Hugo Fregonese

Hugo Fregonese

April 8, 1908 · 118 years old

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

11 titles
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Man in the Attic

Man in the Attic

1953 · 1h 22m · Movie

After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper.

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Old Shatterhand

Old Shatterhand

1964 · 1h 29m · Movie

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.

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3
Blowing Wild

Blowing Wild

1953 · 1h 30m · Movie

In South America, after Jeff Dawson and Dutch Peterson's oil rigs are dynamited by local bandits, the two partners resort to risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise money.

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4
Assignment Terror

Assignment Terror

1970 · 1h 27m · Movie

An alien scientist and his team are sent to earth from their dying planet to exterminate the human population by unleashing monsters like vampires, werewolves, and mummies in order to inherit the earth.

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Black Tuesday

Black Tuesday

1954 · 1h 20m · Movie

Gangster Vincent Canelli and bank robber Peter Manning escape from Death Row minutes before their execution by electric chair.

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Apache Drums

Apache Drums

1951 · 1h 16m · Movie

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

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One Way Street

One Way Street

1950 · 1h 19m · Movie

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

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Savage Pampas

Savage Pampas

1966 · 1h 52m · Movie

In the late 1800s, an army captain tries to tame the open plains of Argentina, which are dominated by Indians and bandits. To help do this, the captain brings in a party of women to keep his soldiers happy.

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9
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

1964 · 1h 30m · Movie

British Secret Service agent Major Anders is dispatched to Malta to investigate Professor Larsen, who has invented a powerful weapon of mass-destruction, a death ray machine on his island.

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10
Find a Place to Die

Find a Place to Die

1968 · 1h 29m · Movie

An outcast Confederate soldier redeems himself by defending a woman against bandits willing to kill for her goldmine claim.

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11
Marco Polo

Marco Polo

1962 · 1h 35m · Movie

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

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