
Birthday:
10-19-1906
Deathday:
08-27-1993 (86 years)
Birthplace:
Havana, Cuba
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Footlight Glamour
Act like Jerry Grant
event1943 star_border 7.7
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Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessman from learning his daughter is involved in a local theatre production.
Two Latins from Manhattan
Act like Cuban (as Rafael Storm)
event1941 star_border 5
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Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
We the Poor
Act like Lawyer Montes
event1948 star_border 8
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Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
When Ladies Meet
Act like Walter Del Canto
event1941 star_border 6.8
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Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
The Last of the Fast Guns
Act like Alcade
event1958 star_border 5.3
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A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.
Soledad
Act like Arturo
event1947 star_border 5
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Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
El socio
event1946 star_border 5.5
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A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
Wise Girl
Act like Prince Ivan
event1937 star_border 7
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Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
Cynara
Act like Mario
event1932 star_border 4.8
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A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
The Fighting Pilot
Act like Robert R. Jones
event1935 star_border 6
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An inventor develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the inventor refuses to sell it to him, whereupon the rejected businessman and his henchmen steals the plane and its blueprints. The plane's test pilot, who is the boyfriend of the inventor's daughter, and his sidekick set out to get the plane, and the plans, back.
Thanks for Listening
Act like Maurice
event1937 star_border 2
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Homer Tompkins, a trusting young musician with aspirations of becoming a radio star, is installed in a fine set of offices in Reno by a quartet of con artists who have bugged rooms and suites, with the title of "professional listener", and he passes off what he hears to his employers, Lulu, Trixie, Maurice and Champ and they use the information for blackmail purposes. They also so involve his sweetheart, Toots, that he can not withdraw even when he finally learns he is being used as a tool.
Here Comes Cookie
Act like Ramon del Ramos
event1935 star_border 7.2
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A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Act like Policeman Outside Hotel Room
event1938 star_border 5.5
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Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
Basket of Mexican Tales
Act like Señor Ochoa
event1956 star_border 6.8
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Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.
The Powers Girl
Act like Vandy Vandergrift
event1943 star_border 6.5
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Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
Blood and Sand
Act like Undetermined Role (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.4
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Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
The Misses Stooge
Act like The Duke of Gigolette
event1935
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Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
They Met in a Taxi
Act like Count Petoski
event1936 star_border 6
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A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.
Code of the Secret Service
Act like First Detective on Train (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 3.5
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Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Broadway Gondolier
Act like Ramon
event1935 star_border 5.4
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A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Music Is Magic
Act like Lopez - Cafe Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 4
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An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
Stars Over Broadway
Act like John - 'At Your Service, Madame' Number
event1935 star_border 5.2
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An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
They also sing of pain
Act like Alfonso de Madrazo
event1950 star_border 6.9
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The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
Only Angels Have Wings
Act like Rafael - Purser with the Scar
event1939 star_border 7.3
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A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
Another Thin Man
Act like Gigolo (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.1
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Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Repent at Leisure
Act like Prince Paul Stephanie
event1941 star_border 5.7
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Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.
Pancho Villa Returns
Act like Serpio Reyna
event1950 star_border 5
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It's 1913, and noble Mexican General Pancho Villa leads his troops against the assassins of President Madero.
The Golden Arrow
Act like Prince Peter
event1936 star_border 6.1
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A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
I Take This Woman
Act like Raoul Cedro (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.2
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On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
Kiss and Make-Up
Act like Rolando
event1934 star_border 5.2
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Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
The House of a Thousand Candles
Act like Jules Gregoire
event1936
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The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to Geneva by train, Tony is drugged by sexy cabaret dancer Raquel, who promptly steals the message -- only to be murdered by sinister master spy Sebastian, owner of a posh gambling casino known as The House of a Thousand Candles.
Let's Go Native
Act like Argentine Producers' Representative (uncredited)
event1930 star_border 7.5
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The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
The Mark of Zorro
Act like Diego's Manservant (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7.1
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Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop, while on the other he is the masked avenger Zorro.
The Howards of Virginia
Act like Lafayette
event1940 star_border 6.4
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Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
Arise, My Love
Act like French Correspondent (Uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.1
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A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
New Moon
Act like Monsieur de Piron
event1940 star_border 6.8
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A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
Torrid Zone
Act like Man
event1940 star_border 6.3
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A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
Down Argentine Way
Act like Señor Vallergo (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which include the larger-than-life Carmen Miranda singing the hit “South American Way” and a showstopping dance routine by the always amazing Nicholas Brothers.
I Slept With a Ghost
Act like Insp. Carlos Vejar
event1949 star_border 5
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Ghost horror-comedy.
