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meets King Del Rey, who was once the leader of a mariachi band, until he got a brain tumor. She feels that he is empathetic and might help her escape. It is revealed that the woman’s father is a corrupt Texas politician, and her husband is the president of the Red Devil
Battery Company. From an affair she had with a Dallas politician, she has learned things that are dangerous for her to know about the assassination, and a secret plot to overthrow the government. King hopes to get healthy and team up with his daughter, La Nina, a singer. It is too late for the two characters, King and the Woman. She is not strong enough to escape her bonds, and King’s daughter, who is the lover of a gangster from Chicago, knows her father’s days are numbered. King attempts to save the Woman, but he has a stroke and dies. In the end, she is grabbed by a gang of homeless young men, and taken off as the booty of their triumph, and to a world that is destroying itself.
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400:Camino Real
143:WPA Theater
69:Katy Jurado
1124:1975 plays
1118:Categories
344:Auto-da-FĂ©
215:2008-07-07
149:References
818:Baby Doll
687:Baby Doll
287:Works by
137:In 1996,
81:Ed Sherin
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95:In 1977
46:Synopsis
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