Savage Pampas (1945 film)

Savage Pampas (Pampa bárbara) is a 1945 Argentine historical film directed by Lucas Demare and Hugo Fregonese and starring Francisco Petrone, Luisa Vehil and Domingo Sapelli. The film's sets were designed by Germán Gelpi. The film is set in the nineteenth century in the Dry Pampas, when it represented a frontier between Argentine-controlled territory and areas still largely inhabited by Indians before the Conquest of the Desert extended Argentine control southwards. In 1966, Fregonese remade the film in English under the same title.

In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 24th position.

Synopsis
A tough captain of the Argentine Army doggedly battles a band of outlaws composed of a mixture of Indians and Argentine deserters.

Cast

 * Francisco Petrone
 * Luisa Vehil
 * Domingo Sapelli
 * Froilán Varela
 * María Esther Gamas
 * Judith Sulian
 * Roberto Fugazot
 * Margarita Corona
 * Juan Bono
 * María Concepción César
 * Pablo Cumo
 * Luis Otero
 * Jorge Molina Salas
 * Tito Alonso
 * René Múgica
 * Pedro Codina
 * Aurelia Ferrer
 * Francisco García Garaba
 * Raúl Luar
 * José Ruzzo
 * Rita Montero