Actress Marie DeForrest plays the lead female character, Raquel. Her topless scene in this film was a rarity for the 1930s.
This is in the fictionalized part of the film, not the documentary part. The locals know she has been talking to the man who has secretly been filming their rituals. They kill him and then abduct her from her home. She is taken by foot near the top of a mountain and stripped to the waist. They tie her wrists to a board and raise her a few feet from the ground, hanging by her wrists. She receives a brutal whipping as punishment.
This is the only part of the film that made people sit up in their seats and look in amazement. I saw this film in the early 1960s in a grindhouse theater. It is on DVD, but all of DeForrest's scenes are cut out.
This is in the fictionalized part of the film, not the documentary part. The locals know she has been talking to the man who has secretly been filming their rituals. They kill him and then abduct her from her home. She is taken by foot near the top of a mountain and stripped to the waist. They tie her wrists to a board and raise her a few feet from the ground, hanging by her wrists. She receives a brutal whipping as punishment.
This is the only part of the film that made people sit up in their seats and look in amazement. I saw this film in the early 1960s in a grindhouse theater. It is on DVD, but all of DeForrest's scenes are cut out.