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René Cardona

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René Cardona (October 8, 1905 – April 25, 1988) was a Mexican director, actor, producer, screenwriter, and film editor, who was prominent during part of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. René Cardona was born in Havana, Cuba, on October 8, 1905, and began medical school in Cuba, but due to the political problems of the island, he and his family moved to New York City in 1926, where he continued his studies. Economic circumstances experienced by his family caused him to leave his studies. He befriended famous actor Rodolfo Valentino and obtained work as an extra in several films, until 1929 when he produced, wrote, directed and starred in the first Spanish-language film made in Hollywood, Sombras habaneras (Havana Shadows). He also had the opportunity to work in various positions in the film industry such as second assistant, technical advisor and first assistant director, and learned film and lighting technique. In 1932, he moved to Mexico, where he debuted as an actor and met Julieta Zacarías, sister of the director Miguel Zacarías, and soon after married her. His wife's support would be central to his career in Mexican cinema, in films Mano a mano (1932) directed by Ramón Peón and Sobre las olas (1932) directed by Zacarías. At this early stage as an actor, Cardona participated in three key Mexican films Marihuana (1936), El baúl macabro (1936) and Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936), which officially inaugurate the golden age of Mexican cinema and made stars of its protagonists: Esther Fernández, Tito Guízar, and Cardona.

09-10-1905

Birthday

Libra

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

98

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Рене Кардона, Рене Кардона-старший, Рене Кардона-ст., René Cardona Andre

Also known as (male)

Havana, Cuba

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

98 Works

producer

1 Works

director

169 Works

writer

24 Works

other

1 Works

Viva la risa II

Viva la risa II

Mexican feature film
5.0

Year:

1989

Las Limpias

Las Limpias

5.2

Year:

1987

Yo el ejecutor

Yo el ejecutor

A retired mercenary known as 'The Executioner', is forced to take one more case especially when his girlfriend is kidnapped and raped, he then wages a one-man war against the mob with his execution style.
4.7

Year:

1987

La Casa Que Arde de Noche

La Casa Que Arde de Noche

A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
5.1

Year:

1985

Siempre en domingo

Siempre en domingo

Behind the scenes at a popular TV variety show, highly fictionalized.
4.2

Year:

1984

La banda de la sotana negra

La banda de la sotana negra

Three punk cholos in Tijuana steal cassocks from a church so they can do crimes better.
5.7

Year:

1983

The Fury of the Karate Experts

The Fury of the Karate Experts

An evil priestess and her twin sister battle for control of a powerful crystal.
5.0

Year:

1982

Savage Summer

Savage Summer

The legend of their beach days, plus nights of sex.
4.8

Year:

1980

Crónica roja

Crónica roja

After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.
5.2

Year:

1979

Cyclone

Cyclone

An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.
5.0

Year:

1978

The Children of Sanchez

The Children of Sanchez

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
5.7

Year:

1978

Raza de viboras

Raza de viboras

Mentally-ill eldest son creates havoc within an old-money farming family.
4.0

Year:

1978

Tempestad

Tempestad

5.0

Year:

1978

La casta divina

La casta divina

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
6.6

Year:

1977

Prisión de mujeres

Prisión de mujeres

'Prisión de Mujeres' is a film by Fernando A. Rivero that narrates a harsh reality: the strength of women in a prison, how they lose their dignity and do not stop for anything.
5.2

Year:

1977

Fantastic Voyage in a Baloon

Fantastic Voyage in a Baloon

1862. Commodore Sir Francis and inventor Douglas initiated on behalf of the Royal Society of London Geography of a balloon ride under the command of Dr. Ferguson, who plans to cross Africa from east to west. But to accomplish this feat will have to overcome numerous adventures in which their lives are at serious risk.
5.6

Year:

1975

El pequeño Robin Hood

El pequeño Robin Hood

Directed by René Cardona, and written by René Cardona Jr., «El Pequeño Robin Hood» is a 1975 Adventure/Comedy/Drama/Family film . René Cardona III and Patricia Aspíllaga are starring, alongside René Cardona, Arturo Cobo, Jorge Russek and Alfredo Wally Barrón.
5.0

Year:

1975

La disputa

La disputa

The wife of a philandering husband tries to engineer a situation in which she can photograph him in a compromising position in order to file for divorce. Meanwhile, subplots.
5.0

Year:

1974

The Vengeance of the Crying Woman

The Vengeance of the Crying Woman

Santo and Mantequilla Nápoles team up to end the curse of La Llorona by getting ahold of a special medallion. Unfortunately, La Llorona escapes in the process.
5.5

Year:

1974

Guns and Guts

Guns and Guts

An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help them on their mission. However, things become complicated when the man they all seek to kill has risen to become a wealthy sheriff with a small army of gunmen at his disposal.
5.1

Year:

1974

Zindy, the Swamp Boy

Zindy, the Swamp Boy

The story is about a fugitive who lives apart from society in a jungle area with the company of his grandson
5.0

Year:

