The Trumpet Blows

Raft is a Mexican who returns home after being educated in the US. His older brother, Menjou, is a retired bandit, still sought by the police, who wants Raft to marry the girl Menjou has picked out for him and take a respectable job. Raft, however, falls in love with Menjou's mistress, dancer Drake, and wants to become a bullfighter. He is too much a man of honor to take his brother's woman, but under the tutelage of Ellis does become a matador in Mexico City. There he again meets Drake and soon they are living together. Menjou learns of this domestic arrangement and refuses to speak to his brother again. Menjou's rejection weighing on his mind, Raft drinks heavily...