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. The story was written and created by Charles Davis,

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, and Doug Wilson. The film was shot in the

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and

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Plot

Juanita, a girl in a town that's populated by Hispanics, is raped and beaten. The only thing she says before falling into a deep coma is that her attacker is an outsider, a Gringo. Local Mexican-American Sheriff Vega arrests all three outsiders there are. All he can do is intimidating the prisoners so that one of them admits to being the attacker, or that the girl wake up to identify him. The girl dies, and her father prepares a lynch mob. The sheriff can't get any help from the state, and even Mendoza, his deputy, is unwilling to help him. The sheriff takes the prisoners out of the jail in a trip to the closest city where they can be processed. But the prisoners, an unstable kid, a brutish man and a coldly intelligent youngster have other plans.

Cast

– Manuel Vega * Aldo Ray – Joe Vorzyck * Tommy Sands – Mike Marain *

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– Lucas Barnes * Ned Romero - Mendoza *

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– Dolores *

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– Juanita *

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* * * 1967 films 1960s crime drama films American crime drama films Films about race and ethnicity Films set in New Mexico 1960s English-language films 1960s American films {{1960s-Western-film-stub