Emilio FernándezFilmography

Born:: March 26, 1903 in El Seco, Coahuila, Mexico
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Known to his devotees as "El Indio" because of his mixed parentage, Emilio Fernandez was not yet out of his teens when his participation as an officer in Mexico's Huerta rebellion earned him a 20-year prison sentence. Escaping to the United States in 1923, Fernandez worked as a Hollywood extra and...Read More

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Salon Mexico

Crew: From Screenplay by

Actors: María Rojo, Blanca Guerra, Edith Gonzalez, Manuel Ojeda, Alberto Estrella

Synopsis: The murder of a taxi dancer and her pimp provide the motivation for this crime melodrama, a remake of Emilio Fernandez's famed Salon Mexico. Set in the '30s, the crime occured in a popular Mexico City dance hall with the bodies being discovered in the dressing room of the dancer, Mercedes. Beside Read More

1994
El Zorro De Jalisco 2

1993
Pirates

Actors: Walter Matthau, Damien Thomas, Richard Pearson, Cris Campion, Charlotte Lewis

Synopsis: Although the title evokes a swashbuckling adventure, Roman Polanski's Pirates tuns out to be a seagoing tale with a bit of a difference. Captain Red (Walter Matthau) runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor (Cris Campion). One day Capt. Red is Read More

7/18/86
El Secuestro de Lola: Lola la Trailera 2

Actors: Rosa Gloria Chagoyan, Rolando Fernandez, Isela Vega, Emilio Fernández, Wolf Rubinskys

Synopsis: As a sequel to the popular Lola la Trailer, an action film about a female trucker, this tale focuses on Lola's (Rosa Gloria Chagoyan) drug-fighting, tough persona. The film is split between James Bond-style adventures that call for derring-do and hookers or homosexuals who provide the fodder for Read More

1986
Greed

Synopsis: Greed was originally released as Treasure of the Amazon, the literal translation of its Spanish-language title. Ostensibly based on a true story, the film stars Stuart Whitman as Gringo, an aging but still virile soldier of fortune. Right now, Gringo is foraging deep into headhunter country in Read More

1985
Observations Under the Volcano

Actors: John Huston, Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Michael Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Director Christian Blackwood filmed this documentary of John Huston directing his actors and camera crew -- and taking time out -- as he created the 1984, award-winning Under the Volcano. Best for film aficionados, Blackwood shows how scenes were developed, run through, and then completed -- and Read More

1984
The Treasure of the Amazon

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Emilio Fernández, Donald Pleasence, Bradford Dillman, John Ireland

Synopsis: An action adventure about a group of fortune hunters who search for gold and jewels in the jungles of South America. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1984
Under the Volcano

Actors: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Katy Jurado

Synopsis: A strange, hallucinatory adaptation of the Malcolm Lowry novel of the same name, John Huston's bleak drama is set during the Mexican "Day of the Dead" ceremony in 1939. Albert Finney stars as Geoffrey Firmin, the booze-besotted former British consul to Cuernevarca, who has cut himself off from his Read More

1984
Lola la Trailera

1983
Les Cineastes Celebres

Actors: Jean-Luc Godard, Wim Wenders, Emilio Fernández, Joseph Losey

1978
Lucky Lady

Actors: Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, Geoffrey Lewis, John Hillerman

Synopsis: During the Prohibition era, Walker (Burt Reynolds) and Kibby (Gene Hackman) run a liquor smuggling operation in Mexico; they team up with Claire (Liza Minnelli), a cabaret entertainer who has an "in" with several big-time nightclub owners. Complications ensue when both men fall in love with Read More

1975
Breakout

Actors: Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland, John Huston, Randy Quaid, Sheree North

Synopsis: The star-director team of Charles Bronson and Tom Gries (Breakheart Pass) combine their efforts again on Breakout. Bronson plays Nick Colton, a reckless pilot who heads to an unnamed South American country, in hopes of rescuing imprisoned Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall). Villain Harris Wagner (John Huston Read More

1975
Zona Roja

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fanny Cano, Armando Silvestre, Tito Junco, Jr., Venetia Vianello, Meche Carreno

