
Miguel Morayta
Directing
Biography
Miguel Morayta was born on August 15, 1907 in Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for El mártir del Calvario (1952), Vagabunda (1950) and La mujer marcada (1957). He died on June 19, 2013 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Known For

Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.
Guns for San Sebastian

The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
The Martyr of Calvary

Dr. Satan, a mad scientist and sorceror, plans to take over the world. In order to do so, he wakes up three zombie slaves from the dead and attempts to make a deal with the devil. He sends his zombie servants to do harm to anyone who stands in his way. Will anyone be able to stop him?
Dr. Satan

A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer.
Hipócrita..!

Tin Tan stands in as the double of a kidnapped millionaire.
Vagabundo y Millonario

Rene, a street urchin, is coerced by the head of a gang of thieves, Frank, who wants to force him to remain in their organization. One day, Rene meets Anita, a young aristocrat to whom Frank attempted to rob. And because she feels sympathy for him, the boy will have the opportunity to change his life and leave the country to make a deal with a rich heir, Fernando de Ponce, which proposes Rene to supplant him before his old aunt, who does not know him.
Joselito vagabundo

Comedy film starring Viruta and Capulina.
Los reyes del volante

Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...
The Intruder

A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
La venenosa
Unanimously flunking his professional medical exam, Apolonio dabbles with more enthusiasm than idea in ballet, theater, painting and sculpture before establishing himself as the "doctor of the madwomen". Supported by his unconditional girlfriend Maruca, the young man prescribes music to the deranged ladies who visit him to be treated in his magical therapeutic chair.
The Doctor of the Crazy Women

Anthropologist goes to small town to do field work supporting her theories about the primitive/subhuman origins of machismo.
Me importa poco

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Vagabunda

A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage.
El secreto de mi mujer

Inspired by Alexander Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers, Alma de Acero presents a delightful spin on the classic story of twin brothers (both played by Luis Aguilar) and their contrasting lives. As a singer in a nightclub, one brother has chosen a life of peaceful simplicity; the other, however, has chosen a troublesome lifestyle that leads to numerous run-ins with the law, forcing the vocalist to risk his own life to save his sibling.
Soul of Steel

Young nightclub performer, down on her luck, falls in with a portrait-cartoonist who works the streets and a terminally-ill singer-songwriter and goes to live on their houseboat. They consider doing a crime.
Socios para la aventura

The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
They also sing of pain

A Mexican singer travels the world and finds love in Argentina.
Que me toquen las golondrinas
Itinerant folk-singer returns to his home town, gets caught in two intersecting love triangles. It ends badly.
Rogaciano el huapanguero

A voodoo warlock turns a girl into a zombie, by the orders of her stepmother, so she can continue her affair with the girl's boyfriend.
Morir para vivir

A man makes a pact with Lucifer in order to gain the love of a beautiful singer. To achieve his goal, the devil endows him with the ability to become invisible at will.