***Original Vintage Bullfight Movie Lobby Cards**
The first number following each title represents the number
of cards available.
Email me with your selections, and I will respond with
prices.
arruza---15---100k7
Chantaje a un torero---16---ep4/mx457.JPG
El toro negro---4---bf
Fray torero---18---mex11/mx302.JPG
magnificent matador ’55 bf---15---g14
Sangre en el ruedo---15---bf/mx396.JPG
Sangre torera---6+11---bf
Sangre torera---7---az2
Tarde de toros---12---bf
Torero por un dia---1---bf
Torero---23---bf
Un toro me llama---8---bf
Amantes---6---mex6
around the world in eighty days---31---50100---100k12
Asi es mi tierra---2---1114az---can
Asi es mi tierra---38---1317---can
Camelia---10---art2
Camino de guanajuato---4---art1
Cielito lindo---8---ep4
Con quien andan nuestros locos---8---art3/mx294.JPG?
Divinas palabras---4---ep6
Gato sin botas---10---tt---c1/mx529.JPG
Gringuita en mexico ---20---art4
Juan sin miedo---7---art3
Juana gallo---17---ep3/mx61.JPG
Locuras de tin tan---6---az2
Locuras de tin tan---9---tt---c1
Me quiero casar---2---ep4
Nino de las monjas (toro)---15---mex2/mx256.JPG
Ni sangre ni arena---4---1114az---can
Palomo linares ---10---mex5
Santa---14---mex11
Santa---19---art5
brave bulls---8---com11
Viva jalisco que es mi tierra---12---ep6/mx221.JPG
Yo y mi mariachi---23---ep3/mx178.JPG
Zapatillas verdes---11---art3/mx554.JPG
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The Posters are original, and come from a Regional Film
Archive in Mexico City .
They were designed in Hollywood
and printed in Mexico .
Each Poster contains the same design elements found on
Posters from the US .
They contain both stills from the Film and also design
elements from the One Sheet Poster.
The typography, photos, artwork, stars names, credits,
drawings, scenes, emotional impact,
appeal, and intrinsic value are
virtually the same as Posters from Hollywood
or any other
international Metropolis where the film had been shown.
However, the layout will be much flashier, more graphically
intensive, or even more lurid.
The size is appx. 13" x 17"---over 40% larger than
a standard Lobby Card.
As such, each Poster is a cross between a Jumbo Lobby Card,
Title Card, and a One Sheet Poster.
The Posters were printed on either heavy Cardboard Stock,
thick fine Linen Paper, or
sturdy Poster Stock.
Overall very good condition, altho there will be occasional
tears, pinholes, stains, etc.
There are eight different variations for each
poster---containing different stills from the film.
Some dupes.
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Taurine Films
--México--
--México--
Until taurine film/video files appear
directly on the net , these sections will simply be a listing of taurine-themed
commercially available videos. Those entries with links will take you to other
sites that (1) describe and/or (2) offer the item for sale.
An enormous debt is owed to Paco Ignacio
Taibo I, from whose book
LOS TOROS en el CINE MEXICANO
much of this information was derived.
LOS TOROS en el CINE MEXICANO
much of this information was derived.
Feature and Documentary Films
- LOS AMANTES
(1956) (Prod: Diana) (Dir: Miguel Morataya); Lola Flores, Miguel Aceves Mejía. - LOS AMBICIOSOS (LA FIEVRE MONTE A EL PAO)
(1959) (Dir: Luis Buñuel)
Gerard Philipe, Maria Fé1ix, Jean Servais, Victor Junco, Roberto Cañedo, Andrés Soler, Domingo Soler.
