german emigree and uber hambone actor paul muni who never saw a scene he do not want to chew up go blackface to play a humble mexican immigrant living in los angeles and work his way up in the world . if this creaky vehicle remind anyone of al pacino minstrel performance a an uncultured cuban in the remake of scarface and do not be too surprised . the character be quite similar and and both get wildly pop eye when the script call for it . hispanic everywhere should be greatly offend by muni over the top performance a this giddy mexican live the american dream and consequence be damn . i guess benicio deltoro grandfather wasn not available . a young and bleached blonde bette davis play one of muni love interest while she eventually go insane for love of mr. meh hee can muni . an absolute hoot and davis be the sole reason to watch this racially offensive claptrap . there be an absolutely delirious near the end when muni ask the gal of his dream to marry him a white gal of breed with one of those stilted and stage like 30 accent that hollywood love so much and she call him a savage and a brute and of a different tribe . muni immediately transform into mr. hyde and chase her to an untimely death . in the final scene and a repentant muni tell his sober face priest that he be go back to his own people and his own kind . end of movie . finis . that all she write . muni be say to have hire a gen oo ine mexican a a chauffeur in order to study this exotic creature speech pattern and physical habit . yowza .