Synopsis: Not much is explained in this film in which a poor young man carries away his true love from the bordello in which she has been working. When she is called back into her old life by a telegram, the man follows and successfully kills his pursuers, a large number of police. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

1975
El Rincon de las Virgines

Synopsis: In rural Mexico, during the silent-film era, people who could read were delegated to narrate the films' story cards. In this film, Lucas Lucatero not only performed that chore, but traveled around with a charismatic peddler, Anacieto Morones (Emilio Fernandes) who at some point began to pass Read More

1974
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Actors: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Gig Young, Robert Webber, Helmut Dantine

Synopsis: Wealthy Mexican Emilio Fernandez puts a million-dollar bounty on the head of Alfredo Garcia, who has seduced and knocked up Fernandez's daughter. Trouble is, Alfredo Garcia is already dead and buried. Barkeep Bennie (Warren Oates) is appointed by two of Fernandez's hit men (Robert Webber and Gig Young Read More

1974
La Choca

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This entertaining video tells the story of smugglers who turn on a fellow member and slaughter him. The victim's wife and child are left to survive, but must avenge their loved one's death. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1973
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Actors: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan

Synopsis: A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between cattle rustlings, Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) ignores the advice of comrade-turned-lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) to escape to Mexico, and he winds up in jail in Read More

1973
Political Asylum

Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Cameron Mitchell, Emilio Fernández, Ricardo Blume

Synopsis: In this drama set in Guatemala, the leader of a revolution kills a general and hides out in the Mexican embassy and is protected by a highly principled ambassador who stands face in the face of police pressure. Later the diplomat arranges safe passage out of the country for the rebel, despite the Read More

1972
The Wild Bunch

Actors: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates

Synopsis: "If they move, kill 'em!" Beginning and ending with two of the bloodiest battles in screen history, Sam Peckinpah's classic revisionist Western ruthlessly takes apart the myths of the West. Released in the late '60s discord over Vietnam, in the wake of the controversial Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Read More

1969
El Crepusculo De Un Dios

1968
Un Tipo Deficil Para Matar

1967
Un Dorado de Pancho Villa

Crew: Director

Actors: Emilio Fernández, Sonia Amelio, Maricruz Olivier, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma

Synopsis: Emilio Fernandez directs and stars in this lavishly produced drama about one of Pancho Villa's loyal henchmen. The Major returns home to find his sweetheart has married a local man of wealth and importance. Later, when the husband and wife kill each other in a fit of jealous rage, the Major is Read More

1967
The War Wagon

Actors: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: John Wayne and Kirk Douglas spend half of The War Wagon trying to knock one another off and the other half working shoulder to shoulder. Settling an old score with avaricious mine owner Bruce Cabot, Wayne plans to steal a $500,000 gold shipment from his enemy. Douglas, at first hired by Cabot to Read More

1967
The Appaloosa

Actors: Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer, John Saxon, Emilio Fernández, Alex Montoya

Synopsis: The Appaloosa is one of the more tolerable Marlon Brando westerns, if only because Brando seems to be aspiring to merely entertain rather than offer us a litany of Life Lessons. The title character is a beautiful horse, stolen from buffalo hunter Brando early in the proceedings. The thief is Anjanette Comer Read More

1966
A Covenant with Death

Actors: George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Earl Holliman, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a Mexican American judge must preside over the case of the town ne'er-do-well, who is accused of killing his wife. The film is set during the 1920s in the Southwest. The murderer is convicted and sentenced to hang, but on execution day, he has a fight and kills the Read More

1966
Return of the Magnificent Seven

Actors: Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos, Warren Oates, Jordan Christopher, Claude Akins

Synopsis: The first of two sequels to The Magnificent Seven (1960), this bloody western featured only Yul Brynner from the original picture's all-star cast. Once again, the residents of a pastoral Mexican village become enslaved by a maniacal brute, this time the insane rancher Lorca (Emilio Fernandez), who Read More

1966
The Final Race

1965
The Reward

Actors: Max von Sydow, Yvette Mimieux, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Gilbert Roland, Emilio Fernández

Synopsis: Director Serge Bourguignon coadapted the screenplay for The Reward from a novel by Michael Barrett. Efrem Zimbalist Jr., usually cast on the right side of the law, is here a fugitive from American justice hiding from a murder rap in Mexico. Zimbalist and his girlfriend Yvette Mimieux try to avoid Read More

