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A Mexican Tragedy
(1913) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Wilbert Melville
Cast: Henry King [General Laredo], Velma Whitman [Teresa Terrazar, the daughter], William Rhyno (William Ryno) [Manuel Terrazar, the father], Guillermo Calles [Miguel Terrazar, the son], Ray Gallagher [Sancho]
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. / Released 23 September 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Manuel Terrizar, inn-keeper in a small Mexican town, professes to be in sympathy with the revolution; his son, Miguel, joins the insurrectos. Teresa, Terrizar’s daughter, and Gen. Laredo, leader of the revolutionists, are sweethearts. The federal government sends an agent, Sancho, to Terrizar, offering a large reward if he will accomplish the secret assassination of Laredo. Terrizar’s greed for gold triumphs and he agrees to try the scheme. Terrizar invites Gen. Laredo to the inn that night for Teresa’s betrothal feast. Laredo accepts. Later, Teresa, while serving refreshments, overhears some details of the plot, and terrified, tries to leave the inn to warn Laredo. She is seized by Terrizar and locked in a side room, from which it is impossible to escape or send word to her lover. Laredo, accompanied only by Miguel as a guard, arrives for the feast. Teresa is released and told by her father that his life will be in danger if she warns Laredo. The girl sits through the feast unable to speak for fear that in saving her lover she will sacrifice her father. Miguel is plied with wine to get him out of the way. Then the boy is carried upstairs and dumped into the room at the right of the landing. Miguel, aroused, later staggers into the hallway as if to go downstairs, then changes his mind and entering the room at the left of the landing, falls across the bed in a stupor. The feast over, Terrizar persuades Laredo to spend the rest of the night at the inn and conducts him to and sees him enter the room at the left of the landing. Teresa, at the last moment, tries to warn Laredo, but she is bound and gagged. In the left room Laredo finds Miguel, tries in vain to arouse him, then decides to find another bed. He goes into the hallway, finds the opposite door open and retires in the empty room at the right of the landing. The plot to kill Laredo falls on Terrizar. He draws his knife, ascends the stairs and blowing out the hall lamp, enters the room at the left of the landing. A moment later he returns to the drinking room, announcing that he has killed Laredo. In the morning Laredo, ignorant of events, descends the stairs to the room where the conspirators are sleeping at the tables. The conspirators are terrified, believing that Laredo's ghost is walking. When he speaks to them they realize there has been a slip. Wildly, Terrizar rushes upstairs and into the left room, where he finds that he has killed his son.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Mexicans
Listing updated: 13 December 2024.
References: Website-IMDb.
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