A Mexican Courtship (1912)

• 46%
• 1912
• Drama
• Romance
• Wilbert Melville
• Romaine Fielding
• Edna Payne
• Burton L. King

Within the sunny little Mexican City of Juarez, Alonzo, the famous bull-fighter, is to match his skill against the bull from Chihuahua. Pretty Dolores wanders one day without the Plaza El Torres, hoping to get one peep at the wonderful animals. Juan, a young Mexican employed at the Plaza, sees the girl and attracted by her beauty, offers to show her the bulls. He takes her within the Plaza and shows her all the interesting sights. The young people are mutually interested in each other and it proves a case of love at first sight. Alonzo also meets the girl and proposes for her hand. While Dolores loves Juan, she is quickly given to understand by her parents that Alonzo is a much more desirable match and that she must give up poor Juan. This Dolores reluctantly agrees to do. Finally the eventful day arrives. Alonzo, however, reaches the Plaza far too drunk to enter the arena and the management is in despair. The time for the fight to start having passed, the crowd begins to hoot and howl. The manager is at his wits' end. Young Juan volunteers to take Alonzo's place and kill the bull. The manager laughs at him but finally with no other alternative and impressed by the lad's earnestness, he consents and Juan, garbed in all the regalia as a matador, enters the ring. He kills the bull and at one bound secures fame and riches. The parents of Dolores are quick to realize that the famous matador is a very different proposition from the poverty-stricken hanger-on of the Plaza and the newly created bullfighter is happy in his victory and his love.