Hot Spur

The movie starts with a pair of cowboys drinking whiskey in a small cantina as a guitar player/owner plays music. The cowboys flirt with the the waitress, but she blows them off. She can smell their attitude and doesn't want to be there, but she is forced by the owner to dance for them as guitar player begins to play again, a much less relaxed tune. As she dances, the cowboys get all hot and bothered, and they start grabbing and pawing the girl, with a clear goal in mind. Watching it all is the Mexican busboy/gopher/whatever. As they start to rape the waitress, he has flashbacks to when he was much younger and the boy was forced to watch three or four men rape his older sister. He tries to stop them, but is no more successful than he was with his sister. As they start to get down to it, their boss, the ranch owner, comes in breaks it up, and forces them to leave with him, their business unfinished. The Mexican sees a unique ring on the rancher's hand, and follows them out. The ranch owner and his hired help ride off to his ranch. A little bit later, the Mexican, who has followed them, rides up and asks for work, which they give him as a stableboy. The next day, the rancher's wife (Virginia Gordon) rides up and, after some discussion, she goes into the ranch house. Later on, in the evening, there is a little party going on with a three of local prostitutes in the ranch hand's bunkroom. Some softcore sex goes on, with some nudity, etc. Meanwhile, the Mexican sees the rancher go back into the house, and sneaks over to peek in the window. The rancher has a confrontation with his wife over her inability to produce a son for him. There is a lot of anger and resentment back and forth, as she spits and slaps at him as he insults her. To vent his frustration, he rips open her night dress. The Mexican leaves them to their argument, and returns to his loft in the barn, while the cowboys settle down for the evening. The Mexican falls asleep, and has a fairly graphic nightmare about his sister's rape. There are, littered throughout the movie, a fair number of scenes taking place at different points in the rape, her top getting torn off, her wrists tied in front of her as she is dragged/pulled over to a tree, and hung up by her wrists barely able to stand. She was pawed some more at this point by the rapists, and they tear off the remainder of her clothes for the most part, before letting her down to the ground and finishing the job. The rancher's wife goes out for a ride, and the Mexican, who has apparently ripped off some supplies and guns from the ranch, captures her, she tries to escape but she gets caught again, her clothes getting partly torn in the process. He ties her up and then takes her off to a cabin in the woods. He settles in, depositing her with her hands and legs tied loose behind her, then goes out and sets various traps and makes preparations for the inevitable posse to come looking. When he gets back, he finds her attempting to free herself, so he hogties her. About this time the rancher realizes she's been gone too long, and sends out his hands to find her. Eventually, the Mexican, who is haunted by the ordeal his sister went through, combined with her angry haranguing, attacks, strips her naked, and rapes her. After he's done, he ties her with her hands above her head as his sister's rapists did to her, and goes off to set more traps. One by one, a couple of the hands find her and try to rescue her, but he gets the drop on them and kills them, one of them stabbed in the back with a thrown knife as he was attempting to release the rancher's wife. The two remaining hands start shooting at the cabin, assuming that the rancher's wife is dead. The Mexican starts whipping the rancher's wife to make her scream, so they'll realize she's still alive. The two remaining hands stop shooting at the cabin, which allows the Mexican to run out and get to a rifle he'd smartly stashed outside the cabin, and shoots one of the remaining two hands. The last one, deciding discretion is the better part of valor, starts to run back to the horses, presumably to come back with more help. Unfortunately for him, in a narrow defile he encounters one of the traps, a bear trap, left by the Mexican, and his gun falls right at the edge of his reach. The Mexican comes along, chases off the horses, and apparently is going to leave him for dead, as he pleads for his life. The Mexican decides to show mercy, and relaxes the trap. For his consideration, the hand, now able to reach his gun, shoots him in the back, but, as he falls, the Mexican shoots and kills him. He stumbles back to the cabin, bleeding from a wound in his shoulder. The loose horses return to the ranch, and the rancher now comes out looking. At the cabin, where the Mexican has released the by now exhausted wife, tells her why this has all happened to her. One of the ones who raped his sister years ago was the rancher, who he recognized by the ring he wore, which the Mexican saw in the cantina. Hearing the rancher approach, and, figuring he was going to die from the bullet wound anyway, he runs out and faces the rancher outside the cabin. Meanwhile, the wife, struggles with, and gets loose, the knife that was in the back of the hand who tried to rescue her, and then goes over and lies back down, back towards the door, concealing the knife. Outside, she hears a shootout occurring, but just lays there, waiting. As the rancher comes in, her back is to him, and he reaches out to her, she whirls around and stabs him in the gut with the knife. He is surprised, and calls her name. She looks right at him and makes it clear that she intended to stab him, and not the Mexican, by stabbing him again. He dies on the spot, as she weakly, stumbling, stands up and leaves the cabin, the only survivor of the whole nightmare.