This isn't the fiasco that I read about this in research. Certainly, a film about the Mexican revolution starring Veronica Lake should bring up some chuckles, but that would only have been the case had she been playing Empress Carlotta. Instead, she's playing an American woman, the daughter of a Mexican born business woman who married a white man and moved to the United States, leaving her mines in what she believed to be safe hands.
With both American countries involved in revolutions or civil wars, Lake and her mother (Fanny Schiller) choose to go to Mexico where they find protection from rebel Zachary Scott who is a Juarez supporter. Ultimately a swordfight in the mines between Scott and his rival for Lake (Arturo de Córdova) culminates in a more dangerous situation for Lake and her mother.
Comic relief is provided by Alfonso Bedoya as a bandit who really isn't a bandit, just Scott's buffoon sidekick. Lake and her mother learn the real reason why there is a revolution on in the first place, and have to deal with the natural disaster of a flood while trying to find out the truth about what's really going on behind the scenes. Pretty lavish for a Lippert film, and entertaining if a bit lacking in historical fact.
With both American countries involved in revolutions or civil wars, Lake and her mother (Fanny Schiller) choose to go to Mexico where they find protection from rebel Zachary Scott who is a Juarez supporter. Ultimately a swordfight in the mines between Scott and his rival for Lake (Arturo de Córdova) culminates in a more dangerous situation for Lake and her mother.
Comic relief is provided by Alfonso Bedoya as a bandit who really isn't a bandit, just Scott's buffoon sidekick. Lake and her mother learn the real reason why there is a revolution on in the first place, and have to deal with the natural disaster of a flood while trying to find out the truth about what's really going on behind the scenes. Pretty lavish for a Lippert film, and entertaining if a bit lacking in historical fact.