Tepepa
1968 film directed by Giulio Petroni
Tepepa, also known as Blood and Guns, is an Italian epic Zapata Western film starring Tomas Milian and Orson Welles. The film was directed by Giulio Petroni. It was co-produced with Spain, where the film was released with the title Tepepa... Viva La Revolución.
Plot
The government of "comrade" Madero does not satisfy the peon Tepepa, who continues his guerilla
battle as a revolutionary, against the government troops together with a group of faithful fighters.
Tepepa is feeling mocked by the ex-revolutionary Madero, who is now head of state. Tepepa finds
himself several times facing the fearsome chief of police, Colonel Cascorro, and is constantly persecuted by an English doctor,
Henry Price. Dr. Price is eager to avenge a girl from a rich family, with whom he was in love, and whom
Tepepa raped, causing her to commit suicide.
During the last fight Cascorro finally manages to wound Tepepa, who has escaped him several times,
but in the decisive battle Cascarro is killed by the revolutionary.
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