
Directing
Hugo Fregonese
Born 1908-04-08 · Mendoza, Argentina
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.
Acting credits
3.7A suburban girl struggles to become a star.
Vení conmigo
1973
6.7A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.
The Hurricane
1937
8.0The romance between a nuclear physicist and a translator for the United Nations.
Un momento muy largo
1964
Behind the camera
6.2Renegades 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
6.2The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
1964
6.5A 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
6.0Wildcatter 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
7.1In 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
6.3A 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
4.8An outcast Confederate soldier protects a woman from bandits trying to steal her gold mine.
Find a Place to Die
1968
4.8An outcast Confederate soldier protects a woman from bandits trying to steal her gold mine.
Find a Place to Die
1968
5.3An army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang.
Savage Pampas
1966
5.3An army captain in Argentina learns why his lonely men are deserting to an outlaw's gaucho gang.
Savage Pampas
1966
4.5Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.
Marco Polo
1962
7.3The 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
5.4London, 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
6.5Carefree 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
4.0Buenos 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
6.1Vicious 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
5.5Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
Seven Thunders
1957
5.3After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
One Way Street
1950
6.5A 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
5.0Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.
Decameron Nights
1953
6.7In 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
10.0Story of a family of wandering puppet makers and the destiny which rules their fate.
The Wanderers
1956
5.2Aliens 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
6.3An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.
Donde mueren las palabras
1946
