agent investigates the death of the scientist who created a deadly ray only to find out his own wife is involved.
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Los misterios del hampa
Title: Los misterios del hampa
Released: October 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Man on death row narrates the story of his life from childhood up through the criminal activities he's being executed for.
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Siboney
Title: Siboney
Character: Gastón de Montero
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1868, while the Cuban War of Independence develops, Gaston de Montero, a noble Spanish knight, rescues a young girl named Siboney and he helps her to become a successful dancer. Over time, she discovers that she is the daughter of a prominent aristocrat.
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Eterna mártir
Title: Eterna mártir
Character: Narrator
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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El derecho y el deber
Title: El derecho y el deber
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Officer comes home from the Revolution to discover that he's been declared dead and that his wife has remarried and given his lands to another man.
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Honrarás a tus padres
Title: Honrarás a tus padres
Character: Juan de Calvacanti
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
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El calvario de una esposa
Title: El calvario de una esposa
Character: Pepe Luis
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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Soulless Women
Title: Soulless Women
Character: Julián Landeros
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.