A film, by an open opponent of the fiesta brava, attempting to draw a parallel between the "slaughter" of the bulls and treason. - ANTONIO VELAZQUEZ
(1953?) (Prod: EMA). Documentary. - LOS ARLEQUINES DE ORO
(1944) (Prod: José Marino) (Dir: Alfonso Patiño Gómez)
Unfinished film on the life of the torero, Antonio Velázquez - ARMILLITA
(1953?) (Prod: EMA). Documentary - ASI ES MI TIERRA
Cantinflas does it again. 111 minutes. Available from VIDEO LATINO - BAJO EL CIELO DE ESPAÑA (SANGRE EN EL RUEDO)
( re-titled in its Spanish release) (1952) (Dir: Miguel Contreras Torres)
Gustavo Rojo, Marisa de Leza, Lina Rosales
The unusual story of a violinist who trades in his bow for an estoque. The new career ends however, and he returns to the violin, after his eye is distracted from a bull by the sight of a lovely woman in the tendido, and he receives a severe leg wound. - BALA PERDIDA
(1959) (Prod: Filmex) (Dir: Chano Urueta)
Miguel Aceves Mejía (the bullfighter, Carmelo Torres) , Antonio Aguilar, Teresa Velázquez, Raúl Meráz, Daniel "Chino" Herrera, Delia Magaña, Guillermo Rivas
A young girl (Velázquez) tests the love of her two rival suitors by falsely claiming to have an eight-year old son. Her torero suitor agrees to marry her and assume responsibility for the child - the other suitor refuses to be burdened by the child of another man. Even after the truth is revealed, the torero remains understanding, true to his love, and marries the girl. - EL CABALLO TORERO
(1972) (Dir: Alfredo Zacarías)
Gaspar Henaine "Capulina", Felipe Zambrano (rejoneador), Fredy Fernández "El Pichi"; the novillero Abelardo Treviño "El Manchitas" standing in for Capulina in the taurine scenes. Capulina and his girlfriend try to facilitate the friendship between a bull (Asesino) and a rejoneador's horse (Tequila). - EL CALVARIO DE UNA ESPOSA
(1936) (Prod: Aspa Films) (Dir: Juan Orol)
Consuelo Frank, Consuelo Moreno, Juan Orol, René Cardona, Saúl Zamora, Guillermo Camacho, Icaro Cisneros.
Autobiographical f ilm (Orol, under the apodo "Esparterito," fought for approximately seven years in the Mexican plazas) about a torero who abandons his wife and the bulls for a cabaret singer, who in turn abandons him when he proves to be a nobody outside the plaza. The torero eventually returns to his spouse and the plaza, finding success with the bulls once again. His return home is too late, however, to save his son from a violent death. - CAMELIA
(1953) (Dir: Roberto Gabaldón)
Maria Felix (Camelia), Jorge Mistral (Rafael Torres), Carlos Navarro (Enrique), Renée Dumas (
Mexican version of "La Dama de las Camelias." A matador is badly gored after dedicating a bull to his love, a famous theatre actress. With the couple almost "at the altar, the film erupts when the torero's brother confesses that for many years the actress had been his lover. Eventually, the actress dies in the torero's arms. In one scene, Maria Felix capes a young calf in an open field (some accomplishment, as her male counterpart (Jorge Mistral) needed a double for the taurine scenes.) - CAMINO DE GUANAJUATO
(1955) (Dir: Rafael Baledón)
Lola Beltrán, José Alfredo Jiménez, Demetrio Gonzalez, María Gentil Arcos.
A tale about poor folkloric singers, one of whom (Demetrio) dreams he is a famous matador. - CARLOS ARRUZA
(1953?) (Prod: EMA). Documentary - CHUCHO SOLORZANO
(1935?) (Prod: EMA). Documentary. - CIELITO LINDO
(1936) (Prod: José Luis Bueno) (Dir: Roberto O'Quingley)
José Ortiz (matador de toros), Lupita Gallardo, Arturo de Córdova, Carlos López "Chaflán." Second appearance in the Mexican cinema of the torero, José Ortiz, teamed with Ms. Gallardo, Chaflán, the comic, and the "galant" Sr. de Córdova. (Video Visa) - LOS CLARINES
(Esp-Mex) (1958) (Prod: Barbachano Ponce y Procusa) (Dir: Antonio Román)
From a novel by Angel María de Lera; Francisco Rabal (doubled by the matador, "Morenito de Talavera"), Rogelio
Spanish film (co-produced by Sr. Ponce, a Mexican producer) first screened in - CON QUIEN ANDAN NUESTROS LOCOS
(1960) (Prod: Calderón) (Dir: Benito Alazraki)
Manuel "Loco" Valdés, Rosa Carmina, Anna Carol, Pedro de Aguillón, Pancho Córdoba, Luis Manuel Pelayo.
A farce in which Valdés, for the love of a young woman (Srta. Carmina), pretends to be a torero, Curro Valdés. The highly thought of writer, José Revueltas, worked (uncredited) on the screenplay. - UN CORAZON EN EL RUEDO, (UNA DAMA TORERA)
(1949) 90m. (Prod:
Sr. Procuna "trying" to act under the direction of the exiled Spanish director, Miguel Marayta. - LA CORRIDA DE TOROS
(1953?) (Prod: EMA). Documentary. - CORRIDAS BUFAS
(1953) (Prod: EMA). Documentary. - UNA DAMA TORERA (UN CORAZON EN EL RUEDO)
(1949) 90m. (Prod:
Muñoz.
