The Gaucho (1927)
November 21, 1927Release Date
The Gaucho (1927)
November 21, 1927Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Douglas Fairbanks
The Gaucho
Lupe Vélez
The Mountain Girl
Joan Barclay
The Girl of the Shrine
Eve Southern
The Girl of the Shrine
Nigel De Brulier
The Padre
F. Richard Jones
Director
Mary Pickford
The Virgin Mary
Tony Gaudio
Cinematographer
William Nolan
Editor
Albert MacQuarrie
Black Doom Victim
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Ruiz - The Usurper
Michael Vavitch
The Usurper's First Lieutenant
Theodore Reed
Manager of Operations
Charles Stevens
The Gaucho's First Lieutenant
Lewis R. Foster
Assistant Director
Richard Talmadge
Stunt Coordinator
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
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 It has been replaced by a spiritual fervor and an element of seething sexuality the likes of which has never been seen before in one of his productions.”