Juan Orol

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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Sketch-comedy collection, heavy on the 'sketchy'.

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Two street gangs vie for primacy, which will give them control of drug smuggling and stolen jewelry.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tony Carpio becomes a dangerous criminal and gains power by fixing boxing matches while seeking revenge on the ones who sent him to serve 5 years in jail, this includes his former lover, the rapacious Marbella.

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A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".

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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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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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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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Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him.

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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 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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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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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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A dangerous gangster, called Álvaro Rambal, is captured by the police. Hoping to be forgiven before his execution, he tells the story of his life to his wife, going from his tragic childhood to the rise and fall of his criminal empire.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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The daughters of the sun are women who meet the erotic needs of pearl fishermen on the island of Samoa. Marcia is the only one of these women who chooses to whom she gives her sensual pleasures. She rejects Mario, the richest man on the island, and falls for his son, Cándido. After he finds out, Mario seeks to jeopardize Marcia by all means to force her to make her his.

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A young woman has to move forward after the death of her mother and the abuse of her stepfather. She decides to be the mistress of a number of rich men. If she were to fall in love, she would keep quiet about her past. But the father of the man she falls for was one of her former lovers.

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A young woman gets in trouble for wanting to deny her ethnic ancestry.

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Rosita is a young Puerto Rican woman, beautiful but for her scarred face, which she views as a curse. She ignores the men who serenade her nightly for a manipulative man who pursues her for the money she inherited.

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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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Thaimí, a beautiful and talented fisherman's daughter, becomes a celebrated night club singer as she is torn by the love of two men who happen to be brothers.

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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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A medical researcher arrives at a cursed island and falls in love with an indigenous priestess.

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A waitress helps a ruined composer. When he triumphs and after a surgery he decides to marry her.

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Tony Carpio becomes a dangerous criminal and gains power by fixing boxing matches while seeking revenge on the ones who sent him to serve 5 years in jail, this includes his former lover, the rapacious Marbella.

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A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death".

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An exuberant dancer decides to change her lifestyle after meeting a millionaire.

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A fugitive hides from justice among smugglers in the deep jungle of an exotic island, but things become complicated when he falls in love with a local cabaret dancer.

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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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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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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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After divorcing her cheating husband, a newly single still and beautiful woman, (played by Actress Rosa Carmina), travels to Acapulco. She soon becomes the center of attention and spoiled for choice when she finds herself wooed by no less than four handsome suitors, three of whom are very wealthy and prominent men. Initially torn between her head and her heart, but mindful of past mistakes, Carmina's character chooses love over money and picks a humble and hard-working waiter. Directed by Juan Orol, (Carmina's soon-to-be ex-husband in real-life), this drama features the long, drawn-out scenes and shadowy film noir techniques which he became well- known for.

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Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him.

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Alma leaves Panama to go live with her aunt Antonia and with Manuel, her husband. There she meets Julio, who tries to woo her.

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The plot revolves around Pancho Domínguez, alias “El Charro del Arrabal” (José Pulido), a former cattle rustler turned gangster who controls an extortion racket in the city. The story intensifies when he becomes involved in a turbulent romance with the rumbera Rosa (Rosa Carmina) and clashes with political and criminal rivals.

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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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Rolando, a millionare, travels to a remote island and meets the young and tough Tania, a local woman with great dancing skills. He falls in love with her and takes the girl to Mexico, but their relationship gets awry when Tania cheats on him with another man.

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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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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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In a small tropical town, two sisters fight over the love of a young man named José. Fabiola is a noble woman but Sandra will do anything to get him, including witchcraft.

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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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Power struggles among the owners of a cigar factory;meanwhile, a society babe and a factory girl compete over the youngest of the executives.

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