Filmed south of the boarder and on the downward slope of her career, in 'Stronghold' Veronica Lake plays a widow returning to her native Mexico (yeah right) from a civil war ravaged America. She is immediately kidnaped on the order of a revolutionary Zachary Scott, with whom she gradually, but also rather suddenly, falls in love. An awkward production the movie really is, generally speaking, awful. The first twenty minutes of the movie is very exposition heavy and employs a narrator to provide historical context and backstory, that device is then dropped for the rest of the feature. The film ranges from dull to painful save for a gloriously clichéd and silly ending stolen from 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'. *
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