(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the historically unjustified name Hollywood has given to the turgid tragedy of Joaquin Murieta. He was a simple peon whose fate, according to this picture, was typical of all California Mexicans after los Americanos usurped the State in 1846.
A happy young farmer, Joaquin (Warner Baxter),runs wild after his farm has been seized, his young wife (Margo) raped, his brother lynched, himself flogged. Gathering a huge band of outlaws, he ravages the State from end to end, not, like Robin Hood, to protect the common people, but solely for bloody revenge. Result is the goriest picture of the...
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