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Germán Genaro Cipriano Gomez Valdés Castillo (September 19, 1915 – June 29, 1973), better known as Tin-Tan, was an actor, singer and comedian who was born in Mexico City but was raised and began his career in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. He often displayed the pachuco dress and employed pachuco slang in many of his movies, some with his brothers Manuel "El Loco" Valdés and Ramón Valdés. He made the language of the Mexican American pachucos famous in Mexico. A "caló" based in Spanglish, it was a mixture of Spanish and English in speech based on that of Mexican immigrants.
He usually acted with his "Carnal" (brother, from "hermano carnal", flesh brother, meaning two sons of the same mother, also has the meaning of "brother from another mother"), Marcelo Chávez, who also accompanied Tin-Tan with a guitar. He was a prominent figure during his golden years of movie making, from 1949. His 1948 movie, Calabacitas tiernas, a comedy, was chosen as one of the best in Mexican cinema[citation needed].
He has the record of having kissed the most actresses in his career[citation needed], some of them the beauties of their day. Some of his co-stars were Marga López, Rosita Quintana, Silvia Pinal, Amalia Aguilar, Meche Barba, Ana Bertha Lepe, Maria Antonieta Pons, Tongolele and many more. He also collaborated closely with actress and comedian Fannie Kauffman, who was also known as Vitola, during their careers.
El Mariachi is a 1992 American action film that is the debut of writer/director Robert Rodriguez. The Spanish language film was shot in the northern Mexican bordertown of Ciudad Acuña with a mainly amateur cast. The US$7,000 production was originally intended for the Mexican home video market, but executives at Columbia Pictures liked the film so much that they bought the American distribution rights. Columbia eventually spent several times more than the 16 mm film's original budget on 35 mm transfers, promotion, marketing and distribution.
The success of Rodriguez's directorial debut led him to create two further entries, Desperado (1995) and Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), in what came to be known as the Mexico Trilogy. In 2011, the film was inducted into the Library of Congress to be preserved as part of its National Film Registry for being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
In a small Mexican town, a ruthless criminal, nicknamed Azul (Reinol Martínez), breaks out of jail and vows revenge on the local drug lord, Moco (Peter Marquardt), who put him there in the first place, by using a guitar case which carries a small arsenal of guns. At the same time, a young mariachi (Carlos Gallardo) arrives in the town looking for work, carrying his guitar case with his signature guitar.
Actors: Rafael Pérez Grovas (producer), Carlos Bravo y Fernández (actor), René Cardona (actor), Gregorio Casal (actor), Juan Garza (actor), Humberto Gurza (actor), Miguel Gurza (actor), Regino Herrera (actor), Miguel Gurza (miscellaneous crew), Antonio Raxel (actor), Humberto Gurza (miscellaneous crew), Germán Valdés (actor), Germán Valdés (actor), Ramón Valdés (actor), Rafael Pérez Grovas (writer),
Genres: Action, Adventure,Actors: Óscar J. Brooks (writer), Pancho Córdova (actor), Mario García 'Harapos' (actor), José Jasso (actor), Alberto Mariscal (actor), Roberto Ramírez Garza (actor), Germán Valdés (producer), Germán Valdés (actor), Ramón Valdés (actor), Federico Curiel (director), Yolanda Ciani (actress), Enrico C. Cabiati (composer), Alfredo Ruanova (writer), Marcelo Chávez (actor), Ana Bertha Lepe (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Eduardo Alcaraz (actor), Armando Arriola (actor), Armando Arriola (actor), Manuel Calvo (actor), Marcelo Chávez (actor), Marcelo Chávez (actor), Héctor Godoy (actor), Carlos Bravo y Fernández (actor), Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo (actor), Humberto Rodríguez (actor), Andrés Soler (actor), Andrés Soler (actor), Manuel Sánchez Navarro (actor), Ramón Sánchez (actor), Germán Valdés (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical,Actors: Armando Acosta (actor), Carlos Bravo y Fernández (actor), Marcelo Chávez (actor), Rafael Estrada (actor), Juan