
Ammunition Smuggling on the Mexican Border
Western · Documentary · Drama
Overview
Around the film hang fascinating questions about border politics, which I’ll touch on in an introduction before the screening. One of Eugene Buck’s motivations for making the film may have been his rough cross-examination during his kidnappers’ first trials, in October 1913, when defense attorneys cast him as a confused and unreliable witness against idealistic freedom fighters. On film he could reproduce the pursuit, the shootouts, his kidnapping, and his friend’s murder just as he had testified. Reenacting the crime on film may have been the best revenge—and a way to honor the sacrifice of Deputy Ortiz, a twenty-year police veteran and, for the era, a rare Mexican American lawman.
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Eugene Buck
Eugene Buck
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Eugene Buck
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Candelario Ortiz
Candelario Ortiz
Benito Silva
Candelario Ortiz
Benito Silva
Tom Gardner
Tom Gardner
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Tom Gardner
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Ive White
Ive White
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Ive White
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Bruce Roberts
Bruce Roberts
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Bruce Roberts
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