Luis Procuna, the matador de toros, acting (or, trying to) under the direction of the exiled Spanish director, Miguel Marayta. - LOS DESHEREDADOS
(1935) (Prod: Bueno y Beltrán) (Dir: Guillermo Barqueriza)
Lucha María Bautista, Antonio Liceaga (matador de toros), Saúl Zamora, Joaquín Coss.
Sr. Barqueriza's only film, intended to be a look into the sorrowful world of defeated aspiring novilleros, is a fascinating look at the young, later-successful matador, Antonio Liceaga. - DIVINAS PALABRAS
(1977) (Prod: Conacine) (Dir: Juan Ibañez)
Silvia Pinal, Mario Almada, Rita Macedo, Martha Zavaleta, Martha Verduzco, Alicia Encinas.
Filmed version of the play by Ramón del Valle Inclán, containing a dramatic though brief sequence in which two bulls fight each other. Gabriel Figueroa, the cinematographer, received an "Ariel" for his work on the film. - UN DOMINGO EN LA TARDE
(1938) (Prod: Roberto A. González)
Lorenzo Garza, Lucha María Bautista, Augustín Lara. A film written by Lorenzo Garza, matador turned film director.
Although the public showed little interest in this barely credible, trite story (of a matador whose love for a rich man's daughter is frustrated by the father's disapproval of the match) , it is of some interest for the well-f ilmed taurine sequences. - ¿DONDE ESTAS, CORAZON?
(1960) (Dir: Rogelio A. González)
Rosita Quintana, Lola Beltrán, Amalia Mendoza, Miguel Aceves Mejía, Germán Robles, Mauricio Garcés, Rafael Llamas.
A young fellow (Rafael Llamas) attempts to stand out from a crowd of suitors by becomming a torero, "El Nene," thus capturing his desired's love. - EISENSTEIN EN
(1933) 50m. (Prod: Principal Films & Sol Lesser) (Taurine Advisor: David Liceaga). Documentary pieced together f rom footage shot by Sergei Eisenstein -- at the money-saving insistence of his American producer and promoter, Upton Sinclair -- for some of his other more "monumental" Mexican works (see, e.g., "La Fiesta" and "Qué viva México" (Thunder over Mexico)). - ESTRAVAGANZA TORERA
(1942) (Dir: Juan Josd Segura).
A short-subject documentary described in the book, "Historia documental - LA ESTRELLA VACIA
(1958) (Prod: Corsa) (Dir: Emilio Gómez Muriel)
María Félix, Tito Junco, Carlos López Moctezuma, Enrique Rambal, Ignacio López Tarso, Ramon Gay, Carlos Navarro, Rita Macedo, Wolf Ruvinskis, José Luis Jiménez, Mauricio Garcés, Luis Aldás.
A documentary in which the life of María Félix, the actress, is reconstructed through the recollections of her friends and enemies. One episode involves the fatal goring of a matador after his dedication of the bull to María, and the subsequent confrontation between María and the matador's mother at the funeral. - LA FIESTA
(1931) (Prod: Mexican Picture Trust) (Dir: Sergei Eisenstein) (Taurine Advisor: David Liceaga).
Thought by some to be the most significant taurine history ever filmed, this monumental work was never completed (despite the shooting of some 70,000 meters of film). The footage, after a lengthy oddesy, ended up in the hands of the - LA FIEVRE MONTE A EL PAO (LOS AMBICIOSOS)
(1959) (Dir: Luis Buñuel)
Gerard Philipe, María Félix, Jean Servais, Victor Junco, Roberto Cañedo, Andrés Soler, Domingo Soler.
A film, by an open opponent of the fiesta brava, attempting to draw a parallel between the "slaughter" of the bulls and treason. - EL FILM
(1957) 225m. (Prod:
An attempt to bring together, f rom the f ootage shot by Eisenstein for his never-finished film, "¡Que viva México!," a documentary examining Eisenstein's work in Mexico. The documentary contains a 50 minute version of "La Fiesta" that contains many sequences not previously available. David Liceaga, matador de toros, appears in the taurine sequences. - EL GATO SIN BOTAS
(1956) (Dir: Fernando Cortés)
Germán Valdés "Tin Tan," Martha Valdés, Nono Arsu, Wolf Ruvinskis, Marcelo Chávez "Marcelo."
Tin Tan' s grandmother convinces him that the members of his family have seven lives, like cats. This revelation changes him from a cowardly to a valiant fellow who embarks on a number of heroic adventures, including a taurine confrontation. - UNA GRINGUITA EN
(1951) (Dir: Julián Soler)
Martha Roth, Antonio Badú.