García (actor), Fernando de Fuentes hijo (producer), Germán Valdés (producer), Gilberto Martínez Solares (writer), Gustavo César Carrión (composer), Gilberto Martínez Solares (director), José W. Bustos (editor), William W. Claridge (miscellaneous crew), Germán Valdés (actor), Ramón Valdés (actor), Hernán Vera (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Marcelo Chávez (actor), Ramón Valdés (actor), Guillermo Hernández (actor), Joaquín García Vargas (actor), Juan García (actor), José María Linares-Rivas (actor), José Pardavé (actor), Francisco Reiguera (actor), Humberto Rodríguez (actor), Wolf Ruvinskis (actor), Fernando Soto (actor), Pompín Iglesias (actor), Germán Valdés (actor), Manuel 'Loco' Valdés (actor), Guillermo Álvarez Bianchi (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Eduardo Alcaraz (actor), Manuel 'Loco' Valdés (actor), Marcelo Chávez (actor), Victorio Blanco (actor), Víctor Manuel Castro (actor), Juan García (actor), Manuel Noriega (actor), Tito Novaro (actor), Ignacio Peón (actor), Andrés Soler (actor), Pedro de Aguillón (actor), Manuel Trejo Morales (actor), Germán Valdés (actor), Germán Valdés (actor), Hernán Vera (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Eduardo Alcaraz (actor), Armando Acosta (actor), Daniel Arroyo (actor), Marcelo Chávez (actor), Miguel Arenas (actor), Jaime Fernández (actor), Pascual García Peña (actor), Jesús Gómez (actor), Pompín Iglesias (actor), Agustín Lara (actor), Fernando Fernández (actor), José Luis Moreno (actor), José Muñoz (actor), Antonio Padilla 'Pícoro' (actor), Joaquín Pardavé (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Leonor Gómez (actress), Marcelo Chávez (actor), José Chávez (actor), Enedina Díaz de León (actress), Jesús Gómez (actor), Vicente Lara (actor), Margarito Luna (actor), Humberto Rodríguez (actor), Juan García (actor), Armando Arriola (actor), Wolf Ruvinskis (actor), Manuel Sánchez Navarro (actor), Germán Valdés (actor), Ramón Valdés (actor), Lupe Inclán (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Germán Valdés (actor), Manuel 'Loco' Valdés (actor), Ramón Sánchez (actor), Roberto Cobo (actor), Humberto Rodríguez (actor), Juan García (actor), Marcelo Chávez (actor), Jesús Gómez (actor), Pompín Iglesias (actor), José Jasso (actor), Vicente Lara (actor), José Luis Fernández (actor), Joaquín García Vargas (actor), Francisco Pando (actor), Ramón Valdés (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Romance,Actors: Rosalío Ramírez (composer), Gilberto Martínez Solares (director), Julián de Meriche (actor), Ramón Gay (actor), Juan Orraca (actor), Francisco Pando (actor), Francisco Reiguera (actor), Jorge Reyes (actor), Nicolás Rodríguez (actor), Germán Valdés (actor), Manuel 'Loco' Valdés (actor), Ramón Valdés (actor), Armando Velasco (actor), Rosita Quintana (actress), Jorge Bustos (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,When you're alone
And life is making you lonely
You can always go
Down town.
When you've got worries
All the noise and the hurry
Seems to hurt, I know.
Down town.
Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city,
Linger on the sidewalks where the neon signs are pretty.
How can you lose ?
The lights are much brighter there,
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
And go down town.
Things will be great when you're
Down town.
No finer place for sure,
Down town.
Everything's waiting for you.
Don't hang around
And let your problems surround you,
There are movie shows
Down town.
Maybe you know
Some little places to go
To where they never close,
Down town.
Just listen to the rhythm of the gentle bossa-nova,
You'll be dancing with them, too, before the night is over,
Happy again.
The lights are much brighter there,
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
And go down town.
Where all the lights are bright
Down town.
Waiting for you tonight
Down town.
You're gonna be all right now.
And you may find
Somebody kind
To help and understand you,
Someone who is just like you
And needs a gentle hand
To guide him along.
So maybe I'll see you there,
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares
And go down town.
Things will be great when you're
Down town.
Don't wait a minute more,
Down town.
Everything's waiting for you.