Girl of the Rio

Girl of the Rio

Tostado, the mighty! ...Dolores, the dancer-scorning, flouting, outwitting the best caballero in all Mexico!

NR 1932 · 78 min · ★ 5.6 · Comedy, Romance, Drama

A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover.

Directed by Herbert Brenon · Written by Gerald Beaumont

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