El Diablo

El Diablo (1990)

Genres - Western  |   Sub-Genres - Modern Western  |   Run Time - 115 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - PG13
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

In the made-for-cable El Diablo, Anthony Edwards plays a bespectacled Eastern schoolteacher who is bullied and cowed by the wild westerners all around him. Soon, however, he is forced to summon up his courage to expedite the rescue of his prettiest female student (M.C. Gainey), who has been kidnapped by the notorious bandit leader El Diablo (Robert Beltran). Louis Gossett Jr. is on hand as the down-to-earth gunslinger who teaches Edwards the rudiments of frontier survival. Coproduced and cowritten by John Carpenter, El Diablo debuted July 22, 1990, over the HBO pay-cable service.

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kidnapping, rescue, schoolteacher, gunfighter, journey, outlaw [Western], search, student, villain, Wild-West, damsel-in-distress, frontier, maniac, mild-mannered, Mexico