The Gaucho (1927)

The Gaucho (the official full title of the film is Douglas Fairbanks as The Gaucho) is a 1927 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Vélez set in Argentina. The lavish adventure extravaganza, filmed at the height of Fairbanks' box office clout, was directed by F. Richard Jones with a running time of 115 minutes.

Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance considers the film "a near masterwork" and "an anomaly among his [Fairbanks’] works.", Vance also considers it a "daring departure, the film is an effort of unanticipated darkness in tone, setting, and character. The spirit of adolescent boyish adventure, the omnipresent characteristic of his prior films, is noticeably absent. It has been replaced by a spiritual fervor and an element of seething sexuality the likes of which has never been seen before in one of his productions.”

Synopsis

Dans les Andes argentines, l'intervention de la Sainte Vierge permet à une jeune fille tombée d'une falaise d'échapper à la mort. À l'endroit même de l'apparition est érigé un sanctuaire, autour duquel se construit la ville du miracle. Devenue adulte, la miraculée continue à veiller sur le site, mais dans le même temps, un nommé Ruiz tente de faire main basse sur la ville et ses richesses. Mais ses plans sont contrecarrés par l'arrivée d'un aventurier surnommé Le Gaucho, qui s'amourache d'une jeune femme connue comme La fille de la montagne ...

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