A screenplay written by Janet Alcoriza, a flamenco dancer (who danced under the name, Raquel Rojas), telling the story of a young U.S. girl who goes to Mexico and becomes involved in a number of adventures, including one generating something of a "scandal at a bullfight. The screenplay was f ilmed twice, later under the title, "Me quiero casar." - LA HORA DE LA VERDAD
(1944) (Prod: Azteca Films) (Dir: Norman Foster) (Taurine Advisor: Francisco Ortiz Monasterio)
Ricardo Montalbán, Virginia Serret, Lilia Michel, Carlos Orellana, Virginia Zuri, Miguel Angel Ferriz, Emma Roldán, Mimi Derba.
Another story by the flamenco dancer Janet Alcoriza (Raquel Rojas) (see "Una gringuita en - JALISCO CANTA EN SEVILLA
(1948) (Dir: Fernando de Fuentes (Rodada in
Jorge Neqrete, Carmen Sevilla, Armando Soto la
A Mexican production -- shot in - JUAN SIN MIEDO
(1938) (Prod: Alfonso Sánchez Tello) (Dir: Juan José Segura)
Jorge Neqrete, Juan Silveti, María Luisa Zea, Emilio Fernández. A "melodrama." - JUANA GALLO
(1960) (Prod: Zacarías) (Dir: Miguel Zacarías)
María Fálix, Jorge Mistral, Ignacio López Tarso, Christine Martel, Rita Macedo, René Cardona, Noé Murayama.
An "extraordinary" film recounting a woman's attempt to avenge the death of her fiance. (Video Latino) - EL JUEGO DE LA MUERTE (EL TORO NEGRO)
(1959) (Prod: Matouk) (Dir: Benito Alazraki)
Fernando Casanova, Teresa Velázquez, Alvaro Ortiz, Roberto Ramírez, Miguel Manzano, Manuel Arvide, Manuel Dondé, Alejandro Parodi, José A. Enríquez (matador de toros).
A film free of the usual sentimentality and "literary baggage" that infuses most taurine cinema. The film follows the career of an artless novillero who pursues a future that eludes him, and who finally must concede that fame will never be his. - LOS
(1951) (Prod: Fernando de Fuentes) (Dir: Gilberto Martínez Solares)
Germán Valdés "Tin Tan," Carmelita González, Armando Saez, Marcelo Chávez.
"Tin Tan" decides to become a torero when he sees his girlfriend in the plaza. - LUIS PROCUNA
(1953?) (Prod: EMA). Documentary. - LA LUNA ENAMORADA (LA PASION GITANA)
(1945) (Prod: Guillermo Calderón) (Dir: José Díaz Morales)
Joaquin Rodríguez "Cagancho,"Virginia Serret, Victor Manuel Mendoza, Angel Garasa, Carmen Amaya, Consuelo Guerrero de Luna.
A film of particular interest to aficionados because of the footage of "Cagancho," and to fans of Carmen Amaya, the famous dancer. - MANOLETE MONSTRUO
(1945) (Dir: Alberto Sander)
Documentary film of Manolete's presentation in - MARAVILLAS DEL TOREO
(1942) (Prod: Grovas) (Dir: Raphael J. Sevilla)
Conchita Cintrón (rejoneadora), Pepe Ortiz, Florencio Castelló, Pituka de Foronda, Manuel Arvide, Rafael Icardo, Armando Dávila, Enrique García Alvarez.
A story written by and starring Pepe Ortiz, matador de toros (co-starring Conchita Cintrón, his protagonist), who plays a torero blinded by a serious cornada. The film contains interesting footage from a corrida that took place in - MAS ALLA DE LA MUERTE
(1935) (Prod: Exito) (Dir: Ramón Peón)
Mario Tenorío, Adela Sequeyro, Miguel Arenas.
A film containing excellent taurine footage, including appearances by Juan Estrada and Fermín Rivera. - ME TRAES DE UN
(1952) (Dir: Gilberto Martínez Solares)
Germán Valdés "Tin Tan," Silvia Pinal, Marcelo Chávez "Marcelo," Fernando Soto "Mantequilla."
Another absurd farce starring "Tin Tan." - MI QUIERO CASAR
(1966) (Dir: Julián Soler)
Alberto Vázquez, Angélica María.