1965
The Night of the Iguana

Actors: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon, James Ward

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Mexico by John Huston, Night of the Iguana stars Richard Burton as Rev. Shannon, an alcoholic defrocked minister, who scratches out a living as a south-of-the-border tour guide. His latest customers are several American schoolteachers, and he guides their bus to a rundown Read More

1964
Yo, el Valiente

Synopsis: Yo, El Valiente tells the story of a man who travels with a friend to his hometown in order to make peace with his elderly father and his well-to-do brother. His visit kicks up lots of old recriminations and hurts, a situation that is exacerbated when the man falls in love with his brother's Read More

1964
La Bandida

Actors: Maria Felix, Pedro Armendáriz, Emilio Fernández, Ignacio Tarso, Katy Jurado

Synopsis: Overcooked melodrama characterizes this tale set during the Mexican Revolution and starring some of Mexico's most famous, old-time actors (Katy Jurado, María Félix, Emilo Fernández, and Pedro Armendáriz). The story is about as far-fetched as can be imagined. Herrera (Armendáriz) and Gómez Read More

1962
Pueblito

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fernando Soler, Lilia Prado, Columba Dominguez

Synopsis: Volatile, home-grown Mexican director and actor Emilio "El Indio" Fernández guides this simple melodrama through its paces to put across a relatively effective -- though idealistic -- story about social change. Set in a backwater village, the tale begins when an architect arrives in town, sent by Read More

1961
Los Hermanos Del Hierro

Actors: Antonio Aguilar, Julio Aleman, Columba Dominguez

Synopsis: This effective drama about vengeance and its results is loosely based on practices in the Mexican boondocks where the law can be ignored when it comes to seeking revenge. The tale concerns two brothers who decide to avenge their father's death, as would be expected. But this ill-considered Read More

1961
El Impostor

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Well-known Mexican actor and director Emilio Fernandez adapted this political drama from a 1947, tell-it-like-it-is stage play by Rodolfo Usigli. The political contents of the drama are based on real-life personae, beginning with demagogue Cesar Rubio (Pedro Armendariz) and extending to several Read More

1960
The Soldiers of Pancho Villa

Synopsis: Soldiers of Pancho Villa is the English-language title for the Mexican historical epic La Cucaracha. The matchless Maria Felix stars as a patriotic young woman whose admiration for Villa borders on the fanatical. Maria rallies her countrymen to stand by Villa in his fight to wrest control of Read More

1959
La Cucaracha

Actors: Maria Felix, Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Emilio Fernández, Flor Silvestre

Synopsis: Four of the best-known, most popular actors in Mexican cinematic history star in this drama about the Mexican Revolution by equally well-known director Ismael Rodriguez. Maria Felix is Refugio and Dolores Del Rio is Chabela, two women who love the same man and who are both equally dedicated to Read More

1959
Una Cita de Amor

Crew: Director

1958
Nosotros Dos

Crew: Director

Actors: Rossana Podestà, Tito Junco, Sr., Marco Vicario, Julia Caba Alba

Synopsis: Maverick Mexican filmmaker Emilio Fernandez completed Nosotros Dos (We Two) in 1954. Thanks to the legal and political volatility of the director, however, the film was not released until 1957. Rosanna Podesta (on the verge of her Helen of Troy debacle) stars as a young woman trapped in the middle Read More

1957
Reportaje

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Mexican comedy Reportaje follows the wacky adventures that ensue when a man offers a large reward to the journalist that can uncover the best news story that occurs during New Year's Eve. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1953
La Red

Crew: Director

Actors: Rossana Podestà, Crox Alvarado, Armando Silvestre

Synopsis: The title of this grim Emilio Fernandez-directed character study translates to The Net. On the lam from the police, Antonio (Crox Alvaredo) and Jose Luis (Armando Sylvestre) find refuge in a friendly seaside village. The two fugitives set up housekeeping with their mutual girlfriend Rossana (Rossana Podesta Read More

1953
Quartier Interdit

Crew: Director

Actors: Ninon Sevilla, Tito Junco, Sr., Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta, Domingo Soler

