Wrongfully hanged? Check. Escaped? Check. Now he's hunting the real killer while everyone hunts him.
A man named Tony is captured riding the horse of Lee Corey, a missing delivery man for a local mining company. Tony claims to have bought the horse from two men, but the sheriff believes he has murdered Corey and stolen the horse. Tony is sent to the gallows, but escapes hanging with the help of Corey's mistress and sets out to find the real killer.
Direction
Mariscal's lean, mean storytelling — no scene wasted
Acting
Hugo Stiglitz smolders as the wronged man with nothing to lose
Editing
Taut 85 minutes that modern blockbusters forgot existed
Director
Alberto Mariscal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Uno para la horca represents Mexico's overlooked contribution to the 1970s Western revival, when directors like Mariscal brought fresh political bite to familiar genre trappings.
Hugo Stiglitz became a cult figure in Mexican cinema before Quentin Tarantino named a character after him in Inglourious Basterds — this is prime Stiglitz brooding material.
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