Prisoner 13

Colonel Carrasco’s wife Marta leaves him, taking their small son with her. Years later the boy, Juan, has grown into a well brought up young man. Promoted in the middle of the Mexican Revolution and open to a bribe, the colonel releases the revolutionary Felipe Martinez from his prison for money and asks that absolutely anyone be put in his place on the list for the firing squad. The man put in his place turns out to be his own son. When Marta hears, she races to the prison, and the colonel struggles to stop the order he gave himself. Fernando de Fuentes’s seventy six minute Mexican film was completed in 1933.