1973

Masajista de señoras

Masajista de señoras

This fun comedy presents two masseurs who, by getting a job, dress up as women and thus live comic adventures.
5.0

Year:

1973

Peluquero de señoras

Peluquero de señoras

Beauty-products czar can't attend an important industry function, so he hires a look-alike as a stand-in. The body double will have to learn to behave like a massive queen for the imposture to work...
5.0

Year:

1973

Manuel Saldivar, el texano

Manuel Saldivar, el texano

Cowboy-justice dude has to figure out who the masterminds are behind a string of murders.
5.0

Year:

1972

Santo vs. the Head Hunters

Santo vs. the Head Hunters

Santo battles a mad scientist reviving the dead
5.2

Year:

1971

Chanoc en las garras de las fieras

Chanoc en las garras de las fieras

Comic-book adaptation: Tarzan-type in the Mexican outback.
4.5

Year:

1970

La hermana Trinquete

La hermana Trinquete

Career-thief hides from the police by joining a convent.
5.5

Year:

1970

El deseo llega de noche

El deseo llega de noche

Prison colony on an island: the staff Doctor has some neuroses he's trying to overcome, and his "weakness" makes him vulnerable to exploitation by a sociopathic prisoner.
3.5

Year:

1969

El día de la boda

El día de la boda

The love affairs of two couples, modern parents a couple of troubled teens.
5.0

Year:

1968

Stranger in the House

Stranger in the House

An American serial killer, known for his handiwork with a straight razor, manages to escape while being transported in Mexico and hides out inside a publisher's home, where he claims many more victims.
6.1

Year:

1968

Operación carambola

Operación carambola

Two clumsy and absent-minded spies (Capulina and Chespirito) are hired to save the world from a nuclear attack.
6.5

Year:

1968

Un novio para dos hermanas

Un novio para dos hermanas

Pili and uncle Angel travel to Mexico to see Mili dancing at her debut in a theater in the capital. When Mili finds out the bad economic situation of her uncle, she decides to seek work. Meanwhile, Pili works in a department store and meets Rodolfo, the grandson of Mrs. Caceres, owner of the store, which she takes for the chauffeur of the lady. In turn, Ms. Caceres hires Mili to dance at her party, where she meets and falls for Rodolfo. Rodolfo, who does not know of the existence of a twin sister, is convinced that the girl in the party is Pili. And the sisters do not know they are in love with the same man, which will lead to an unexpected conflict.
7.3

Year:

1967

La leyenda del bandido

La leyenda del bandido

Western with romance subplot.
5.0

Year:

1967

El matrimonio es como el demonio

El matrimonio es como el demonio

The story of a Playboy bachelor who does not know the good that is, until he is married. Slowly, the man discovers that having a woman is not easy, but sometimes ... being faithful recomended. After sympathetic experiences and funny situations, he realizes that there are two uncorrectable errors committed by the man in your life: Being born and married!
6.0

Year:

1967

The Diabolical Duchess

The Diabolical Duchess

A rare and impossible to find Mexican adventure / fantasy / horror.
5.0

Year:

1964

Dos caballeros de espada

Dos caballeros de espada

Sixteenth century swordsmen adventure.
5.0

Year:

1964

El revólver sangriento

El revólver sangriento

Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
5.2

Year:

1964

Aventuras de las hermanas X

Aventuras de las hermanas X

Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.
5.7

Year:

1963

La Bandida

La Bandida

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to implement land reforms, two former revolutionaries are pitted against each other for the love of the same woman.
4.6

Year:

1963

The Brainiac

The Brainiac

In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants
5.4

Year:

1962

Los encapuchados del infierno

Los encapuchados del infierno

Husband and wife team of hooded avengers, First of three in series.
5.0

Year:

1962

Juana Gallo

Juana Gallo

Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic entanglements.
6.5

Year:

1961

La ley del más rápido

La ley del más rápido

Young gunslinger gets his hero on. #2 in a series ("El Puma.")
5.0

Year:

1959

El puma

El puma

Son of a ranching family returns home after studying in the city for a law degree. He sides with the peons in a labor dispute and his father disowns him; he sets up a law office in another town. First of three movies in a masked-avenger series.
5.3

Year:

1959

Night Dance Hall

Night Dance Hall

Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs during her adolescent years. As a result of her family situation, Martine runs away from home and gets involved with a group of teens and young adults from the wrong side of the moral tracks.
0.0

Year:

1959

Milagros de San Martín de Porres

Milagros de San Martín de Porres

Mexican feature film
5.0

Year:

1959

Girl Merchants

Girl Merchants

A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
1.0

Year:

1957

La faraona

La faraona

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.
3.5

Year:

1956

Los hijos de Rancho Grande

Los hijos de Rancho Grande

Sequel to Alla en el Rancho Grande, twenty years later -- sons and daughters of the original characters go through a courtship melodrama of their own.
5.0

Year:

1956

¡Que seas feliz!

¡Que seas feliz!

