Wyoming cowboys crash a fiesta, murder happens, and someone gets WHIPPED. Silent era didn't play nice.
Jack Bannister returns to his home in South America, bringing with him some Wyoming cowboys. At a fiesta, he meets Menocal, an old friend, who is murdered moments later by Bud Latham, an American bandit under the protection of the local sheriff, a rascal named Berengo. Jack sets out after Latham and finds the killer trailing another outlaw, José Remado. Jack catches up with Latham and whips him in a brutal fight.
Stunts
Jack Hoxie's brutal whip-fight choreography, raw and unpolished
Practical Effects
Authentic 1925 South American location work, rare for the era
Director
Clifford Smith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jack Hoxie was a real rodeo champion before becoming a Western star, which explains why his fights look genuinely painful.
This 'South American Western' was part of a brief 1920s trend to export cowboy tropes internationally before the genre calcified into Monument Valley clichés.
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