ENG-SP films (last 20's-early 30's)
Combining at least English and Spanish
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- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsCharles BickfordRaymond HattonFred KohlerThree bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsBarbara StanwyckSam HardyWilliam JanneyA drama set in a border town gambling saloon. The owner falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of town. She gets revenge by marrying his younger brother.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsFay WrayVictor VarconiCharles JudelsVictor Varconi plays a charming Mexican bandit gets involved in several conflicting paradoxical relations, including an alliance with a crooked rival bandit and a beautiful daughter of the governor.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsHelen TwelvetreesPhillips HolmesMarjorie RambeauA Havana bar girl with a tough "protector" falls for a young sailor.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsRichard BarthelmessMary AstorFred KohlerDon Francisco Delfina, a nobleman of Southern California in 1848, disguises himself as El Puma and leads a revolt against the tyrannical land agent and politician Peter Harkness.
- DirectorJohn P. McCarthyStarsBob SteeleRita ReyAl St. JohnA cowboy looking for his missing father, poses as an outlaw and joins the gang he thinks is responsible.
- DirectorSpencer Gordon BennetStarsJosé BohrMyrna LoyWalter MillerNotorious Mexican bandit El Malo forces the Mayor of Sierra Blanca, Seth Landport, to open the safe and turn over to him 2,000 pesos, which the bandit gives a promissory note for to the Mayor. Seth rushes to the cantina where Sheriff Rankin is drinking, and the sheriff posts a reward for the capture of El Malo. El Malo informs his men of the reward. The bandit and his sidekick Pedro visit the cantina where Pedro resumes a former acquaintance with Dolores, while El Malo has his attention directed to a tango being performed by Carmita. El Malo pushes her dancing partner aside and finishes the dance with Carmita. Since Seth's description of him is inaccurate, "El May" visits the sheriff and promises to deliver the wanted bandit to the cantina the following night. The next morning, El Malo and Pedro depart and, halting their horses on a hill, they view the stagecoach being held up by a trio of outlaws. They follow the outlaws to their hideout, where they discover the leader is the trusted town-mayor Seth. El Malo tells him to be in the cantina that night. Then things get involved, including the wrath of the displaced tango partner. El Malo handles it all without breaking a sweat.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsRex LeaseArmidaClyde CookAn American aviator and his mechanic are forced to make an emergency landing in Mexico. They fall into the hands of a bandit who wants to overthrow the government and become the ruler of a new republic. The bandit's henchman forces the two Americans to commit a robbery, only for the two men to be caught and arrested by the government.
- DirectorLouis KingStarsBuck JonesLupita TovarJim MasonWhen Shag Smith kills Jim's brother Bob, Jim and Thunder quit the rangers so they can cross the border and join Smith's gang. Jim's plan is to get the gang to cross back over the border where the rangers will be waiting.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsLawrence TibbettLupe VelezErnest TorrenceA guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find his illegitimate child.
- DirectorTenny WrightStarsJohn WayneNoah BeeryPaul HurstDeputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardSam WoodStarsWilliam HainesMadge EvansConrad NagelTwo sailors are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all that they succeed in doing is to sink the Admiral's launch. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the World. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsLupe VelezLee TracyEugene PalletteA barker at a down-at-the-heels carnival becomes a powerhouse New York publicity man as he transforms a sideshow dancer into a Broadway sensation.
- DirectorChester M. FranklinStarsMonte BlueDorothy BurgessNoah BeeryA man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.
- DirectorWallace FoxStarsEdwina BoothDuncan RenaldoDot FarleyAn American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert has a hard time figuring out which is which, especially since Romanian native Renaldo uses the same accent for both brothers.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanAlfred E. GreenStarsRichard BarthelmessSally EilersTom BrownAviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
- DirectorEdward BuzzellStarsNancy CarrollJohn BolesBuck JonesPaul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsJoan BlondellGlenda FarrellGuy KibbeeTwo golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
- DirectorWarren MillaisStarsSari MaritzaWilliam Collier Jr.Alan MowbrayJohnny, the son of a rich man, is an idling, good-for-nothing loafer who leads a wild, hectic life, flunks out of college, and is disinherited and made to leave home by his father, who has given up on him in despair. Johnny opens a gas-station in Arizona, where "Waffles," a girl from Georgia, takes him in hand and employs her own methods of reformation with astonishing and fruitful results. More comedy than drama, if the meller-drammer acting is overlooked. It was released in the UK as "The Girl From Georgia" in 1934.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsWarren WilliamMay RobsonGuy KibbeeA gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.
- DirectorFord BeebeStarsVictor McLaglenConchita MontenegroWilliam 'Stage' BoydEaster, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe-hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him after his job is done. Here, he also encounters his son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsGreta GarboJohn GilbertIan KeithQueen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.
- DirectorMack V. WrightStarsJohn WayneDukeHenry B. WalthallJohn Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsStarsJack HoxieLane ChandlerMarceline DayThe Government has approved Betty Castelar's Spanish land grant and notification is sent via pony express. Porter is after her ranch and waylays rider Buck Carson to get the letter. Left to die in the desert, he is saved by Castelar's horse and brought to her ranch. When Porter later arrives, a peculiar mannerism lets Buck identify him as the gang leader and he vows to get the letter back.
- DirectorLloyd CorriganStarsLupe VelezLeo CarrilloMelvyn DouglasIn a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a misnomer indeed!)is, he proves unable to charm Lolita, the shapely daughter of his neighbor, a big-time rancher. Lolita expects better than this awkward unprepossessing showoff! Besides the fortune-teller she consults tells her her true love will get into her life after a terrible storm. This very night a violent storm does break out and an American pilot, whose plane is caught in it, is forced to make an emergency landing next to where she lives. The gringo - by the name of Phil Marvin - is both dashing and good-looking. Good news for Lolita but bad news for Innocencio who is not ready to bow that easily...
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsEddie CantorLyda RobertiRobert YoungAn innocent man accused of robbing banks masquerades as a bullfighter to escape the police.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsRonald ColmanVilma BánkyGary CooperWhile building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.