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Carmen Revilla (born 1893) was a Mexican peasant who lived in the small village of Santa Poco in Baja California during the Mexican Revolution.

Biography[]

In 1916, the bandit known as El Guapo and his gang collect tribute from the Mexican village of Santa Poco. Carmen, searched for someone who can rescue her townspeople. Visiting a village church, she saw a silent film featuring The Three Amigos, a trio of gunfighters who protect the vulnerable. Believing them to be real heroes, Carmen sent a telegram asking them to come and stop El Guapo.

In Tijuana, Carmen picked up the Amigos and takes them to the village, where they are pampered in the best house in town. The next morning, when El Guapo's men raided the village, the Amigos did a Hollywood-style stunt show that left the men bemused. The bandits rode off, making the villagers think they had defeated the enemy. The village thrown a victory party for the Amigos. The next morning, El Guapo and his gang came to Santa Poco and call them out, but they thought it was another show. After Lucky was shot, they realized they were confronting real bandits and beg for mercy, explaining that they were harmless actors. El Guapo decided they were not worth killing, ordered the village looted, and kidnaped Carmen. The Amigos left Santa Poco in disgrace.

At his hideout, El Guapo prepared for his 40th birthday party, when he would accept a shipment of weapons from the German and then bed Carmen. The Amigos found the hideout by following the German's plane and swang in from the outer wall with mixed results. Lucky was immediately captured and chained in a dungeon, Dusty crashed into Carmen's room, and Ned ended up suspended from a piñata.

Lucky freed himself, but Dusty and Ned were discovered and hold captive. The German, having idolized Ned's quick-draw and gun-spinning pistol skills in childhood, challenged him to a shootout. Ned killed the German and Lucky holds El Guapo at gunpoint long enough for Carmen and the Amigos to escape in the German's plane.

Returning to Santa Poco with El Guapo's army in pursuit, the Amigos rally the villagers to stand up for themselves with their best talent, sewing. The bandits arrived and were shot at by Amigos from all sides, forcing them to retreat as El Guapo took a fatal wound. The villagers, all dressed as Amigos, gather around him. He complimented the Three Amigos on their cleverness, then shot Lucky in the foot before dying.

The villagers offered the Amigos all the money they had, but the Amigos refused it with: "Our reward is that justice has been done." They then rode off into the sunset.

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