A screenplay written by Janet Alcoriza, a flamenco dancer (who danced under the name, Raquel Rojas), telling the story of a young U.S. girl who goes to Mexico and becomes involved in a number of adventures, including one generating something of a "scandal" at a bullfight. This is the second version of the screenplay first filmed and released under the title, "Una gringuita en México." - MI REINO POR UN TORERO
(1943) (Prod: Sonora Films) (Dir: Fernando A. Rivero, A.Victor Mora)
María Antonieta Pons, Carlos Arruza (matador de toros), Consuelo Guerrero de Luna, Miguel Valdés, Florencio Castelló, Luis G. Barreiros, Aurora Segura.
A film starring the young Carlos Arruza as an aspiring torero who must overcome the violent anti-taurine sentiments of his fiance's father. - MUERTE EN LOS CUERNOS
(1953?) (Prod: EMA) . Documentary. - MUJERES QUE TOREAN
(1940) (Dir: Ignacio Rangel)
Conchita Cintron, Juanita Cruz, María Cobidn, Simao da Veiga (Portugese). Documentary. - MUJERES Y TOROS (MUJERES Y TOREROS)
(1939) (Prod: Productora Mexicana) (Dir: Juan José Segura)
Emilio Tuero, María Luisa Zea, Carlos Orellana.
A torero tormented by the ladies -- with a screenplay by Francisco Díaz, a pioneer of Spanish "talkies" and director of taurine documentaries. - MUJERES Y TOREROS (MUJERES Y TOROS)
(1939) (Prod: Produdtora Mexicana) (Dir: Juan José Segura)
Emilio Tuero, María Luisa Zea, Carlos Orellana.
A torero tormented by the ladies -- with a screenplay by Francisco Díaz, a pioneer of Spanish "talkies" and director of taurine documentaries. - EL NIÑO DE LAS MONJAS
(1944) (Prod: Jesús Gil, Sabino Martínez) (Dir: Julio Villarreal)
Luis Procuna (matador de toros), Raquel Rojas, Angel Garasa, Blanca Estela Pavón, Alfredo Varela Jr., Alejandro Cabo, José Pidal, Asunción Casals, Miguel Angel Ferriz, Jorge Landeta.
Mexican cinema's version of the Spanish play starring the torero, Luis Procuna, in the first of his many cinema appearances. - NI SANGRE NI ARENA
(1941) (Prod: Posa Films) (Dir: Alejandro Galindo)
Mario Moreno "Cantinflas," Elvia Salcedo, Susana Guizar, Pedro Armendariz, Alfredo del Diestro, Manuel Inclán, Arturo Soto, Daniel Herrera.
"Cantinflas" stars in the first -- possibly the best -- taurine parody made in - NOVILLERO
(1936) 40m. (Dir: Boris Maicon)
Lorenzo Garza, María Bautista, Agustin Lara, Manuel Noriega.
An absurdly melodramatic short subject redeemed by several interesting taurine sequences, and the big-screen debut of the composer, Agustin Lara. - OPERACION SESENTA Y SIETE (OPERATION 67)
(1966) (Dir: René Cardona)
Amadee Chabot, Elizabeth Campbell, El "Santo," Jorge Rivero, Manuel Capetillo (matador de toros).
An adventure film with taurine scenes featuring Manuel Capetillo. (Video Visa) - OPERATION 67 (OPERACION SESENTA Y SIETE)
(1966) (Dir: René Cardona)
Amadee Chabot, Elizabeth Campbell, El "Santo," Jorge Rivero, Manuel Capetillo (matador de toros).
An adventure f ilm with taurine scenes featuring Manuel Capetillo. (Video Visa) - ¡ORA PONCIANO!
(1936) (Prod: Soria) (Dir: Gabriel Soria)
Jesús Solórzano (Ponciano Díaz), Consuelo Frank, Carlos Villarías, Mercedes Azcárate, Carlos López "Chaflán," Leopoldo Ortín, María Calvo, Maruja Gómez (La Bailarina), Evita Azcárate (niña) , Pepito del Rio (niño).
The famous torero, Jesús Solórzano, playing another famous torero, Ponciano Díaz (one of the most famous of Mexico's taurine stars) , in a typical country melodrama about a rich, pride-filled ganadero who imprisons his daughter in a convent after she falls in love with a torero who, though successful in the plaza, once was a peón on her father's hacienda. - ORO, SANGRE Y SOL
(1925) (Prod: M. C. Torres)
Rafael Gaona (matador de toros), La Goyíta.
A film made following the success of "El último día de un torero," constructed with taurine sequences during the corridas of the enormously popular Rafael Gaona. - PALTLLO VARGAS HEREDIA
(1943) (Dir: Carlos Véjar Jr.)
Jesús Martinez "Palillo," Florencio Castelló, Elisa Berumen, Norma Sacramento.
