Carlos OrellanaFilmography

Occupation:
Actor, Director, Screenwriter
  • Chiquitto Pero Picoso

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: This Mexican film parodies wrestling movies. In this one a wrestler, in the style of Harold Lloyd, takes hormone injections created by the mad Dr. Herrera, and becomes invincible. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1959
  • Dos Corazones y un Cielo

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Lalo "Piporro" Gonzalez, Rosa de Castillo, Carlos Orellana, Rosa Elena Durgel

    Synopsis: A melodramatic musical from beginning to end, this song-filled story of romance in all its glory may rely too much on singing and not enough on ringing dialogue or a distracting travelog, or a nasty demagogue to alleviate its melodies and their mundanities. Poor poetics aside, this oft-heard tale Read More

    1959
  • Tizoc

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Pedro Infante, Sr., Maria Felix, Andres Solér, Carlos Orellana, Miguel Arenas

    Synopsis: Mexico's contribution to the 1957 Berlin Film Festival was the Color-Cinemascope star vehicle Tizos. The ever-popular Maria Felix stars as a white woman who enters into a romance with a Mexican Indian, played by singing star Pedro Infante (who died shortly after the film's completion). The racial Read More

    1957
  • El Castillo de los Monstruos

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In this Mexican horror comedy begins when a naive couple is forced to stay overnight in a dark and scary castle after their car breaks down. They get no sleep as they suffer a barrage of monsters including a gorilla, a werewolf, a Frankenstein clone, a vampire, a mummy, and even a cousin of the Read More

    1957
  • Los Platillos Voladores

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In this tuneful Mexican comedy, an inventor and his girl friend have created a flying race car. Hoping to use it to win the big race and therefore, earn enough money to finally marry, they take off. Unfortunately, they crash in a remote village. The terrified villagers take the couple for Martians Read More

    1955
  • Tu y las Nubes

    Synopsis: The drama Tu y las Nubes concerns a very attractive man and woman who become deeply involved with one another, but one day learn secrets about ach other that alter their once loving relationship forever. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

    1955
  • Two Careful Fellows

    Actors: Jorge Negrete, Pedro Infante, Sr.

    Synopsis: Dos Tippos de Cuidado (Two Careful Fellows) teams a pair of very popular Mexican musical stars. Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante play a couple of wandering vagabonds who show up at a ranch. Here they try to avoid getting involved with the local female population, but it's a losing battle. Among the Read More

    1952
  • Enrédate y verás

    Crew: Director

    1948
  • 1947
  • La Barca de Oro

    Actors: Pedro Infante, Sr., Sofia Alvarez

    Synopsis: A woman striving to gain the respect of her male siblings and elders takes on a more manly persona, only to find that it has further-reaching repercussions than she ever expected in this vintage Mexican comedy starring Pedro Infante. Upon running into a childhood friend whom she hadn't seen in Read More

    1947
  • Cuando Los Hijos Pecan

    Synopsis: This fictional story covers a woman who has a past full of questions and her marital problems with her clean cut husband. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1947
  • Secreto Eterno

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Marina Tamayo, Carlos Orellana, David Silva, Matilde Palou, Miguel Angel Ferriz

    Synopsis: Secreto Eterno (The Eternal Secret) stars Marina Tamayo as Dolores, the new wife of widower Don Justo (Carlos Orellana). Insanely jealous of Dolores, Don Justo's two grown daughters conspire to have her arrested on a murder charge. Years later, the guilty party confesses, and Dolores is released. Read More

    1944
  • Arriba Las Mujeres

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Mexican screen comic Pedro Infante, Sr. stars in Carlos Orellana's 1943 domestic farce Arriba Las Mujeres as Chuy, a fellow baffled and disgruntled when his fiancée returns from a vacation spouting off progressive feminist ideals. Horrified, he makes a series of attempts to subjugate her by Read More

    1943
  • 1941
  • El Signo De La Muerte

    Synopsis: El Signo de la Muerte stars the famous Mexican comedian Cantinflas as a mild mannered man who ends up running with a group of bad guys who kill women for fun. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

    1939
  • 1939
  • 1937
  • Santa

    Actors: Carlos Orellana, Mimi Derba, Lupita Tovar

    Synopsis: Santa was based on the incredibly popular novel by Mexican author Don Federico Gamboa. So beloved was the original novel that audiences were predisposed to adore the film, whether it was any good or not. The story concerns the romantic travails of the homely pianist (Carlos Orellana) of a seedy Read More

    1932

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