A Mexican infant is given up by his mother as she wants a better life for her son. Now as the boy is a teenager, his Mexican mother wants him back. Nita Garcia agrees to Paladin's plan: he will bring the boy back to her but the boy will choose where he wants to live. Jose decides he will return to the Avery's. But Manuel Garcia, the boys father, a bandit, objects. You can figure out what happens. What makes no sense is Jose speaks no Spanish. He has spent all of his life with his adoptive parents and yet his English is heavily accented by a Spanish accent. The story has a strong moral to it but what was the director thinking? I suspect his prejudice comes through in believing a Mexican infant surrounded by American English speakers would somehow grow up to have an accent regardless of upbringing.
Review of Heritage of Anger
