History Film / HotSpur

* DrivenToSuicide: Carlo's sister committed suicide because she could not bear the shame of being raped. Following [[KillEmAll the bloodbath at the end of the film]], SoleSurvivor Susan kills herself.

* KillEmAll: All of O'Hare's men have been killed by Carlo. Carlo is killed by O'Hare. O'Hare gets stabbed to death by his wife Susan [[SelfOffense in a case of mistaken identity]]. Susan then [[DrivenToSuicide kills herself]].

* DrivenToSuicide: Carlo's sister committed suicide because she could not bear the shame of being raped. Following [[KillEmAll the bloodbath at the film]], SoleSurvivor Susan kills herself.

* ATasteOfTheLash: Carlo flogs the naked Susan as part of his revenge.

* BearTrap: Carlo plants a bear trap on the trail leading to the cabin where he is holding Susan. Ton steps in it while fleeing Carlo and breaks his leg.

* RevengeByProxy: Carlo kidnaps O'Hare's wife Susan and forces her to endure all of the things that O'Har had done to his sister.

* FlashbackNightmare: Carlo has nightmares in which he revisits his sister's rape, which he had been ForcedToWatch when he was 11 years old. Sometimes, he awakes [[CatapultNightmare sittoing bolt upright]].

* ATastOfTheLash: Carlo flogs the naked Susan as part of his revenge.

In 1863 in a Mexican cantina in border country, Carlo, a young Mexican, is forced to watch a group of American ranch hands, led by Wes and Jerry, humiliate and repeatedly rape his 17-year-old sister. The last man to rape her is Jason O'Hare, owner of a large Arizona cattle ranch. Carlo's sister dies as a result of the attack, and he is haunted by the thought of cowboys mounting her as they would a horse. Six years later, Carlo undertakes his revenge. He gets a job as a stableboy on O'Hare's ranch, but Susan, Jason's voluptuous wife, will not let a Mexican near her horse. She washes the horse herself, and in her clinging clothing she excites onlookers. The ranch hands then cavort with some Mexican prostitutes, arousing Jason to the point that he forces himself on his wife. Carlo watches and remembers once more his sister's cruel rape. He is thrown off the ranch that night by Tom and Wes but the next day returns to kidnap Susan. Telling her about Jason's crime, he takes her to a mine shaft in the hills, where he rapes her. Carlo deliberately has left clues leading to the mine, and Jason sends his men in pursuit. The men find Susan nude, hanging by her wrists; and Carlo manages to shoot or stab all of them but is himself wounded. Jason arrives to find all his men dead and Susan still hanging. Carlo taunts him, and in the final shootout with Jason, Carlo dies. Susan manages to cut herself free and, in blind fury, stabs Jason, mistaking him for Carlo, then turns the knife on herself.

* BearTrap: carlo plants a bear trap on the trail leading to the cabin where he is holding Susan.

* GrievousBottleyHarm: Carlo gets a bottle broken over his head while trying to pull the cowhands off his sister in the cantina.

* ShamefulStrip: Carlo does this as part of his humiliation of Susan after he kidnaps her.

* ConvnientlyPlacedSharpThing: When Susan is tied up in the mining shack, she is able to grab a knife off the table with her teeth and drop it on the floor, then get it with her hands and use it to saw through her bonds.

* HeirClubForMen: During their argument, Jason O'Hara bitterly taunts his wife Susan that he has given her everything she ever wanted, but she has failed to give him the one thing he wants: a son.

* CatapultNightmare: Carlo wakes from a FlashbackNightmare of his sister being raped by sitting bolt upright in the stall where he is sleepping.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The ranch hands cavorting with the Mexican prostitutes in the bunkhouse make the two girls kiss and caress each other while they watch on in enjoyment.