Synopsis: One of the least-known films of Mexican director Emilio Fernandez, Quartier Interdit was given a limited U.S. release as Hell's Kitchen. As in most of Fernandez's efforts, the characters are entrapped in the tentacles of Cruel Fate. The central character is an infant, born out of wedlock to the Read More

1952
Acapulco

Crew: Director

1951
The Torch

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Walter Reed, Julio Villareal

Synopsis: The Torch was originally released in Mexico as La Malquerida. It also bore several other titles, including Duelo en las Montanas, Del Odio Nacio el Amor and The Beloved. By any name, this is the story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general (Pedro Armendariz) who develops a passion for the Read More

1950
Victims of Sin

Crew: Director

1950
La Malquerida

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has Read More

1949
Pueblerina

Crew: Director

Actors: Roberto Cañedo, Columba Dominguez, Manuel Donde, Luis Aceves Castaneda, Ismael Perez

Synopsis: Emilio Fernandez, the politically volatile "bad boy" of Mexican filmmakers, served as director of Pueblerina (Town Tale). The hero, played by Roberto Canedo, is framed for murder and sentenced to a dozen years in jail (Fernandez himself escaped from a 20-year sentence for revolutionary activities Read More

1949
John Steinbeck's the Pearl

Crew: Director

1948
Maclovia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1948
La Perla

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pedro Armendáriz, Maria Elena Marques, Fernando Wagner, Charles Rooner, Alfonso Bedoya

Synopsis: Gabriel Figueroa's evocative photography makes the Mexican-American co-production The Pearl seem a more significant piece of filmmaking than it really is. Based on John Steinbeck's short novel, The Pearl is the tragic fable of a simple Mexican fisherman (Pedro Armendariz) who finds a valuable Read More

1948
The Fugitive

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, J. Carrol Naish, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: The Fugitive was shot on location in Mexico by that country's premiere cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa. Henry Fonda plays a Christ-like priest in an unnamed Latin-American country where religion has been outlawed. Though incognito in a backwater village, Fonda cannot help but seem more spiritual Read More

1948
Salon Mexico

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1948
Rio Escondido

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maria Felix, Fernando Fernandez, Domingo Soler, Agustin Isunza

Synopsis: Filmed in 1947, Emilio Fernandez' Hidden River (originally Rio Escondido) was distributed in the U.S. three years later. The matchless Maria Felix stars as Rosaura, an idealistic Mexican schoolteacher who does her best to educate the illiterate Indians in her native land. Rosaura is opposed by Read More

1947
Pepita Jimenez

Crew: Director

1946
Enamorada

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maria Felix, Pedro Armendáriz, Fernando Fernandez

Synopsis: Enamorada, Mexican filmmaker Emilio Fernandez' only 1946 effort, was released in the US early the following year. The film's English-language title is A Girl in Love, the girl in question being the ravishing Maria Felix. Set during the Mexican revolution, the story concerns the rocky relationship Read More

1946
Las Abandonadas

Crew: Director

Actors: Pedro Armendáriz, Dolores Del Rio

Synopsis: Mexican helmer Emilio Fernandez's unusual period drama Las Abandonadas (The Abandoned) unfurls in Mexico at the turn of the 20th century, where a young bride-to-be is suddenly jilted by her chauvinistic fiancé. Bereft of a partner, she must support herself and her son and take on the difficulties Read More

1945
Bugambilia

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Actress Dolores del Rio teams up with one of her frequent directors, Emilio Fernández, for the melodrama Bugambilia. She stars as the spoiled-rotten daughter of a local miner, who falls blindly into a self-destructive romance with a local gentleman (Pedro Armendariz - little realizing that Read More

1944
Maria Candelaria

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Beatriz Ramos, Miguel Inclan

Synopsis: The title character is a young woman (Dolores DelRio) who is shunned by local townsfolk because her mother once posed naked for an artist and was stoned to death because of the incident. She must consider the consequences while making a similar choice. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1944
El Fanfarron

1943
Flor Silvestre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Emilio Fernández, Miguel Angel Ferriz

Synopsis: Completed before his immensely successful Maria Candelaria, Emilio Fernandez' Flor Sylvestre was released second in the US-and not until two years after its initial Mexican release. Also known as Wildflower, the film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share Read More

