3 Godfathers 1948  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Three Godfathers
Director: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh, Jane Darwell, Ben Johnson, Mildred Natwick, Guy Kibbee, Dorothy Ford, Charles Halton, Hank Worden, Jack Pennick, Fred Libby, Michael Dugan
Three outlaws, Robert Marmaduke Hightower, Pedro "Pete" Roca Fuente, and William Kearney "the Abilene Kid" (John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, and Harry Carey Jr.), become godfathers to an orphaned baby. When two of them die, the remaining guardian, Hightower, undergoes a spiritual change and cares for the baby.
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Beyond All Limits 1959  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: For de Mayo
Flowers of Mayo
Director: Roberto Gavaldon
Cast: Jack Palance, Maria Felix, Pedro Armendariz, Domingo Soler, Carlos Montalban, Paul Stewart, Jorge Martinez de Hoyos, Emma Roldan, Juan Muzquiz, Enrique Lucero
Set in a Mexican coastal fishing town, fisherman Pepe Gamboa (Pedro Armendariz), wife Magdalena (Maria Felix), and son live a good life–until American Jim Gatsby (Jack Palance) appears on the scene. Jim and Magdalena were once lovers, and Pepe's son may have been fathered by Jim, or so Pepe fears.
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The Brute 1952 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Pedro Armendariz, Katy Jurado, Andres Soler, Rosa Arenas, Roberto Meyer, Beatriz Ramos, Paco Martinez, Gloria Mestre, Paz Villegas, Jose Munoz, Diana Ochoa, Ignacio Villabajo
Slaughterhouse worker Pedro (Pedro Armendariz), called "The Brute" due to his exceptional strength, is also slow of mind. When his landlord hires him to frighten evicted tenants into leaving, Pedro accidentally kills the leader of the tenants who are fighting to stay. Meanwhile, he has been having an affair with the landlord's wife (Katy Jurado). When Pedro is injured during a fight, he is nursed back to health by a young woman who, unknown to her, is the daughter of the man he killed.
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The Cananea Prison 1960  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Foreign / Western
aka: Pursuit Across the Desert
Director: Gilberto Gazcon
Cast: Pedro Armendariz, Agustin de Anda, Sonia Furio, Teresa Velazquez, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Felix Gonzalez, Jose Chavez, Andres Soler
Wrongfully jailed for murder, Ramon (Agustin de Anda) escapes with persistent and successful tracker Pedro (Pedro Armendariz) hot on his trail across the desert. After the capture, the two begin to understand each other, but will Pedro accept Ramon's story? A good Western.
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The Conqueror 1956   N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Dick Powell
Cast: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendariz, Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt, William Conrad, Lee Van Cleef, Thomas Gomez, Billy Curtis
This unintentional comedy stars John Wayne as Gengis Khan and Susan Hayward as Bortai his concubine. It is supposed to be a tension-filled action story of Mongols versus the Tartars, but it ends up being little more than silly dialogue. 2 User Reviews
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| | Deadly | Anonymous 02/04/2008 | | This is the film famous for the fact that all of the stars of the film would die of cancer, believed to have been caused (at least in part) by nearby nuclear bomb testing by the government. This is a film that should never have been made and certainly not "on location." |
| | The Critics were right | 1fatts 04/05/2007 | Nobody liked this movie.
Sometimes everybody can be wrong.
Not this time though. |
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Enamorada 1946 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Girl in Love
Director: Emilio Fernandez
Cast: Maria Felix, Pedro Armendariz, Fernando Fernandez, Jose Morcillo, Eduardo Arozamena, Miguel Inclan, Manuel Donde, Eugenio Rossi, Norma Hill, Juan Garcia, Jose Torvay, Pascual Garcia Pena
Set during the Mexican Revolution, this is the story of a revolutionary general (Pedro Armendariz) who is sworn to kill all aristocrats. He meets the beautiful daughter (Maria Felix) of an aristocrat. Not only does the general not harm her, he grows to love her, while she changes from hatred of him to love.
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Fort Apache 1948  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Western
Director: John Ford
Cast: Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Ward Bond, John Agar, George O'Brien, Shirley Temple, Irene Rich, Victor McLaglen, Anna Lee, Pedro Armendariz, Dick Foran, Guy Kibbee, Grant Withers, Jack Pennick, Mae Marsh
Lt. Colonel Owen Thursday (Henry Fonda) is annoyed because he has been sent out West to command Fort Apache in Arizona after serving valiantly during the Civil War. After his daughter Philadelphia (Shirley Temple) and Lt. Michael O'Rourke (Ward Bond) discover the bodies of mutilated soldiers murdered by the Apaches, Thursday decides to stir up the Indians for his own fame and fortune. One of his officers, Capt. Kirby York (John Wayne), tries to teach him the realities of co-existing with the Indians and tells him that the real problem is not the Apaches, but, instead, it is the corrupt Indian agents promoting the problems. York's words go unheeded, and Thursday leads his men into a disastrous situation after which he is labeled a hero by the press.
