
April 8, 1908 · 118 years old
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.

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.

In South America, after Jeff Dawson and Dutch Peterson's oil rigs are dynamited by local bandits, the two partners resort to risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise money.

Gangster Vincent Canelli and bank robber Peter Manning escape from Death Row minutes before their execution by electric chair.

A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.

British Secret Service agent Major Anders is dispatched to Malta to investigate Professor Larsen, who has invented a powerful weapon of mass-destruction, a death ray machine on his island.

An outcast Confederate soldier redeems himself by defending a woman against bandits willing to kill for her goldmine claim.

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