Rafael E. Portas
Directing
Biography
Rafael Eligio Portas López (12/1/1897 – 5/11/1975), better known simply as Rafael E. Portas, was a Mexican director, producer, journalist, author, and editor of the first encyclopedia of Mexican cinema. He completed all his studies at Colegio Mascarones in Mexico. In 1915, he enrolled in the first year of Law at the Faculty of Jurisprudence in Mexico City, a program he later abandoned to join the armed forces defending the Port of Veracruz. Some time later, he left that military group to join the Villista army, where he remained until 1917. After ending his military career, and captivated by cinema and acting, in 1918 he organized amateur theater groups in which he not only served as coordinator but also performed as an actor. He left the theater and, from 1927 to 1930, worked in various roles within the national banking sector until becoming an investor. He later turned to journalism. He was the founder and editor of the magazine *Orizaba*. He returned to Mexico City and contributed to the newspaper *Excélsior*. Starting in 1931, he had the opportunity to enter the film industry as a producer of the films *El anónimo* (1932) and *El prisionero trece* (1933), both directed by *Fernando de Fuentes*, as well as *El héroe de Nacozari / Jesús García el héroe de Nacozari* (*Guillermo “El Indio” Calles*, 1933), among others.
Known For
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.
The Proud and the Beautiful
A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but they refuse.
Late Afternoon
A 1940 film directed by Rafael E. Portas.
Los últimos días de Pompeyo
Priest founds an orphanage, faces conflicts with townsfolk.
With all my heart
Two pen-pals decide to get married, but the groom cooks up a scheme to test his fiancee's moral fibr before they tie the knt.
Esa mujer es la mía
Manuel retires from bullfighting and, years later, runs a fighting bull ranch.
Sol y sombra
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Abnegación
A dancer is accused of killing a businessman. When her husband finds out, he decides to take her kid away from her.
Noche de perdición
Romantic triangles, jealousy and duels on horseback at a hacienda.
Adios Nicanor
Documentary on the life, work, and death of Jorge Negrete. Mexico's "Singing Cowboy". Includes some of the greatest stars of that era—Pedro Infante. Maria Felix, Luis, Aguilar, Cantinflas. Arturo de Cordova, Jose Alfredo Jimenez and many more—who came to say goodbye to Mexico's Cowboy and to give their condolences to Marie Felix, his widow at the time. Wonderful singing and unforgettable scenes from Negrete's movies, a well-deserved tribute to one of Mexican cinema's favorite actors and singers.
The Immortal Charro
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Suprema ley
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Tu mujer es la mía
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Un domingo en la tarde
An infamous band of thieves continues to succeed in robbing private caravans and government carriages as they pass through the countryside, puzzling the authorities. Soon, though, a mysterious masked man begins to upstage the gang of thieves by robbing the cargoes before the thieves can, and then returning the stolen money after the robbers find the travelers empty-handed. Soon, both the government and the band of highwaymen are trying to discover the identity of the "Jinete Fantasma.
The Ghost Rider
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Bohemios
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Para que la cuna apriete
Mexican movie