The Gaucho
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich with gold from the grateful worshipers. Ruiz, an evil and sadistic general, captures the city, confiscates the gold, and closes the shrine. But the Gaucho, the charismatic leader of a band of outlaws, comes to the rescue.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This Douglas Fairbanks crime adventure follows an antihero criminal who decides to fight against a cruel usurper of a local village. Box office returns were solid and reviews highlighted the against-type role of the Gaucho. Still, financial returns were not quite as strong as Fairbanks' previous films such as the Thief of Baghdad or The Black Pirate.
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The Gaucho (1927) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- F. Richard Jones
- Starring
- Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Vélez, Eve Southern, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Michael Vavitch, Nigel De Brulier, Mary Pickford, Albert MacQuarrie
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