Mexicali Rose (also known as The Girl from Mexico) is a 1929 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Erle C. Kenton, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Sam Hardy.
[2] "Happy" Manning returns early from a trip to his Mexican casino, the Mina de Oro (Gold Mine), and to his wife Rose, unaware she has been unfaithful to him with Joe, the croupier.
Afterward, he goes to visit his younger brother and ward, Bob, who is the quarterback of his college football team in California.
Bob, believing Happy owns a gold mine, promises to spend his honeymoon there.
Happy later tries to buy Rose off, but she turns him down, claiming she genuinely loves Bob.