
Directing
Alfonso Corona Blake
Born — Died
1919-01-02 — 1999-01-21
Place of birth
Autlán de Navarro (México)
Known for
Directing
Credits
32 titles
Alfonso Corona Blake (2 January 1919 – 21 January 1999) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed 27 films between 1956 and 1971. His film The Road of Life won the Honourable Mention (Director) award at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.
Known for
4.2A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
Santo vs. the Vampire Women
1962
4.9El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!
Santo in the Wax Museum
1963
6.4A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later...
The Sin of a Mother
1960
6.3A bar-girl's job becomes inescapable after her involvement in a murder. The bar owner deals with relationship troubles from her cheating boyfriend and her adopted daughter's ambitions.
Tragic Cabaret
1958
Scheming and double-crosses as an old man and his doxy go to Guatemala to retrieve a stolen treasure that he hid there in years past.
Pecado
1962
6.2Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.
Heaven and Earth
1962
Behind the camera
4.2A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
Santo vs. the Vampire Women
1962
4.9El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!
Santo in the Wax Museum
1963
4.9El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!
Santo in the Wax Museum
1963
6.4A man dies and his mistress gives their son to his wife. Twenty years later...
The Sin of a Mother
1960
6.3A bar-girl's job becomes inescapable after her involvement in a murder. The bar owner deals with relationship troubles from her cheating boyfriend and her adopted daughter's ambitions.
Tragic Cabaret
1958
6.3A bar-girl's job becomes inescapable after her involvement in a murder. The bar owner deals with relationship troubles from her cheating boyfriend and her adopted daughter's ambitions.
Tragic Cabaret
1958
Scheming and double-crosses as an old man and his doxy go to Guatemala to retrieve a stolen treasure that he hid there in years past.
Pecado
1962
6.2Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.
Heaven and Earth
1962
5.6A vampire uses two sisters to seek revenge from the last member of a family that persecuted the undead in Europe, but his plan is threatened by a man who knows how to destroy him with a peculiar piece of music.
The World of the Vampires
1961
6.6The story focuses in on three young boys who, arrested by the authorities, await sentencing in Mexico City's Juvenile Court. One boy has killed his stepfather to protect his mother; the second boy has been goaded into blinding his chief tormentor; and the third resorts to stealing to support his family.
The Road of Life
1956
4.6During the Mexican Revolution, Beatriz's body is discovered by some kids. The police began to investigate the history of Beatriz.
Violent Summer
1960
6.7M/F couple joins the Revolution, but she ends up in bed with Villa.
El centauro Pancho Villa
1967
6.2Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. His manners and his love for Maria, a local attractive widow, will get him into trouble
Thirst for Love
1959
6.2Pedro Ortiz, a brave charro, arrives to a fishing village that is passing hard times. There's no fish in the waters. His manners and his love for Maria, a local attractive widow, will get him into trouble
Thirst for Love
1959
5.5Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
The Woman and the Beast
1959
5.5Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
The Woman and the Beast
1959
6.0Motherhood-and-martyrdom melodrama.
Arrullo de Dios
1967
5.5After a criminal gang kidnaps a scientist with valuable information about nuclear weapons, an undercover agent named Jorge Rubio tries to infiltrate this gang in order to deal with the situation. The gang, however, quickly unmasks Rubio and uses both brainwashing and torture techniques on him. They also create a clone of Rubio, thus setting up a show-down battle between the two look-alikes.
Alerta, alta tension
1969
5.7The young pacifist Claudio is saddened to see some children playing war. He goes with a group of rebels who make fun of him and invite him to participate in a motorcycle race where the prize is a girl. Ál wins the race with the help of Rafael, the head of the band, and decides to buy to join the group, on a trip they meet with some hippies led by a psychologist who opposes drugs. Two of the gang members, Gabriel and Bernardo, attack one of the girls; the hippies in revenge violate Mimi and sa Julia, for which Bernardo kills a hippie. Claudio fights with him but Mimi intervenes and receives a stab aimed at Claudio. Ál recalls that Rafael was a brother and a lover of her. The police arrest the hippies and scold the parents for the behavior of the young people.
Más allá de la violencia
1971
A middle-aged professor, disillusioned with his life and struggling through a midlife crisis, becomes infatuated with a much younger woman named Emma.
Felicidad
1957
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Lágrimas de amor
1959
6.6Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood.
Yo pecador
1959
4.0Crime melodrama involving blackmail, murder, mystery and the obligatory police investigation.
Mujeres de medianoche
1969
In his home-town, he's a respectable rancher... but out on the range he's a hitman for hire. His son finds out about his double life, and...
Dos valientes
1969
6.0Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide.
La torre de marfil
1958
5.8A rich young woman marries a man who will disappoint her emotionally and financially.
Creo en ti
1960
5.2Two ranchers competing over a woman. Cult actor Noe Murayama plays a mentally handicapped character.
Audaz y bravero
1965
5.2Jewel-thief and his girlfriend try to go straight.
Las pecadoras
1968
6.6No synopsis available yet.
Fiebre de juventud
1966
6.3A young man wants to create a reputation for himself as a gunslinger; an older mentor tries to warn him that he's making life decisions he'll regret and never be able to undo.
Yo El Valiente
1964
6.3A young man wants to create a reputation for himself as a gunslinger; an older mentor tries to warn him that he's making life decisions he'll regret and never be able to undo.
Yo El Valiente
1964
6.2Four amoral drifters team up to retrieve a cache of gold coins from its hiding place.
Los malvados
1966
