BODYGUARD (1966): TOUGHT MAN FOR A TOUGH JOB (Literary Song-Movie Magazine, February 1, 1966)

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Source:  Literary Song-Movie Magazine, February 1, 1966

(From the magazine collection courtesy of Simon Santos, Video 48)

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BATANG ANGUSTIA (1965)

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Source:  Screen Stardom Magazine

August 1965

(Courtesy of Simon Santos/Video 48)

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A DEADLY GUY (ASIONG SALONGA, LSP) (Literary Song-Movie Magazine, February 28, 1961)

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Source:  Literary Song-Movie Magazine, February 28, 1961

Courtesy of Simon Santos, Video 48

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HABAGAT SA TAG-ARAW (1961) ( PRETTY BOY MEETS ASIONG SALONGA, Literary Song Movie Magazine, April 30, 1961)

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Source:  Literary Song-Movie Magazine, April 30, 1961

Courtesy of Simon Santos, Video 48

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ASIONG SALONGA (1961)

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Source:  Literary Song-Movie Magazine, February 15, 1961

Courtesy of Simon Santos, Video 48

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JOSEPH ESTRADA IS DECLARED BEST ACTOR OF 1984 FOR HIS ROLE IN GERON BUSABOS (Movie Confidential, April 1965)

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Source:  Movie Confidential, April 1965

(From the mag collection courtesy of Simon Santos, Video 48

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BOX-OFFICE KINGS (Literary Song-Movie Magazine, January 6, 1963)

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Source:  Literary Song-Movie Magazine, January 6, 1963

(Courtesy of Simon Santos, Video 48)

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JOSEPH ESTRADA: BUSINESS IS HIS BUSINESS (by Ross F. Celino, Jr., Screen Stardom, 1967)

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Source:  Screen Stardom, Vol. IV, No. 6

(from the mag collection courtesy of Teena)

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ANG GITING NG PILIPINO (Tagumpay Magazine, December 21, 1966)

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Source:  Tagumpay Magazine

December 21, 1966

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A HAPPY VISIT (The Weekly Nation Magazine, July 17, 1967)

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Source:  The Weekly Nation Magazine

July 17, 1967

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KUNG MAY GUY SI ERAP, MAY VILMA SI RONNIE (by Bee Kay Jay, Bulaklak Magazine, February 5, 1973)

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Article by Bee Kay Jay

Bulaklak Magazine, February 5, 1973

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ERAP: FIGHTING A LONELY WAR (by Ricardo F. Lo, Expressweek, November 30, 1978)

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Source:  Expressweek, November 30, 1978

Article written by Ricardo F. Lo

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ITO ANG PILIPINO (Emar Pictures, Release Date: December 27, 1966)

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Article by Ricardo S. Sayas

Grafikfilms Photorevue Magazine, December 31, 1966

(from the magazine collection courtesy of 

Tina Arguelles Liwanag)

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KUMANDER ALIBASBAS (1981)

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"KUMANDER ALIBASBAS" (1981)

Production:  JE Productions

Direction:  Augusto Buenaventura

Stars:  Joseph Estrada, Perla Bautista, Suzette Ranillo, Paquito Diaz, Ruel Vernal

(Movie Ad courtesy of Simon Santos, Video 48)

Ang tunay na Kumander Alibasbas (Cesareo Manarang) nasa gitna, katabi ang dalawang peryodista na nakipagtagpo at nakipanayam sa kanya sa kanyang kublihan sa bundok ng Arayat.  Nasa likuran ang kanyang mga bodyguard.

Ang balita sa pahayagang TALIBA (Pebrero 3, 1966) ng pagkapatay kay Alibasbas at 9 pang Huk na kanyang mga tagasunod.

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FILM REVIEW: BUHAY SA BUHAY (1965), "CINEMATOGRAPHER'S PRIDE"

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"BUHAY SA BUHAY!"

