A minor de Fuentes work, The Tiger of Yautepec is set in 1846, and is an adventure film dealing with outlaw bandits and a Committee for Social Defense organized to defend the villagers in Guerrero and Morelos from the gang headed by the feared bandit “El Tigre.” Full of action and melodrama, with a good montage sequence at the beginning and a curiously perverse romance between brother and sister, The Tiger of Yautepec is nonetheless compromised by “the fact that de Fuentes never knew if his ‘El Tigre de Yautepec' was a romantic and generous bandit or a bloody criminal....” (Emilio Garcia Riera)