Hugo Fregonese

Directing

Hugo Fregonese

Born — Died

1908-04-08 — 1987-01-17

Place of birth

Mendoza, Argentina

Known for

Directing

Credits

31 titles

Hugo Geronimo Fregonese (April 8, 1908 in Mendoza – January 11, 1987 in Tigre) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter who worked both in Hollywood and his home country.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Old Shatterhand poster
6.2

Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.

Old Shatterhand

1964

Donde mueren las palabras poster
6.2

An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.

Donde mueren las palabras

1946

Savage Pampas poster
7.1

In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires to prevent deserting soldiers.

Savage Pampas

1945

From Man to Man poster
10.0

A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.

From Man to Man

1949

Saddle Tramp poster
6.5

Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbouring ranch, and when a girl on the run from her nasty uncle joins the family unannounced Chuck wonders what he has done to deserve all this.

Saddle Tramp

1950

Find a Place to Die poster
4.8

An outcast Confederate soldier protects a woman from bandits trying to steal her gold mine.

Find a Place to Die

1968

Find a Place to Die poster
4.8

An outcast Confederate soldier protects a woman from bandits trying to steal her gold mine.

Find a Place to Die

1968

The Mark of the Renegade poster
5.7

An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.

The Mark of the Renegade

1951

Harry Black and the Tiger poster
6.7

In the mysterious jungle of India, Harry Black, a skilled hunter, hunts a dangerous tiger which attacked. This tiger has already claimed hundreds of victims. While recovering from his wounds will review the most important moments of his life.

Harry Black and the Tiger

1958

Assignment Terror poster
5.2

Aliens from a dying world plot to conquer earth by preying on man's superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various earth monsters, including the werewolf, Frankenstein's monster, the mummy Tao-Tet, and the vampire Count de Meirhoff.

Assignment Terror

1970

The Raid poster
6.6

A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.

The Raid

1954

Man in the Attic poster
5.4

London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?

Man in the Attic

1953

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse poster
6.2

The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

1964

Blowing Wild poster
6.0

Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.

Blowing Wild

1953

Untamed Frontier poster
7.3

The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...

Untamed Frontier

1952

Black Tuesday poster
6.2

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.

Black Tuesday

1954

One Way Street poster
5.3

After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.

One Way Street

1950

Marco Polo poster
4.5

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

Marco Polo

1962

The Bad Life poster
4.0

Buenos Aires, 1920. The Franco-Argentine and Polish-Argentine mafia begin a war for the control of the traffic of women and prostitution, based on real events about the 1920s Buenos Aires Mafias war.

The Bad Life

1973

Apache Drums poster
6.3

A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

Apache Drums

1951

My Six Convicts poster
6.5

A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.

My Six Convicts

1952

Seven Thunders poster
5.5

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.

Seven Thunders

1957

Savage Pampas poster
5.3

An army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang.

Savage Pampas

1966

Savage Pampas poster
5.3

An army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang.

Savage Pampas

1966

Decameron Nights poster
5.0

Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.

Decameron Nights

1953

Beyond the Sun poster
10.0

Biographic film about the pioneer of argentine aviation Jorge Newbery.

Beyond the Sun

1975

The Wanderers poster
10.0

Story of a family of wandering puppet makers and the destiny which rules their fate.

The Wanderers

1956

Hardly a Criminal poster
6.9

A bank employee uses a loophole in Argentine law to concoct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement after serving six years in prison…

Hardly a Criminal

1949