Gilberto Gazcón
Directing
Biography
Gilberto Gazcón de Anda (May 19, 1929 – May 11, 2013) was a Mexican film director , screenwriter and producer. He wrote more than fifty screenplays , directed more than thirty films, won numerous awards, and was a promoter of Mexican cinema. He is best known in English-speaking countries for the neo noir thriller film Rage (1966), starring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens . Gilberto Gazcón was born in Mexico City on 19 May 1929. He was the son of film producer and screenwriter Valentín Gazcón, and the nephew of Raúl de Anda , pioneers of Mexican sound cinema. His brother Edgardo Gazcón also became a filmmaker. He showed an aptitude for art from an early age, and was drawn to cinema, where he began as a child actor and later worked as an assistant set designer. He began writing his own screenplays, and decided to abandon his medical career and enrolled in film adaptation courses and studied acting at the Cinematographic Academy, directed by Celestino Gorostiza . The first film to be released with a plot written by him was Fierecilla (1950), directed by Fernando Méndez [ es ] , which received favorable reviews for its plot and the psychology of its characters. In 1958 he directed his first film, The Boxer. In 1966 he directed a Mexican-American co-production Rage ( El mal ), starring Glenn Ford and Stella Stevens. In 1960 he directed Lacarcel de Cananea , which was shown at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. He directed more than 30 films, including The Uprooted (1959), The Laughter of the City (1962), Stray Dog (1980), and Stray Dog II (1981). He was a founding member in 1963 of the Mexican Society of Film, Radio and Television Directors and Producers (Sociedad Mexicana de Directores y Realizadores de Cine, Radio y Televisión ), and honorary president since 1982. He died on May 11, 2013 at the age of 83, due to pulmonary complications caused by an embolism. Film director Juan Antonio de la Riva, head of the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, described him as "a great man, who in his career as a writer and director always strove to be ambitious, always pursued quality cinema, which was demonstrated in most of his films".
Known For
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
Perro callejero
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
Rage
The misunderstanding between two people; lack of consideration in marriage; the false image that the children of the parents have; the easy door; the quick fix. It does not matter to debase, it does not matter to stain. A family watching at the apex of violence.
Relaciones violentas
Disenfranchised drifter finds a home, working on a young orphan woman's ranch.
El Desconocido
Family in crisis: the American Dream collapses for four members of a Mexican family in Texas, all at the same time.
Los desarraigados
Traveling salesman's amoral/sometimes criminal behavior catches up with him after he settles in at his brother's vinyard.
El Cínico
All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...
Atrás de las nubes
Wanted to fly to the sky ...And one day he got it When a child dares to steal the keys to the orphanage, guarded by a soldier, is exposed to too many dangers. This is the story of that child, freeing his birds, he demanded to life and men, their own freedom. '
The Boy and the Star
After serving his three-year sentence, Perro, who was only visited by Father Maromas, returns to his old environment. There, Chava recruits him back into drug trafficking.
Perro callejero 2
Father and adult sons give help to an orphaned teenage girl.
What a Man
Three childhood friends are reunited after twenty years to receive an inheritance.
Tres tristes tigres
Man accused of murder, and the dead man's daughter, try to find proof of the real murderer's identity.
Tres amigos
Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City.
El cafre
Two women meet by accident and discover that they both have 10 year+ relationships with the same man. Also, unrelated subplots involving other women.
Rosa de dos aromas
Two construction workers discover a stash of gold coins hidden in the walls of a building they're demolishing.
Suerte Te De Dios
A man is murdered. His father tracks the killer, hoping to get revenge before the police capture him. What happened to cause his son's death is gradually revealed.
Death in Cold Blood
Troubled young man meets his father for the first time.
Cielo Rojo
Footloose roving-gambler type marries a young woman against her father's wishes; she assimilates herself to his rootless, random lifestyle, but her family is working to track them down. Eventually, he decides to settle down and lead a more responsible life, home-and-family style... and then...
Traigo la sangre caliente
Priest suffers a head injury, develops amnesia, ends up in a hippie commune.
El cielo y tú
A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.