Víctor Manuel Mendoza

Acting

Víctor Manuel Mendoza

Born October 19, 1913 · Tala, Jalisco, Mexico

Died July 19, 1995 · aged 81

No biography available.

Known For

The Wonderful CountryThe Wonderful Country · 1959
The Wonderful Country
★ 6.11959
MovieWestern
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self-defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.
Garden of EvilGarden of Evil · 1954
Garden of Evil
★ 6.31954
MovieWestern
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.
SusanaSusana · 1951
Susana
★ 6.81951
MovieDrama
The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.
Ay, Carmela!Ay, Carmela! · 1990
Ay, Carmela!
★ 6.71990
MovieComedyDrama
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
The Proud and the BeautifulThe Proud and the Beautiful · 1953
The Proud and the Beautiful
★ 6.71953
MovieDrama
Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.
CowboyCowboy · 1958
Cowboy
★ 6.51958
MovieWestern
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...
The Shadow of the TyrantThe Shadow of the Tyrant · 1960
The Shadow of the Tyrant
★ 7.01960
MovieHistoryDrama
In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find themselves at his mercy as he will resort to anything to accomplish his will, including kidnapping, betrayal, and murder.
My Son, the HeroMy Son, the Hero · 1961
My Son, the Hero
★ 8.01961
MovieDramaWestern
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.

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The Wonderful CountryThe Wonderful Country · 1959
The Wonderful Country
★ 6.11959
MovieWestern
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating in Texas the gun shipment is stolen. Complicating matters further the wife of local army major Colton has designs on him, and the local Texas Ranger captain makes him a generous offer to come back to the states and join his outfit. After killing a man in self-defense, Brady slips back over the border and confronts Castro who is not only unhappy that Brady has lost his gun shipment but is about to join forces with Colton to battle the local raiding Apache Indians.

General Marcos Castro