Ernesto Vilches

Gustavo de Carrara has made his fortune running a diamond mine in South Africa, but he can't quite remember who he was before 1921, though he suspects he was a soldier. A waiter at the Melilla hotel where he's staying confirms this suspicion by recognizing him as Augusto Miralles, his captain at the Battle of Annual, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Spanish Version of MGM's "The Phantom of Paris". Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.

Two young and innocent altar boys leave in search of money to buy a new bell for the tower of the village church.

A group of young people from the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires recount their wanderings and their days in high school at the time of the National Organization in Buenos Aires.

The love story between Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, after the independence of the country, and Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos.

The life of Saint Rosa de Lima.

A married man hides from his family that he has a black son, which causes a true tragedy.

The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.

A Russian duke who's fallen on hard times tries to recover a stash of jewels hidden inside an armchair, but the chair gets sold at auction to a millionairess and he's forced to marry her in order to retrieve the treasure.

Mexican movie

Hands sculpted in stone, hidden in the niches of an ancient house, are regarded as sources of a curse by the present inhabitant, a country gambling addict. Indeed, he goes to an early grave after experiencing bankruptcy. The house passes to another family, one of whose sons becomes obsessed with the hands. (A cross-editing of principal material from two Chilean films, LA CASA ESTA VACIA and LA DAMA DE LA MUERTE, with the addition of new American-made footage, to create a single story.)

Kingdom of Castile, the late fifteenth century. The film chronicles the events that Cristóbal Colón lived (Antonio Vilar) from their stay in the Convent of La Rabida, his meeting with the Catholic Monarchs and, above all, the great odyssey that led to cross the Atlantic and reach the shores of America (1492), thus beginning a new era in the history of mankind.

Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.

A woman takes the place of a wife who had died seven years earlier.

An international group is trying to destabilize Mexico by assassinating the President.

This beautiful, atmospheric Chilean movie (made by an Argentinian director) was unfortunately "cannibalized" by Jerry Warren, who kept about a third of the original footage, together with another third of "La dama de la muerte" (another superb Chilean movie of the same period, made by Argentinian director Carlos Hugo Christensen), then added his own senseless "additional sequences" with John Carradine and Katherine Victor, the final result being the atrocious CURSE OF THE STONE HAND.

Spanish conquerors from the XVI century arrive in America to establish a population.

Mexican movie

Drama film directed and written by Miguel Contreras Torres.

The young widow of the viceroy of Peru, facing the dismal prospect of either a convent or a marriage of convenience, sets out to conquer a handsome officer, pretending she’s a duende, a ghost.

Film about the life of Francisco Ramírez, leader of Entre Ríos.

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.