1943
Soy Puro Mexicano

Crew: Director

Actors: Pedro Armendáriz, Raquel Rojas, David Silva, Charles Rooner, Andres Solér

Synopsis: Filmmaker Emilio Fernandez' second directorial effort was the thrill-a-minute Soy Puro Mexicano (I'm a Mexican Too) Pedro Armendariz stars as a fugitive bandit chieftain whose long-dormant patriotism is aroused when Mexico enters WWII. Hiding from the authorities in a fancy hacienda, Armendariz Read More

1943
La Isla de la Pasion

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emilio Fernández, David Silva, Isabela Corona, Miguel Angel Ferriz

Synopsis: Passion Island (La Isla de Passion) represented the first directorial effort of legendary Mexican filmmaker-patriot Emilio Fernandez. Taking place over a period of several years, this is the story of Clipperton Island, more popularly known to Mexicans as Passion Island. Annexed in 1909, the island Read More

1941
Los De Abajo Con La Division del Norte

1940
Los De Abajo

Synopsis: In this historical drama from Mexico, Demetrio is a rancher whose home is destroyed by local authorities. Filled with rage, Demetrio sets out to join the revolutionary army of Pancho Villa, and soon takes part in an attack on the federales. Wounded in battle, Demetrio is nursed back to health by Read More

1940
El Charro Negro

1940
El Zorro De Jalisco

1940
Con Los Dorados de Villa

1939
Los de Abajo

1939
El Traidor

Actors: Jose Bohr, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton, René Cardona, Sr.

Synopsis: The stunningly beautiful Lupita Tovar stars in the Mexican drama El Traidor. The storyline, however, is carried by Jose Bohr, who also wrote and directed. Bohr plays a crusading crime fighter, dedicated to bring a gang of dope peddlers to justice. Somewhere among Bohr's circle of friends is a Read More

1938
Abnegacion

Crew: First Assistant Director

1938
Aqui Llego El Valenton

1938
Juan Sin Miedo

1938
Adios Nicanor

Crew: Screenwriter

1937
Almas Rebeldes

1937
Alla En El Rancho Grande

Actors: Tito Guizar, Esther Fernandez, René Cardona, Sr., Lorenzo Barcelata, Emma Roldan

Synopsis: Having begun his directorial career in 1932, Fernando De Fuentes had four years' experience -- and ten pictures -- under his belt when he helmed the Tito Guizar musical vehicle Alla en el Rancho Grande. The film has been hailed by historians as the vanguard of the Mexican "Charro"-movie genre Read More

1936
Corazon Bandolero

1934
Cruz Diablo

1934
Western Code

Actors: Tim McCoy, Nora Lane, Wheeler Oakman, Mischa Auer

Synopsis: An average entry in Columbia Pictures' Tim McCoy Western series, The Western Code features perennial Bad Guy Wheeler Oakman as Nick Grindle, a crooked saloon keeper who marries lovely Polly Loomis' mother for her money. The woman dies leaving everything to Grindle while Polly (Nora Lane) and her Read More

1932
The Land of Missing Men

Actors: Bob Steele, Caryl Lincoln, Al Jennings

Synopsis: The fourth of eight westerns made by diminutive Bob Steele for poverty row's Tiffany Productions, The Land of Missing Men is a sturdy little oater which contains a hair-rising scene where Steele and sidekick Al St. John enter a saloon littered with corpses! The remainder of the film is not quite Read More

1930
Oklahoma Cyclone

Synopsis: Disguising himself as a bandit, diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele infiltrates the gang who abducted his father, the sheriff. The second of eight Steele Westerns produced by Trem Carr for Tiffany release, this minor Western included three songs crooned by a star not necessarily known for any great Read More

1930
La Sangre Enemiga
Duelo En El Dorado

Synopsis: The Mexican western Duelo en el Dorado was lensed sometime in the late 1960s. Luis Aguilar and Emilio Fernandez (yes, the same Emilio Fernandez who shot and killed a critic who'd carped about one of the films he'd directed) play antagonists who spend the film's running time at each other's Read More
Cuando Corrio El Alazan
La Conquista Del Dorado

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