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Veteran Director Henry Hathaway delivers every shock of the linear plot without striving for subtlety. Among the sweaty stereotypes encountered, Brian Keith rings true as an amiable peddler who teaches young Nevada how to shoot. Keith warns the lad to give up his search for the killers, or "root with them in the garbage." Nevada prefers to root, and finds plenty of raw material. A winsome Kiowa Indian prostitute (Janet Margolin) and a Cajun slattern (Suzanne Pleshette) lend immoral support before he finally corners and cripples the third and last gunman (Karl Maiden) after joining his band of cutthroats. Nevada...
...MIGUEL. Producer Robert Radnitz (Misty, Island of the Blue Dolphins) scores again with the sturdy tale of a Mexican-American lad (Pat Cardi) growing up on a sheep ranch...
...MIGUEL. Producer Robert Radnitz (Misty, Island of the Blue Dolphins) scores again with the sturdy tale of a Mexican-American lad (Pat Cardi) growing from boyhood to manhood on a sheep ranch in the Southwest...
...treats the hordes of youngsters who hound him for his autograph ("I remember how I felt about ballplayers when I was a kid"). Juan's father died when he was three ("Too much rum," explains Widow Marichal), and his mother took a dim view of the lad's fanaticism. She railed against his playing ball because it interfered with school and farm chores, tried to stop him from attending grownups' games for fear he would be hit by a foul ball. Luckily, Juan's older brother Gonzalo and his sister's husband, Prospero Villalona, were...
...does. The lover presses his suit with life-or-death urgency, disguising himself as the luckless lout who is supposed to perish by black magic after Lucrezia has downed a potion brewed of mandragola, or mandrake root, and spent the night with him. Once conquered, Lucrezia cherishes the lad's do-or-die passion, ultimately scores her own sexual coup over the hypocrisy shown in the affair by her cuckolded husband, her amoral mother and a venal priest...