Alfredo del Diestro Trailers
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Actor and film director, born in Valparaíso Chile, October 7, 1885, died in Mexico City in 1951. Son of Spanish merchant Juan del Diestro and Italian pianist Matilde Cavaletti, Alfredo del Diestro spent his adolescence in Havana with his parents. In 1900 he returned to Colombia with the theatrical company Juan del Diestro, formed by him and his younger brother Juan. The company remained in the country until 1903, when it resumed its transhumance through Central America and the Caribbean. In Havana he met the Mexican actress Emma Roldán, and married her.
In 1920, when he was doing a season at the Municipal Theater of Cali, he met Francisco Antonio Posada, who proposed him to co-direct with the Spaniard Máximo Calvo the silent feature film María. Del Diestro did the art direction, directed the dialogues and the staging. He returned to Mexico in 1924, where he continued working in film. His most outstanding performance was in the feature film Allá en el rancho grande, made in 1936.
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Total trailers found: 31
08 February 1933
A 1933 film.
01 August 1940
A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.
01 June 1940
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory.
20 August 1937
Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial government with Maximilian as figurehead.
09 October 1931
When Renée Duval, a Frenchwoman who had been on her way to Venice, is discovered by Al-Hadi, an Arabian prince in the wreckage of an ambushed caravan it is just the beginning of a breathless adventure that will put both their lives at risk!
20 January 1939
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
11 September 1941
Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
28 June 1934
The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
28 September 1937
Tired of being mistreated by his wife and children, Isidro (Del Diestro) leaves his family and follows young variety dancer Chayito (Tamayo) to Mexico City.
04 November 1948
While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many lives as possible.
22 May 1941
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas.
25 December 1948
Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
31 March 1933
Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt the living.
22 February 1942
A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.
18 March 1955
A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
25 December 1933
La noche del pecado is a Mexican and North American co-production directed by Miguel Contreras Torres with Ernesto Vilches, Ramón Pereda, Medea de Novara and produced by Contreras Torres in 1933.
09 December 1949
Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ.
01 October 1940
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
05 April 1934
In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the government and the revolutionary group.
22 April 1943
Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.
20 October 1922
María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca.
15 June 1949
Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son for target practice.
31 May 1933
Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man.
05 December 1930
Undercover police officer Dan Hogan infiltrates a ruthless gangster mob. Hogan’s main objective is to identify the real criminals responsible for the murder of his younger brother.
20 March 1931
A blackmailer falls in love with his female victim. Alternate-language version of The Lady Who Dared (1930).
20 June 1935
A biopic that narrates the life of the novohispanic poetess.
