Captain from Castile Trailer (1948)

Trailer for Captain from Castile.

In the spring of 1518, in Spain, nobleman Pedro de Vargas helps an Indian slave and his friend Coatl to escape from the cruel Diego de Silva and then he rescues the plebeian Catana Perez from two men of Diego de Silva. He goes to the inn where Catana works to explain why the sheets are torn up, and Pedro befriends Juan Garcia, a simple man that made fortune in Cuba. When he comes home, Pedro finds that Diego de Silva has used his political influence to accuse Pedro and his family of heretics and they are imprisoned. Diego's executioners torture and kill Pedro's twelve years old sister but Juan Garcia and Catana help Pedro and his the family to escape from prison: Pedro's parents go to Italy and Pedro, Juan and Catana go to Cuba and join Cortez' expedition to Mexico. They participate of the fall of the Aztec Empire in the beginning of the Spanish colonization of the New World.