Career criminal hooks up with famous singer because she looks like a long-term meal ticket.
5.0

Year:

1956

A los cuatro vientos

A los cuatro vientos

Career-biography of a fictional ranchera singer, played by Rosita Quintana.
5.5

Year:

1955

As negro

As negro

Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
5.3

Year:

1954

Mulata

Mulata

In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow up together. She is the daughter of a white man who died in a shipwreck and of a black laundress of African origin. Over the years, Mateo falls for Caridad, but she doesn't love him back because she has fallen for a Mexican captain, Martin (Pedro Armendáriz), who she happened to meet at the port. The captain also fell in love with Caridad and proposes that they live together and she accepts. Caridad works in a cabaret in the port and the owner, Guevara (René Cardona), feels an attraction for the girl, and in a moment of jealousy, tries to kill Martin. Martin falls into financial trouble and has to mortgage his boat to Guevara. When Martin returns to Veracruz, Mexico, Guevara feels that he's the new owner of Caridad.
4.4

Year:

1954

Nuevo amanecer

Nuevo amanecer

Mexican feature film
5.0

Year:

1954

La desconocida

La desconocida

5.0

Year:

1954

The Three Perfect Married

The Three Perfect Married

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
4.4

Year:

1953

El genial Detective Peter Pérez

El genial Detective Peter Pérez

Bumbling detective solves a murder on board a train.
5.5

Year:

1952

La vorágine: abismos de amor

La vorágine: abismos de amor

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.
5.3

Year:

1949

Cartas Marcadas

Cartas Marcadas

A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.
6.0

Year:

1948

Pito Pérez se va de bracero

Pito Pérez se va de bracero

Alcoholic hobo drifts across the border and has a series of random adventures.
5.0

Year:

1948

Soledad

Soledad

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.
5.0

Year:

1947

La barca de oro

La barca de oro

Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.
6.0

Year:

1947

Si me han de matar mañana

Si me han de matar mañana

Romantic triangle during the Mexican Revolution.
5.0

Year:

1947

¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!

¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!

Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
5.0

Year:

1946

Los buitres sobre el tejado

Los buitres sobre el tejado

Mexican movie
5.0

Year:

1946

El abanico de Lady Windermere

El abanico de Lady Windermere

A woman with a dubious reputation causes problems in an aristocratic marriage.
5.0

Year:

1944

Divorciadas

Divorciadas

Three newly unmarried women room together, start a business, share the ups and downs of their love lives
5.0

Year:

1943

Ave sin nido

Ave sin nido

Husband, sterile wife, fertile mistress, daughter.
5.0

Year:

1943

The Spirit's Canyon

The Spirit's Canyon

The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
5.8

Year:

1943

Jesusita en Chihuahua

Jesusita en Chihuahua

Ranchera comedy.
5.0

Year:

1942

El conde de Montecristo

El conde de Montecristo

Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
5.3

Year:

1942

La casa del rencor

La casa del rencor

A 1941 film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares.
5.0

Year:

1941

El secreto del sacerdote

El secreto del sacerdote

Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.
5.5

Year:

1941

Con su amable permiso

Con su amable permiso

Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.
5.0

Year:

1940

Mala yerba

Mala yerba

Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.
4.5

Year:

1940

La cuna vacía

La cuna vacía

Male half of a young couple gets distracted from his family duties and considers abandoning his wife and daughter.
4.2

Year:

1938

Don Juan Tenorio

Don Juan Tenorio

Classic legend of a playboy meeting supernatural comeuppance.
4.4

Year:

1937

Allá en el Rancho Grande

Allá en el Rancho Grande

Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
5.3

Year:

1936

El calvario de una esposa

El calvario de una esposa

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
5.0

Year:

1936

The Macabre Trunk

The Macabre Trunk

A crazed scientist tries to keep his terminally ill wife alive by transfusing into her the blood of young women he murders.
5.4

Year:

1936

Malditas sean las mujeres

Malditas sean las mujeres

A tragicomic piece based on a novella by Manuel Ibo Alfaro.
5.0

Year:

1936

Marihuana El Monstruo Verde

Marihuana El Monstruo Verde

Policeman goes undercover to bust drug-smuggling ring.
5.0

Year:

1936

Hand to Hand

Hand to Hand

A 1932 film.
5.0

Year:

1932

Carne de Cabaret

Carne de Cabaret

This is the Spanish-language version of Ten Cents a Dance (1931), shot concurrently with a different cast but the same director, Christy Cabanne (as "Wiliam Cabana"), and also Mexican director Eduardo Arozamena.
2.0

Year:

1931

When Love Laughs

When Love Laughs

José Mojica plays a singing vacquero who stops off in la cantina to have muchas cervezas with los muchachos. While José is all beered up, he boasts that he can tame the wild mare -- a horse no man can ride -- owned by local ranchero Don Alvarado (a stolid performance by Carlos Villarias). While he's in the neighbourhood, José also boasts that he can tame the Don's daughter, a Mexican spitfire played by Mona Maris.
0.0

Year:

1930

Common Clay

Common Clay

A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.
0.0

Year:

1930