Ammunition Smuggling on the Mexican Border Incidents of the Mexican Revolution (1914)

Around the film hang fascinating questions about border politics which Ill touch on in an introduction before the screening One of Eugene Bucks motivations for making the film may have been his rough crossexamination 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 friends murder just as he had testified Reenacting the crime on film may have been the best revengeand a way to honor the sacrifice of Deputy Ortiz a twentyyear police veteran and for the era a rare Mexican American lawman