Ramon A. Estella
2021Magkaibang Lahi
Ramon A. Estella, Nardo Vercudia
Corazon Noble, Ely Ramos
A story about two sisters, Corazon del Rio, a former movie star before the war, and Nenita. Cora was among the victims of Japanese atrocities during the last few weeks before the fall of Manila in 1945. It tackled the controversial and almost taboo interracial relationships that occasionally developed between American officers or G.I.s and Filipino women.
Magkaibang Lahi
Anak Pontianak
Ramon A. Estella
Hashimah Yon, Jins Shamsudin
"Anak Pontianak" aka "Son of Pontianak' in 1958 starring the Shaw studio's leading lady Hashimah Yon and its male heartthrob Jins Shamsuddin. This horror film also featured a host of supernatural beings,besides the Pontianak and her werewolf son there was also a Polong (in the film the creature was shown as a kind of Mr Hyde alter-ego of one of the characters) and a Hantu Ular (Snake Ghost).
Son of the Vampire
Mata Hari
Ramon A. Estella
Maria Menado
'Mata Hari' was Malay Film Productions’ second war movie based on the Japanese invasion of Malaya/Singapore in 1941-42, released a few months after the resounding success of Lamberto Avellana and P. Ramlee’s 'Sergeant Hassan'. Written by Abdul Razak (who did the scripts for the 'Pontianak' film series) and directed by the prolific Ramon Estella, the movie stars beauty queen Maria Menado (of Pontianak fame) as ‘Matahari’, the daughter of a kampong headman who is captured by the Japanese. She witnesses the atrocities committed by the invaders, who tortured her father to death and rounded up innocent women to become prostitutes and mistresses for their commanders. Not wanting to cower to the enemy, Matahari (which means the sun in Malay and was also the name of a real-life WWI German spy) decides to form and lead a guerrilla force to fight the Japanese.
The Rape of Malaya
Raja Bersiong
Ramon A. Estella
Maria Menado, Eddy Ali
Based on a Malay folklore, it tells the story of a King who carve the blood of men after his chef accidentally cut his finger and mixed the blood into the King's meal. The King was satisfied with the meal and promoted the cook of rank. The chef honestly tell the King that his blood got mixed up into his food due to chopping ingredients. From that moment he began to indulge with the taste of human blood and grew fangs; thus his own people soon become his next victims.
Raja Bersiong
Đất Lành
Ramon A. Estella
An officer from the North penetrated to the South to operate. Exposed and hunted, he fled into the barrel car of a son of the mayor. Accident, car fire, the mayor's son is dead. The father back the wrong man officers with his child, because two youth in this capital the same from the face to the physique. Living next to the mayor, the officials gradually turned by the morality and kindness of him.
The Good Earth
Samseng
Ramon A. Estella
Aziz Jaafar, Jins Shamsudin
Samseng’ is an action-drama about two brothers. Daud, the elder brother, is serving a prison sentence for forgery and the younger Ahmad is a gangster who specialises in extortion and robbery. Daud prevents a jail-break and saves the life of a prison warden for which his sentence is reduced. After leaving prison, Daud notices that gangsterism is rampant in the town and decides to join the police force as a detective.
Samseng