Soy un prófugo
Act like El jefe
event1946 star_border 7.7
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A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
Drop the Curtain
Act like Jefe de banda criminal
event1955 star_border 6.8
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Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
The Kneeling Goddess
Act like Demetrio
event1947 star_border 6.6
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Businessman Antonio is carrying on an affair with Raquel, who wants him to divorce his wife Elena. He purchases for Elena as an anniversary gift a statue – the titular Kneeling Goddess – which, unbeknownst to him, features Raquel as the model. Antonio marries Raquel after Elena dies under suspicious circumstances — but not everything is what it seems.
Pepita Jimenez
Act like Conde
event1946 star_border 4.8
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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.
Los líos de Barba Azul
Act like don Agustín
event1955 star_border 5.7
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A news reporter falls in love with a millionaire's young daughter, but her father tells him he won't let them marry unless he earns one million Pesos first. Helped by a friend, he tries to earn the money by marrying - and murdering - four rich women.
Castles in the Air
Act like Alberto Guzmán
event1938
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After winning a trip to Hollywood, office typist Lolita Álvarez (Cristina Téllez) travels to the city of dreams on an ocean liner in the company of her aunt Gertrudis (Pilar Arcos). During the trip, she meets and falls for banker Alberto Guzmán (Rafael Alcayde), mistaking him for a prince while she herself pretends to be a well-travelled socialite. The film features a flamenco-inspired tap dancing scene performed by dancer Edith Davis.
Cinco rostros de mujer
Act like Miguel (as Rafael Alcaide)
event1947 star_border 6
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"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
Meet the Wildcat
Act like Clerk
event1940
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Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced that Brod is the notorious art thief known as "The Wildcat," Ann follows him into the street and accuses him of being the thief. Even though the police attest that Brod is a New York City police detective, Ann remains dubious.
The Hidden One
Act like Amo de hacienda
event1956 star_border 4.9
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Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is much-sought-after by high-society men, but she cannot forget her love for a rebel leader.
La venenosa
Act like Harold
event1949 star_border 5.5
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A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
Straight, Place and Show
Act like Boris Borokov - Russian Jockey
event1938 star_border 6
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The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
Mexican Spitfire Out West
Act like Travel Clerk
event1940 star_border 4.6
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Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. Instead of a second honeymoon, Carmelita begins divorce proceedings
Submarine Base
Act like Felipo
event1943 star_border 4.2
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Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
Background to Danger
Act like Turkish Husband on Train
event1943 star_border 6.6
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An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Secreto entre mujeres
event1949 star_border 5
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A big ol' player has different stages of a thing happening with each of the five women in a household.
Venus de fuego
event1949 star_border 5
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Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle.
Flight from Destiny
Act like Monsieur Lascaut
event1941 star_border 5.2
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After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
The Bride Wore Red
Act like Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.7
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A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
Villa!!
Act like Don Alfonso
event1958
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Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa
Ten Days To Tulara
Act like Mexican colonel
event1958 star_border 4.8
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Director George Sherman's 1958 western about gold thieves in Mexico stars Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor and Rodolfo Hoyos.
La faraona
Act like Eduardo
event1956 star_border 3.5
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Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
El Colmillo de Buda
event1949 star_border 5
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Burlesque version of The Moonstone; the Prince of Panchistan and his cohorts are in Mexico to retrieve a sacred relic. Wacky hijinks ensue.
La vorágine: abismos de amor
event1949 star_border 5.3
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It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
Only Yesterday
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.8
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On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
The Brave One
Act like Señor Vargas (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 5.6
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A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
The Mark of the Skunk
Act like Capitán don Gaspar de Cadereyta
event1950 star_border 6.7
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In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.
Pacto con el Diablo (o el socio, Mr. Davis)
event1929
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Juan is summoned by Goldenberg to offer him a job in the cheap business. To get away from him, Pardo evades his proposals justifying himself by saying that he must consult with his partner; who, in reality, does not exist. As the story progresses we can see how this partner, who is called Mr. Davis, takes on a life of his own inside Juan's mind.
Las cuatro plumas
event1928
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Venezuelan adaptation of The Four Featehr by A.E.W. Mason. A story of courage and redemption set in the British Empire's colonial era. When Harry Feversham resigns from his military post before a Sudan campaign, he's branded a coward and given four white feathers by his fiancée and friends. To prove his bravery, Harry embarks on a dangerous mission to Sudan to aid his comrades in secret. Overcoming peril and doubt, he redeems himself, eventually returning the feathers.
Sheena: Queen of the Jungle
Act like Gonzales (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 4.5
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The adventures of a woman who grew up in the jungle as she protects the beasts and the natives while encountering white hunters, native Africans, wild animals and slave traders.
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