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The Tango Cavalier Synopsis
Don Lawson, alias Don Armingo, is a member of the Secret Service who joins a group of smugglers at the Mexican border. As Don is about to make an arrest, the smugglers take flight, kidnapping his sweetheart, Doris Pomeroy, but Carmelita, a tango dancer in love with Don but in league with the smugglers, releases him. However, he rejects her amorous advances, and is forced to escape. Following Doris and her kidnappers in his airplane, he circles above the getaway car and plucks her from the tonneau cover just as it speeds over an embankment.
Into the Light Synopsis
A simple country girl, brutally mistreated by her stepfather, awakens first the sympathy, then the love, of The Boy. The Spider, who lusts after The Girl, makes a bargain with the stepfather and takes her to the city where, kept prisoner, she is soon broken in health and spirit. Cast out and near death, she is taken in by The Boy. Following the demise of The Spider, The Boy takes her to church, where he prays, and after many hours she is restored to health.
"The Tango Cavalier" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "Into the Light" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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