
Chano Urueta
Directing
Biography
Santiago Eduardo Urueta Sierra Rodríguez (Mineral de Cusihuiriachi, Chihuahua, Mexico, February 24, 1895-Mexico City, March 23, 1979), better known as Chano Urueta, was a film director, actor and writer who stood out since the first half of the 1930s as one of the most gifted adapters of great works of universal literature.
Known For

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
The Wild Bunch

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

An outlaw and a scorned husband both team up to track down and kill the man that wronged them. Along the way, the two men meet a hired gun that loves money just as much as he loves the company of women, so the two men decide to hire him in order to help them on their mission. However, things become complicated when the man they all seek to kill has risen to become a wealthy sheriff with a small army of gunmen at his disposal.
Guns and Guts

Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.
The Sign of Death

Archaeologists, tomb robbers, a strange character and an adventurer undertake the search for the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, driven by different motivations: from the mere archaeological find to the destruction of humanity.
Kaliman, the Incredible Man

A wrestling hero helps the police in their battle against a mad doctor and his army of female zombies.
Blue Demon vs. the Infernal Brains

Cowboy goes to track down the man who murdered his brother, but it turns out to be someone other than the one he was looking for. Together, they set things straight and take care of the real murderer.
Una bala es mi testigo

This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
Emiliano Zapata

Chanoc, along with his godfather, Tsekub Baloyán, investigate a series of mysterious deaths linked to a gang that extracts uranium.
Chanoc

After a party, two friends pick up two beautiful girls with whom they spend a wonderful night. The next day, the two friends return to look for them and a neighbor surprises them when she tells them that the girls died some time before. Intrigued by the events of the previous night, one of them decides to investigate the mystery of the two dead girls.
An Adventure in the Night

During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
The Underdogs

Two women are installed in the cabin of a ship that was already occupied by two gentlemen.
Música, mujeres y amor

In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants
The Brainiac

Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
The Wrath of God

A young couple meet in the reformatory and try to make a life together after they're released.
Dos almas en el mundo

A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").
The Headless Rider

Crooked promoter has a secret weapon who goes around beating fighters to death after their matches if they aren't in line with his rigging schedule. Part one of two.
Los tigres del ring

Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.
The Incredible Professor Zovek

Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels.
Del suelo no paso

The three Diablo brothers are effete dandies who love chamber music and afternoon tea... but they also love brawling and whoring and all that wild west stuff. They inherit a ranch, and all hell breaks loose when they go to take ownership of it.