In the 1840s, Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta avenges his wife's death against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw.
Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for classic, black-and-white Westerns that feel like they were shot on a backlot, then sure. It's not reinventing the wheel, but Warner Baxter carries the thing with a kind of weary grace that’s hard to ignore. If you need your historical dramas to actually be, you know, a...
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William A. Wellman
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"Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for classic, black-and-white Westerns that feel like they were shot on a backlot, then sure. It's not reinventing the wheel, but Warner Baxter carries the thing with a kind of weary grace that’s hard to ignore. If you need your historical dramas to actually be, you know, accurate or nuanced, you’re going to hate this. It treats the Mexican-American border conflict like a light afternoon skirmish. The whole thing kicks off with Joaquin being a prett..."
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Rowland Brown, Joseph Calleia, C. Gardner Sullivan, Peter B. Kyne, James Kevin McGuinness, Howard Emmett Rogers, Melvin Levy, Lynn Starling, Walter Noble Burns, William A. Wellman
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