Maten a Chinto

During the Christmas season of 1944 in the Pacific coast port city of Manzanillo hotel manager Chinto loses his temper and assaults Inés the homosexual cook Inés complains to the police but when several patrolmen come to arrest Chinto he pulls a pistol and shoots them The authorities soon lay seige to the hotel Chintos employees oddly enough follow his orders without question and assist him in barricading the hotels doors and windows The guests include US consul Kraft and Pamela the blonde mistress of a Mexican businessman whose Mexican wife is also staying in the hotel Chinto has been having an affair with one of the maids who unknown to him is pregnant with his child but he begins a brief sexual liaison with Pamela she asks him Who taught you English and Chinto replies George Raft