The farce in which the comic actor, "Palillo," attempted to ride the wave of success generated by his rival, "Cantinflas" in "Ni sangre, ni arena." - LA PASION GITANA (LA LUNA ENAMORADA)
(1945) (Prod: Guillermo Calderón) (Dir: José Díaz Morales)
Joaquin Rodríguez "Cagancho," Virginia Serret, Victor Manuel Mendoza, Angel Garasa, Carmen Amaya, Consuelo Guerrero de Luna.
A film of particular interest to aficionados because of the footage of "Cagancho," and to fans of Carmen Amaya, the famous dancer. - PENITA PENA
(1953) (Dir: Miguel Morayta)
Lola Flores, la flamenca, Luis Aguilar, Antonio Badú, Fernando Soto "Mantequilla," Rafael Llamas (Antoñito Torres).
A film created for Lola Flores, the flamenco star, containing taurine sequences including one in which a novillero is wounded in the plaza at - EL PEQUENO PROSCRITO (THE LITTLEST OUTLAW)
(Mex-USA) (1953) (Dir: Roberto Gabaldón)
Pedro Armendáriz, Joseph Calleia, Rodolfo Acosta, Andrés Veláquez (el niño).
The adventures of a boy in a predictable story -- boy meets horse, boy falls in love with horse, boy steals horse when he learns that it is to be killed, boy loses horse, boy finds horse (under a picador in the plaza at San Miguel de Allende), boy vaults the barrera and rescues horse. - EL PRECIO DE LA GLORIA
(1948) (Prod: Cuauhtémoc) (Dir: Jaime Salvador)
Alicia Ravel, Alfonso Ramírez "El Calesero," Ernesto Alonso, Isabela
A film (unrelated to the successful, 1926, Delores - LA PUÑALADA
(1922)
Antonio Fuentes (matador de toros), Raquel Ruanova, Miguel Wilmer, Dolores G. Rebollo, Elena Ureña, Alberto Morales, Julio Campos, Félix Mercado.
A very early Mexican film about which little is known. It is thought that the torero, Antonio Fuentes appeared in the taurine scenes. - RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ
(1953?) (Prod: EMA). Documentary. - REJONEADORES
(1953) (Prod: EMA). Documentary. - EL RELICARIO
(Mex-Esp) (1924) (Prod: Miguel Contreras Torres)
M. C. Torres, La Goyíta, Pedro Elviro "Pitouto."
Based on the famous paso doble of the same name, this failed cinematic translation follows a typical taurine story: Torero meets girl, falls for girl, throws his capote on the ground for girl to walk on (thus creating the "relic" of the title), and despite his use of -- and expected protection by -- the charmed capote, is wounded and dies in the plaza. - SANGRE EN EL RUEDO (BAJO EL CIELO DE ESPAÑA)
(1952) (Dir: Miguel Contreras Torres)
Gustavo Rojo, Marisa de Leza, Lina Rosales.
The unusual story of a violinist who trades in his bow for an estoque. The new career ends however, and he returns to the violin, after his eye is distracted from a bull by the sight of a lovely woman in the tendido, and he receives a severe leg wound. - SANGRE TORERA
(1949) (Prod: Grovas) (Dir: Joaquín Pardavé)
Carlos Arruza (matador de toros), Olga Jiménez, Augustín Isunza, Chula Prieta, Alfredo Varela, Antonio Bravo, José Baviera, Maruja Grifell, Arturo Soto Rangel.
A film received more warmly by the aficionados for Carlos Arruza's impressive performance in the taurine scenes than for the typically melodramatic story. - SANTA
(1918) (Prod: Ediciones Camús, Germán Campus) (Dir: Luis G. Paredo)
Elena Sánchez Valenzuela (Santa), Alfonso Bussón (the blind Hipólito), Ricardo Beltri (the torero Jarameño), Clementina Pérez Rebolledo (Augustina), Fernando Sobrino (Marcelino Beltrán), Fernando Navarro (Fabián), G. Gómez Scalán (Esteban), Norka Rouskaya, the dancer.
Typical melodramatic story of a girl whose love was abused by a soldier and who ended up traped in a life of prostitution -- more popular for its taurine sequences, however. - SANTA
(1931) (Prod: Nacional Productora de Peliculas) (Dir: Antonio Noriega Hope)
Lupita Tovar, Carlos Orellana, Juan José Martínez Casado, Donald Reed, Antonio R. Frausto, Rosita Arriaga, Raúl de Anda, Jorge Peón, Joaquin Busquets, Feliciano Rueda.
