The King of Tango trades his guitar for a gun in this 65-minute fever dream of passion and revenge.
Acting
Gardel's smoldering charisma that launched a thousand tangos
Direction
Gasnier's breakneck pacing before the Hays Code killed fun
Sound
Gardel's voice—arguably the first global Latin music superstar
Director
Louis J. Gasnier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gardel made this during his Hollywood exile after rejecting Paramount's contract demands—he wanted creative control and got it, briefly.
This is one of only four surviving Gardel sound films; most of his Paramount output was lost in vault fires, making every frame archaeological gold.
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