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Francis of Assisi 1961 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman, Pedro Armendariz, Cecil Kellaway, Eduard Franz, Finlay Currie, Athene Seyler, Mervyn Johns, John Welsh
Bradford Dillman plays the beloved13th-century Franciscan friar who achieves sainthood.
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 From Russia with Love 1963 PG, 118 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller / Romance
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Pedro Armendariz, Bernard Lee, Eunice Gayson, Walter Gotell, Francis De Wolff, Lois Maxwell, George Pastell, Nadja Regin, Aliza Gur, Vladek Sheybal, Martine Beswick
James Bond (Sean Connery) is back in his second film and discovers that he is on the Russian "hit list." While in Istanbul to "pick up" a secret de-coding machine from Russian cipher clerk Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi), Bond runs into trouble with a capital "T." A deadly trap has been set involving enemy agent Red Grant (Robert Shaw) who is assigned to take the machine from Bond and kill him. A fight to the death ensues between Bond and Grant aboard the Orient Express.
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 The Fugitive 1947 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendariz, Ward Bond, J. Carrol Naish, Leo Carrillo, Robert Armstrong, John Qualen, Fortunio Bonanova, Mel Ferrer, Chris-Pin Martin, Miguel Inclan, Fernando Fernandez
From Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory" comes this film adaptation of the story of a priest (Henry Fonda) who is on the run from Mexican authorities. He has baptized a baby in spite of a Mexican dictatorship that has made religious worship illegal. The Fugitive runs into friends (Ward Bond) and enemies (J. Carrol Naish) during his fateful escape attempt. Very good–what else would you expect from John Ford?
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The Torch 1949 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Emilio Fernandez
Cast: Paulette Goddard, Pedro Armendariz, Gilbert Roland, Walter Reed, Jose Torvay, Julio Villarreal, Carlos Muzquiz, Margarito Luna, Pascual Garcia Pena, Antonia Daneem
After taking a small town in Mexico, Jose Juan Reyes (Pedro Armendariz) falls in love with one of the town's beautiful residents, Maria Dolores (Paulette Goddard).
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Tulsa 1949 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendariz, Lloyd Gough, Chill Wills, Ed Begley, Lola Albright, Harry Shannon, Jimmy Conlin, Iron Eyes Cody
Cherokee (Susan Hayward) is hell-bent in her quest for oil–until she finally realizes that wildcat oil drilling takes its toll on herself as well as her land.
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We Were Strangers 1949 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Huston
Cast: Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz, Gilbert Roland, Ramon Novarro, Wally Cassell, Leonard Strong, Jose(2) Perez, Morris Ankrum, Tito Renaldo
Set in Cuba during 1933, this good political drama is filled with intrigue caused by a plot to bomb a tunnel and blow up certain corrupt Cuban government officials.
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The Wonderful Country 1959 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Robert Parrish
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill, Pedro Armendariz, Jack Oakie, Albert Dekker, Charles McGraw, John Banner, Jay Novello, Victor Manuel Mendoza
Martin Brady (Robert Mitchum) is 1/2 Irish-American and 1/2 Mexican. As a gunrunner for Governor Castro (Pedro Armendariz), he meets and falls for Ellen Colton (Julie London)–the wife of a cavalry officer (Gary Merrill).
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| 1. 3 Godfathers (1948)
aka: Three Godfathers
2. Beyond All Limits (1959)
aka: For de Mayo
aka: Flowers of Mayo
3. The Big Boodle (1957)
4. The Brute (1952)
5. The Cananea Prison (1960)
aka: Pursuit Across the Desert
6. The Conqueror (1956)
7. Enamorada (1946)
aka: Girl in Love
8. Fort Apache (1948)
9. Francis of Assisi (1961)
10. From Russia with Love (1963)
11. The Fugitive (1947)
12. The Hidden One (1955)
13. The Littlest Outlaw (1955)
14. The Torch (1949)
15. Tulsa (1949)
16. We Were Strangers (1949)
17. The Wonderful Country (1959)
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