5/10
La Cucaracha
24 November 2020
As you can gather from the title the setting for this film is the Mexican Revolution of a little over a century ago. Gilbert Roland is a commander in the service of Pancho Villa and Villa is getting rather low on funds. So he and his men which include American adventurer Rory Calhoun rob a bank and come away with a lot of gold pesos.

Roland is moved by the ideals of the revolution as is Shelley Winters an American schoolteacher. But Calhoun is looking out for number one. He's a mercenary who fights for pay and there's a lot of lucre that he and Roland have now. Winters may be a revolutionary, but Calhoun gets her mojo going.

In the end it's Calhoun and Roland against a lot of soldiers who want the gold too for various reasons.

Nice routine action film with characters we've all seen a zillion times over.
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