Director 1908 - 1987

Hugo Fregonese

Mendoza, Argentina

Hugo Geronimo Fregonese (April 8, 1908 in Mendoza – January 11, 1987 in Tigre) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter who worked both in Hollywood and his home country.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

13 titles

Los monstruos del terror

Tulio Demicheli, Hugo Fregonese 1970 1h 27m

Aliens from a dying world plot to conquer earth by preying on man's superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various earth monsters, including the werewolf, Frankenstein's monster, the mummy Tao-Tet, and the vampire Count de Meirhoff.

Old Shatterhand

Hugo Fregonese 1964 2h 2m

Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.

Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse

Hugo Fregonese 1964 1h 32m

The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

Marco Polo

Piero Pierotti, Hugo Fregonese 1962 1h 35m 1.0

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

Seven Thunders

Hugo Fregonese 1957 1h 40m 7.5

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.

The Raid

Hugo Fregonese 1954 1h 23m 3.0

A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.

Black Tuesday

Hugo Fregonese 1954 1h 20m 8.0

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.

Man in the Attic

Hugo Fregonese 1953 1h 22m 7.5

After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper.

Blowing Wild

Hugo Fregonese 1953 1h 30m 7.0

Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.