Adalberto Martínez
Birthday: 1916-01-25
Place of Birth: Mexico
Biography: Adalberto Martínez Chávez, better known in the entertainment world as Resortes was a renowned Mexican actor. Known primarily for his talent as a comedian, Resortes was also an accomplished dancer. His dancing defied gravity itself. He is believed to be, as seen in several of his movies, the creator of the "walking backwards" dance steps, which many years later became known as "The Moonwalk" and popularized by Michael Jackson. Resortes, who began his career as a member of a circus, made his motion picture debut in 1946. He participated in more than 50 Mexican movies throughout his career, and he also participated in many television series. Many of his best films he made were El Rey de México (The King of Mexico), El Cartero del Barrio, Al Son del Mambo (To the Mambo's Rhythm) and El Futbolista Fenómeno (The Phenomenal Soccer Player). But one of his most famous movies was La Niña de la Mochila Azul (The Girl With the Blue Back Pack). That movie also had a sequel, La Niña de la Mochila Azul 2 (The Girl With the Blue Back Pack 2). Those two movies in particular became two of the largest teen movie hits in Mexican movie history and helped Resortes gain familiarity among the younger generations during the 1980s Resortes was hospitalized with emphysema on April 3, 2003 and died on April 4. His nephew is the international artist Alex Martinez.
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D.F./Distrito Federal
Anthology film, six little anecdotes about life in the big city....
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La presidenta municipal
La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo....
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Yo quiero ser artista
The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director...
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El luchador fenómeno
Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a let...
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The Laughter Of The City
The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pri...
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Chiquidracula
An alcoholic grandfather is seriously ill. His doctor suggests that experiencing a bad scare could c...
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A Fuego Lento
In the film "A fuego lento," Guadalupe Palma, a dancer and part-time prostitute, finds herself at th...
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Miracles
Jean and Roger decide to divorce after 10 years, but 12 hours later, they're together again by accid...
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Mamá, soy Paquito
Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a ve...
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They Say I'm a Communist
A worker overwhelmed by the economic crisis and the cost of living is accidentally propaganda of a p...
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Dance my king!
Lower-middle-class ligger rescues a girl from her abusive father and practices for a high-profile da...
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The Girl with the Blue Backpack
In a fishermen's town in Texas, the kids Amy and Raul are close friends. Andrew, uncle and guardian ...
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¡Viva la juventud!
Movie based on the classic student football competition between UNAM pumas and the Polytechnic donke...
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Del suelo no paso
Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels....
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To the Sound of the Mambo
A fun musical comedy style of the 50s where the infectious rhythm of the son and the mambo, led by t...
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El amor no es negocio
Brother and sister bumpkins move to the big city, where they fall into the orbit of a gigolo-pimp ty...
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Peter Knife
The story of the coolest, street-smart hustler ever to walk the streets of Mexico City, based on the...
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Pilotos de la muerte
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechan...
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The Bricklayers
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from thing...
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Slum
Reworking of City Lights -- poor schmoe busts his hump to restore a blind woman's sight......
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Las delicias del poder
A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister...
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Me gustan todas
Wealthy Mexican tourist gets swindled by a Cuban woman pretending to be his daughter from a previous...
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The King of México
A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México....
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Comedians of the League
The guy that runs the concession stand at a vaudeville theatre gets tangled up with a gang of thieve...
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Asesinos, S.A.
Incompetent clown is drafted into a Murder Incorporated style squad of hitmen....
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Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish....
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El dengue del amor
Dancing fanatic weasels his way into Perez Prado's entourage as a personal assistant....
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La chamaca
Two young homeless people meet and fall in love, but bad luck separates them again every time they f...
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Picardía mexicana
An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful ...
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Las modelos de desnudos
Three interlocking anecdotes about boy/girl stuff. Two gigolos make a bet to see which can boff an h...
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El futbolista fenómeno
A beer seller is kidnapped by martians, who give him special powers to become a super football playe...
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Matar es fácil
Among Delia, a socialite, and Jorge a bohemian cabaret pianist, begins a relationship that ends in t...
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Dying of Laughter
Carnival worker is recruited by police to impersonate an old lady whose relatives want to kill her....
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La ley de las calles
Young man wants to marry, but his girlfriend's brothers beat the hell out of him and have him arrest...
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The Mocking Ghosts
Two fake fortune-tellers at a carnival accidentally conjure up some real ghosts....
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San Simón de los Magueyes
The statue of a town's patron saint is broken just before the annual Saint's Day festival, so the pr...
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Chain of lies
A lawyer cannot stop lying. And he gets into trouble when a lie becomes true....
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Confidencias de un ruletero
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation...
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Panic in the Mountain
Hunters go to a mine in the country looking for a treasure and discover rumors that the mine is curs...
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Échenme al gato
Comical mix-up in the operating room: by mistake, a notorious gangster's arm is grafted onto an acci...
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El gran pillo
A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfath...
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Tacos al Carbón
Tacos al carbón is a mexican movie released on june 8th 1972 on Mexico City....
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El Padre trampitas
Folksy, down-to-earth priest is willing to bend the rules & cheat a little, for the well-being o...
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Fieras contra fieras
In a small town governed by two rival families, the children break a decades-long feud by running aw...
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Hora y media de balazos
Unassuming, milquetoast-y shepherd-boy is pressured into posing as a dangerous gunslinger....
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The Son of Peter the Knife
The legend of "Peter The Knife" continues in this popular sequel to one of Mexico's all-time blockbu...
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El nieto del Zorro
Two strolling players are mistaken for locally-famous bandit. Also, a young lady's inheritance is at...
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Manos arriba
A tailor is mistaken for the leader of an agricultural union and gets tangled up in a price-fixing c...
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México de mis amores
Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing...
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Miradas que matan
Sketchy TV personality exploits a busker with psychic powers for personal gain....
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Ni hablar del peluquín
Some unlucky accidents cause an innocent person to be convicted to jail time, and on release he can ...
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Pobre huerfanita
Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, a...
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Music of Always
Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about fr...
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Soy un golfo
Slacker decides to work and create a career for himself after he falls in love with an ambitious wom...
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Suerte te dé Dios
Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're de...
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La marchanta
Young woman just-arrived in the big city makes friends with two middle-aged couples....
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El beisbolista fenómeno
The soul of a dead baseball player finds a human host to occupy so it can achieve some career goals ...
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El ladrón fenomeno
A movie about a thief who got caught but redeemed himself by getting a job as a locksmith....
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Los Fernández de Peralvillo
A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a cri...
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De Cocula es el mariachi
A ranchera singer and his band emigrate to Texas to try their luck there....
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Policías y ladrones
When an inexperienced police officer discovers a corpse while inspecting a crime scene, he flees wit...
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Santo and Blue Demon Against the Monsters
Bruno Halder a sinister scientist seeking revenge against his brother and niece is resurrected by Wa...
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Como México no hay dos
Rags-to-riches story about the rise of a fictional ranchera-music superstar....
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Voces de primavera
Don Lorenzo, who has a guest house, being in the ruin wants to marry his niece with a silly milliona...
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