Gilberto Gazcón

Directing

Gilberto Gazcón

Born — Died

1929-05-19 — 2013-05-11

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Directing

Credits

42 titles

Gilberto Gazcón de Anda (May 19, 1929 – May 11, 2013) was a Mexican film director , screenwriter and producer. He wrote more than fifty screenplays , directed more than thirty films, won numerous awards, and was a promoter of Mexican cinema. He is best known in English-speaking countries for the neo noir thriller film Rage (1966), starring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens . Gilberto Gazcón was born in Mexico City on 19 May 1929. He was the son of film producer and screenwriter Valentín Gazcón, and the nephew of Raúl de Anda , pioneers of Mexican sound cinema. His brother Edgardo Gazcón also became a filmmaker. He showed an aptitude for art from an early age, and was drawn to cinema, where he …

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

El Cínico poster
5.4

Traveling salesman's amoral/sometimes criminal behavior catches up with him after he settles in at his brother's vinyard.

El Cínico

1970

Perro callejero poster
8.1

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

Perro callejero

1980

Perro callejero poster
8.1

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

Perro callejero

1980

Rage poster
5.6

Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.

Rage

1966

Rage poster
5.6

Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.

Rage

1966

Rage poster
5.6

Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.

Rage

1966

Atrás de las nubes poster
5.7

All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...

Atrás de las nubes

1962

Al rojo vivo poster
4.0

Three parallel romances among young people working in a steel mill.

Al rojo vivo

1969

Los aventureros poster
6.3

Two brothers and their pops end up helping out an orphaned young woman who wants revenge against her father's murderer.

Los aventureros

1954

The Boy and the Star poster
7.0

Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. '

The Boy and the Star

1976

The Boy and the Star poster
7.0

Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. '

The Boy and the Star

1976

The Boy and the Star poster
7.0

Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. '

The Boy and the Star

1976

Dos de abajo poster
4.7

Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.

Dos de abajo

1983

Dos de abajo poster
4.7

Two bozo construction workers discover a cache of 19th century gold coins while demolishing a building.

Dos de abajo

1983

Death in Cold Blood poster
4.7

A man is murdered. His father tracks the killer, hoping to get revenge before the police capture him. What happened to cause his son's death is gradually revealed.

Death in Cold Blood

1978

Death in Cold Blood poster
4.7

A man is murdered. His father tracks the killer, hoping to get revenge before the police capture him. What happened to cause his son's death is gradually revealed.

Death in Cold Blood

1978

No artwork available
6.0

Law officer tracks and recaptures escaped convict.

La cárcel de Cananea

1960

Suerte Te De Dios poster
5.8

Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.

Suerte Te De Dios

1961

No artwork available
6.3

Three men receive a newborn child, along with a message that leaves the mother for dead and one of them for the father.

Tres bribones

1955

No artwork available
6.2

Troubled young man meets his father for the first time.

Cielo Rojo

1962

El cielo y tú poster
5.0

Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.

El cielo y tú

1971

No artwork available
6.0

Zorroesque adventure pitting two swordsmen against a newly-appointed governor who wastes no time in displaying his despotic tendencies. Sequel to En El Viejo California.

Los bravos de California

1963

No artwork available
5.6

Four young women facing "crises," mostly centered around the crucially-important issue of preserving their virginity in a variety of purity-oath threatening situations.

Señoritas

1959

Fugitivos: Pueblo de proscritos poster
5.3

After breaking out of jail, a group of convicts finds a ghost town they can take possession of. They send word out along the grapevine that criminals and marginal people can make a home there... and as the population grows, their self-policing efforts turn the whole town into a model community.

Fugitivos: Pueblo de proscritos

1955

With the Devil in the Body poster
5.8

Believing he's committed murder, an unscrupulous adventurer, Lucio Márquez, flees town and takes refuge on a ranch managed by his brother Fausto. Fausto is an honorable man and is about to become engaged to the daughter of the owner of the property under whom he works. He warmly welcomes the errant man and lends his support. Until, disloyally and out of self-interest, his friend steals his fiancée. After struggling between her sincere love for one and her passion for the other, she ends up making a bad choice that could cost her her life.

With the Devil in the Body

1954

En la vieja California poster
5.8

Bastard son kidnaps legitimate heir in attempt to suborn their father's estate... but a surrogate comes forward to impersonate the real heir while the other problem getss resolved.

En la vieja California

1963

Juan sin miedo poster
6.0

One-armed man tracks the people who killed his father.

Juan sin miedo

1961

Tres amigos poster
5.8

Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.

Tres amigos

1970

Tres amigos poster
5.8

Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.

Tres amigos

1970

Rosa de dos aromas poster
5.4

Two women meet by accident and discover that they both have 10 year+ relationships with the same man. Also, unrelated subplots involving other women.

Rosa de dos aromas

1989

Rosa de dos aromas poster
5.4

Two women meet by accident and discover that they both have 10 year+ relationships with the same man. Also, unrelated subplots involving other women.

Rosa de dos aromas

1989

No artwork available
6.6

The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The Laughter Of The City

1963

Perro callejero 2 poster
7.3

After serving his three-year sentence, Perro, who was only visited by Father Maromas, returns to his old environment. There, Chava recruits him back into drug trafficking.

Perro callejero 2

1981

Perro callejero 2 poster
7.3

After serving his three-year sentence, Perro, who was only visited by Father Maromas, returns to his old environment. There, Chava recruits him back into drug trafficking.

Perro callejero 2

1981

El gran pillo poster
5.5

A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.

El gran pillo

1960

El gran pillo poster
5.5

A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.

El gran pillo

1960

No artwork available
5.7

Three childhood friends are reunited after twenty years to receive an inheritance.

Tres tristes tigres

1961

No artwork available
5.7

Three childhood friends are reunited after twenty years to receive an inheritance.

Tres tristes tigres

1961

What a Man poster
6.2

Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.

What a Man

1955

Traigo la sangre caliente poster
6.0

Footloose roving-gambler type marries a young woman against her father's wishes; she assimilates herself to his rootless, random lifestyle, but her family is working to track them down. Eventually, he decides to settle down and lead a more responsible life, home-and-family style... and then...

Traigo la sangre caliente

1977