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''The Wetback Hound'' is a 1957 short film directed by Janet and Larry Lansburgh.
The film focuses on a hound dog named Paco. Paco lives with some Mexican ranchers in Sonora, where he is employed as a hunting dog who hunts mountain lions. Mountain lions are a scourge against ranchers, but Paco has a hard problem focusing on his work. Instead, Paco keeps running off and chasing after harmless deer.
One day a mountain lion escapes when Paco gets distracted by a deer and the rest of the pack follows Paco. The abuse that Paco takes from his masters leads him to run away. Eventually Paco winds up crossing a river into the United States--hence the racist name of the movie--where he is adopted by some American ranchers, and makes a surprising new friend.
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!!Tropes:
* AllDesertsHaveCacti: Justified in that the first part of the film is in Sonora, where saguaro cacti are found. Naturally the movie has to have a shot of Paco making his way through some cacti.
* InterspeciesAdoption: Paco befriends a baby deer whose mother was killed by a mountain lion. He protects the fawn as it grows, even carrying over a bottle of formula in his teeth for the baby to drink from.
* {{Narrator}}: There's no dialogue, only a narrator who tells the story of Paco the hound dog.
* TimeSkip: A four-month time skip finds the baby fawn having lost its white spots and beginning to grow antlers.
* TitleDrop: 1950s racism, as Pablo is crossing over into the United States.
--> "Paco doesn't know it, but he's about to become a wetback!"
* {{Xenofiction}}: The story of a hound dog that befriends and protects a baby deer.
The film focuses on a hound dog named Paco. Paco lives with some Mexican ranchers in Sonora, where he is employed as a hunting dog who hunts mountain lions. Mountain lions are a scourge against ranchers, but Paco has a hard problem focusing on his work. Instead, Paco keeps running off and chasing after harmless deer.
One day a mountain lion escapes when Paco gets distracted by a deer and the rest of the pack follows Paco. The abuse that Paco takes from his masters leads him to run away. Eventually Paco winds up crossing a river into the United States--hence the racist name of the movie--where he is adopted by some American ranchers, and makes a surprising new friend.
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!!Tropes:
* AllDesertsHaveCacti: Justified in that the first part of the film is in Sonora, where saguaro cacti are found. Naturally the movie has to have a shot of Paco making his way through some cacti.
* InterspeciesAdoption: Paco befriends a baby deer whose mother was killed by a mountain lion. He protects the fawn as it grows, even carrying over a bottle of formula in his teeth for the baby to drink from.
* {{Narrator}}: There's no dialogue, only a narrator who tells the story of Paco the hound dog.
* TimeSkip: A four-month time skip finds the baby fawn having lost its white spots and beginning to grow antlers.
* TitleDrop: 1950s racism, as Pablo is crossing over into the United States.
--> "Paco doesn't know it, but he's about to become a wetback!"
* {{Xenofiction}}: The story of a hound dog that befriends and protects a baby deer.