Juan José Martinez Casado plays the matador, Jarameno, who badly mistreats Santa, a bitter cynical whore who was chased from her small town south of Mexico City after being dumped on by her arrogant soldier boyfriend, then rejected by her friends and family. Not a pretty picture. The second cinematic version (first with sound) of this story. The censors cut much of the bordello footage but left intact all the taurine scenes. - SANTA
(1968) (Dir: Emilio Muriel)
Julissa, Enrique Rocha, Julián Pastor, Pilar Pellicer, Carlos East, José Gálvez, Beatriz Baz, Oscar Chávez.
First color version of this ever-popular saga, rewritten to modernize the personalities of the characters. The torero was convincingly played by a young actor, Julián Pastor. (Unicorn Video) - SEDA, SANGRE Y SOL
(1941) (Prod: J. L. Calderón) (Dir: Fernando A. Rivero)
Jorge Negrete, Gloria Marín, Pepe Ortiz, Florencio Castelló, Rafael Icardo, Carmen Amaya. The story of two toreros (the singer, Jorge Negrete, and the matador, Pepe Ortiz) competing for the love of a rejoneadora (Conchita Cintrón doubled for the acrtess, Gloria Marín). Not much of a film for aficionados, as the bulls were "as small as rats." - SILVERIO PEREZ
(1953?) (Prod: EMA). Documentary. - SOL Y SOMBRA
(1945) (Prod: Films Mundiales) (Dir: Rafael E. Portas)
Luis Procuna (matador de toros), Antonio Moreno, Josefina Romagnoli, Florencio Castelló, Juana Alcañiz, Rubén Rojo.
The best commercial film of Luis Procuna's faenas. - SONADORES DE LA GLORIA
(1931) (Dir: Miguel Contreras Torres)
Medea de Novara, Pepet, Paul Elis, Emma Roldán, Alfredo del Diestro.
A film starring a number of persons from the Mexican taurine world. - SOY PURO MEXICANO
(1942) (Prod: Raúl de Anda) (Dir: Emilio Fernández)
Pedro Armendariz, Raquel Rojas, David Silva, Andrés Soler, Charles Rooner, Margarita Cortés, Pedro Vargas, Miguel Inclán.
A rather strange film filled with Italian, German and Japanese spies, Spanish republican partisans, and a bull fought inside a large Mexican house by a torero with a serape. - TIEMPO AL SOL (TIME IN THE SUN)
(1939) 59 m. (Prod: Seton)
A short film featuring David Liceaga pieced together from footage shot by Eisenstein for "Tormenta sobre México." - EL
(1933) (Prod: Films Exchange, S.A.) (Dir: Fernando de Fuentes)
Lupita Gallardo, José Ortiz, Adria Delhort, Antonio R. Frausto.
The film that transformed the famous torero, José Ortiz, into a stellar screen attration -- a melodramatic rural adventure with Ortiz playing a bandit who is eventually killed in a hail of gunfire. The film will likely be a disappointment to those expecting to see Ortiz do more than "act" the leading man. - TIME IN THE SUN (TIEMPO AL SOL)
(1939) 59 m. (Prod: Seton)
A short film pieced together from footage shot by Eisenstein for "Tormenta sobre México," featuring David Liceaga. - EL TORERO
A Cantinflas taurine classic. Black & white. 75 minutes. (LAGUNA FILMS). - TORERO
(1955) (Prod: Manuel Barbachano Ponce) (Dir: Carlos Velo); (Taurine Advisors: Rafael Solana, Arturo Fregoso)
Luis Procuna, Manolete, and Carlos Arruza (matadores de toros).
A classic taurine documentary, the pinacle of Carlos Velo's career, containing footage of some of the greatest figures in 20th century bullfighting. - TORERO POR UN DIA
(1963) (Prod: Sotomayor) (Dir: Gilberto Martínez Solares)
Eulalio González "Piporro."
An unusual film taking a novel look at a torero bufo. "Piporro" plays a widowed father who, though longing to become a serious, successful torero, must perform as a torero bufo to support his young daughter. - UN TORO MI LLAMA
(1968) (Prod: Juan José Padilla) (Miguel Angel)
José Gálvez, Emilio Fernández, Flor Procuna, Germán Robles, Rick Kauffman, Xavier Loyá, Jean Brandt (the torera).