Production:  Emar Pictures

Cast:  Susan Roces, Joseph Estrada, Paquito Diaz

Direction:  Armando Garces

FILM REVIEW:  CINEMATOGRAPHER'S PRIDE

BUHAY SA BUHAY, in Eastman color that may not be flaming as the movie's advertising proclaims but in clear, clean, and often striking photographic detail, is the best example that, technically, Filipino films are in general as good as any foreign-made and processed picture.

Felipe Sacdalan's competent hand and functioning imagination are evident in frame after frame of Joseph Estrada fleeing from gunmen and gumshoes, Susan Roces fleeing from Joseph Estrada, Joseph Estrada and Susan Roces fleeing from Oscar Keesee, Oscar Keesee fleeing from no one, and Susan Roces finally fleeing to Joseph Estrada.  The moving shots of the countryside are alive and full of interesting detail, too, as in the photographing of fight sequences and night time raids.

The Buhay Sa Buhay photographer's pride, however, should really consist of the various angles and emotional attitudes he has captured of the love story between Estrada and Susan.

A convict is taken out of Muntinlupa penitentiary, Joseph Estrada escapes when the truck he is riding with the prison guards overturns in a ditch near Badman's Paquito Diaz's territory.  As it turns out, Diaz and his two brothers and father (Oscar Keesee) has been responsible for Estrada's imprisonment by goading him to kill in revenge for the murder of his father, brother, and bride-to-be.  A rich and powerful clan, Oscar Keesee's family and hired gunmen start to track down escaped convict Estrada.  The desperate hero decides to take Susan Roces, a doctor and the fiancee of Paquito Diaz, as hostage, and chains her wrist to his.  Chained not by fate, by hatred, by love, or by evil men, but by mere necessity, Estrada the ruthless and Rocess the innocent go their brief romantic way.

Love develops as the doctor knows more of the ex-convict's life and character, and this is what Photographer Sacdalan makes capital use of for his charming forest romance scenes and final clinching drama.

In between, there are the habitual fistfights, gunfights, and roarfights.  When not being bothered by three policemen who keep popping in and out of inopportune senes with inopportune words, Oscar Keesee is riled by the bumbling stupidity of his coconut palm leaf fan carrier and folding chair attendant.  Forcibly comic and faintly remisniscent of pre-war landlord film types,  Keesee's role is the most memorable in Buhay Sa Buhay -- with perhaps the exception of his son who is conscience-stricken over his brothers' and father's ruthlessness and who finally brings on the catharsis that ends the family's supremacy and the haunted flight of Estrada and Roces.

Other technical aspects of Buhay Sa Buhay appear exceptionally good, as the sound mixing which eliminates the harshness and overloudness of most Tagalog films.

Armando Garces created this movie, and he should be credited with having chosen some of the best technicials for the film.  The best moneymaking stars, too, Joseph Estrada and Susan Roces, who are paired for the first time.

- Film Review on "Spotlight" by Ophelia San Juan

  The Weekly Nation, December 1965

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JOSEPH ESTRADA (Jingle Extra Hot, March 17, 1980)

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Article written by Gil E. Villasana

Jingle Extra Hot Magazine, March 17, 1980

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THE MANILA CONNECTION (1974)

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The Manila Connection (1974)

(JE Productions, starring Joseph Estrada, Rosemarie, George Estregan, Anna Gonzales, Paquito Diaz, Leopoldo Salcedo, directed by Cesar Gallardo)

  

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DATELINE CHICAGO: ARREST THE NURSE KILLER (1976)

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Dateline Chicago:  Arrest the Nurse Killer! (1976)

(JE Productions, starring Joseph Estrada, Pilar Pilapil, Marilyn Herrs, Garret Blake, J.C. Marshall, Debbie Brinson, directed by Cesar Gallardo)

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Article by Sister Agnetia Raval

Panorama Magazine, December 26, 1976

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MAMANG SORBETERO (1979)

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Jingle Extra Hot Magazine, December 28, 1979

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JOSEPH ESTRADA: A DAY IN ERAP'S HIDEAWAY (Expressweek, January 10, 1980)

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Article by Ronald K. Constantino

Expressweek, January 10, 1980

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