Juan Orol
Birthday: 1897-08-04
Place of Birth: Lalín, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Biography: Juan Rogelio García García, better known as Juan Orol, was a Mexican-Spanish actor, producer, screenwriter and film director. He was known as The King of the Mexican Film noir. He was also known as The Involuntary Surrealist. He was a pioneer of the Mexican cinema's first talkies and one of the main promoters of the Rumberas film in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. His films have been described as cult films.
Movies
Soulless Women
Julian gets framed for stealing a company check by his superior Carlos who's courting his wife Olga...
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Gangsters Versus Cowboys
Gangster Johnny Carmenta must confront the "Charro of the Slums" Pancho Domínguez, who has control o...
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El amor de mi bohío
El Amor de M Bohio, which translates to "The Love of My Hut" (or shack ) and it comes from the lyric...
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Olmedo: El rey de la risa
Aspects of the life of Alberto Olmedo, from his childhood in Rosario, his beginnings as an acrobat a...
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Cabaret Shanghai
Nightclub-owner/gangster discovers that his dame and his second-in-command are cheating on him....
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Antesala de la silla eléctrica
A young man is sentenced to death on the electric chair. The lieutenant who captured him does all he...
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Historia de un gángster
Sequel to Juan Orol's "Organización criminal". After 6 years in prison, gangster Tony Florino is rel...
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Siboney
In 1868, while the Cuban War of Independence develops, Gaston de Montero, a noble Spanish knight, re...
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Contrabandistas del Caribe
A crime organization that deals with drug trafficking discovers that more and more drugs keep disapp...
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Organización criminal
A summit meeting of rival gangs, one predominantly Italian and the other a mix of Polish, Irish, and...
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Los misterios del hampa
Man on death row narrates the story of his life from childhood up through the criminal activities he...
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Perdición de mujeres
Small town girl moves to the big city. When she can't find a job, she starts hanging with a bad crow...
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México de noche
Two street gangs vie for primacy, which will give them control of drug smuggling and stolen jewelry....
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Under the Cover of Night
The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her ...
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El reino de los gángsters
Johnny Carmenta is a gunman who heads a gang of gangsters. Carmenta secretly acts as a kind of El Zo...
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El fantástico mundo de los hippies
The head of the FBI explains that hippies were good, but that they have degenerated due to psychedel...
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Under the influence of fear
Gang leader sets one of his flunkies up to take the fall for a certain job; after he does his jail t...
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El derecho y el deber
Officer comes home from the Revolution to discover that he's been declared dead and that his wife ha...
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Una mujer de Oriente
A secret agent investigates the death of the scientist who created a deadly ray only to find out his...
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El calvario de una esposa
Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his ni...
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Eterna mártir
A dedicated wife and mother takes the blame for embezzling money that was actually stolen by her hus...
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Hombres sin alma
Final installment in Juan Orol's Percal trilogy. In this film, Malena is freed from prison by a gang...
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The Hell of the Poor
A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in o...
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Secretaria peligrosa
A secretary plans to rob her boss with the help of her gangster boyfriend and his gang, but a specia...
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El sindicato del crimen
A hard-boiled crime story also known as "The Waiting-room of Death"....
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Plazos traicioneros
A down in his luck film director falls in love with an attractive waitress and decides to launch her...
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