Dubbed in Spanish (primarily) and English the story of a woman who leaves her philandering husband, runs away to Mexico City, meets an aspiring matador, decides to become a matador herself (after being called -- literally -- by a bull, toward which she runs in a see-through blue-nightie dream sequence), and works her way up from a most humble tienta (at least she did some of the passes herself) to Plaza México. This film is FRIGHTENINGLY bad -- may belong on the list of 10 worst taurine films in history. No, on second thought, maybe one of the worst 10 worst of any type. 78 minutes. (THE PUENTE GROUP) - EL TORO NEGRO (EL JUEGO DE LA MUERTE)
(1959) (Prod: Matouk) (Dir: Benito Alazraki)
Fernando Casanova, Teresa Velázquez, Alvaro Ortiz, Roberto Ramírez, Miguel Manzano, Manuel Arvide, Manuel Dondé, Alejandro Parodi, José A. Enriquez (matador de toros).
A film free of the usual sentimentality and "literary baggage" that infuses most taurine cinema. The film follows the career of an artless novillero who pursues a future that eludes him, and who finally must concede that fame will never be his. - TOROS, AMOR Y GLORIA
(1944) (Prod: Raúl de Anda) (Dir: Raúl de Anda)
Lorenzo Garza, Sara García, María Antonieta Pons, Jorge Reyes, Miguel Arenas, Carlos López Moctezuma, Eduardo Arozamena, Francisco Jambrina, Josefina Escobedo, Amanda del Llano, Armando Soto la Marina "Chicote," Alfonso Jiménez.
This film, advertised as "a magnificent cinematic creation containing the most sublime moments in the taurine life of Lorenzo Garza," one of the greatest toreros produced in - LOS TOROS BRAVOS (THE BRAVE BULLS)
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Mel Ferrer, Miroslava, Anthony Quinn, Eugene Iglesias.
Flavorful account of public and private life of a matador, based on the Tom Lea book. Film admirably captures the atmosphere of bullfighting. Some prints now available run 114m. with bullfight footage originally deemed too gruesome for - EL TREN FANTASMA
(1927) (Prod: Gabriel García Moreno) (Dir: Gabriel García Moreno)
Manuel Oropeza, Hortensia
Typical taurine story of the good-hearted suitor who attempts to win his love's affection by appearing in the plaza; the cold-hearted bitch who mocks his efforts and turns to the arms of a less-than-noble (though more fun loving) rival suitor; and the death of the noble suitor after a series of adventures that prove his mettle. - TU Y LAS NUBES
(1956) (Prod: Diana) (Dir: Miguel Morataya)
Lola Flores, Miguel Aceves Mejía.
A film -- whose title is a phrase borrowed from a popular song -- that contains a torero but no faena. - EL ULTIMO
(1915) (Prod: El Globo) (Dir: Rafael Trujillo, Miguel Necoechea)
Rafael Gaona (matador de toros).
Intending to produce a journalistic look at Rafael Gaona's last afternoon in the plaza, Rafael Trujillo managed to produce a hugely sucessful, vivid historical drama. - VIDA DEL TORO DE LIDIA EN LA DEHESA
(1953?) (Prod: EMA) . Documentary. - ¡VIVA JALISCO QUE ES MI TIERRA!
(1960) (Prod: Pereda Films) (Dir: Ramón Pereda)
María Antonieta Pons, Manuel Capetillo (matador de toros), Andrea Palma, Armando Soto la
A musical that includes a great deal of footage of Manuel Capetillo, including a sepia-toned sequence in which Capetillo is seriously gored in Plaza México by the bull, "Camisero." - LA VUELTA AL MUNDO EN OCHENTA DIAS (AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS)
(USA) (1956) (Prod: Michael Todd) (Dir: Michael Anderson)
David Niven, Mario Moreno "Cantinflas," Shirley McLaine
Big-studio "spectacular" including a short appearance by Cantinflas in a comic bullfight. - YO Y MI MARIACHI
(1974) (Prod: Rubén Galindo) (Dir: Rubén Galindo)
Cornelio Reyna, Karina Dupres, Roberto Guzmán.
After a drinking spree, Ernesto López announces that he is giving up drink. During a novillada where he has been hired as a mariachi, Ernesto, feeling it necessary to prove his heroism, jumps into the action and suffers a bone-breaking humiliation that lands him in the hospital. There he falls in love with a young woman who dies tragically, driving him back to the bottle. (Video Visa) - LAS ZAPATILLAS VERDES
(1955) (Prod: Mier y
Evangelina Elizondo, Manuel Capetillo (matador de toros), Delia Magaña, Carlos Riquelme, Nicolás Rodriguez, Julián de Meriche, Nono Arsú, Manuel Sánchez Navarro, Rosa María Montes, Silvia Carrillo, Zoila Zuiñones, Jorge Rachini.
The first "Eastmancolor" taurine film produced in
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