From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter (1999)
Marco Leonardi is Johnny Madrid, a notorious outlaw facing a date with a hangman’s noose and a horde of spectators gathered to watch him die.
But he doesn’t thanks to a sharpshooting admirer named Catherine Reece (Jordana Spiro) who wants to become his apprentice.
As the Hangman opens pulls the lever to send Johnny to hell, Catherine fires a shot — Man With No Name style — snapping the rope.
Johnny does the rest with the help of blades hidden in the soles of his boots, the snatches the hangman’s pretty 19-year-old daughter Esmeralda (Ara Celi) on the way out of town.
Naturally, the hangman (Temuera Morrison) and a large posse take off in pursuit.
Watching all this is American author and mercenary Ambrose Bierce (Michael Parks), who’s traveled south of the border to join Pancho Villa’s revolutionaries.
He’ll be traveling with Mary Newlie (Rebecca Grayheart) and her new husband John (Lennie Loftin). They plan to journey deeper into Mexico to teach the word of God.
Acting on Reece’s tip that Bierce is carrying something very valuable, Madrid’s gang later attack the stagecoach.
They find nothing of value, so they steal the stage’s team of horses. That leaves Bierce and the Newlies afoot in the desolute countryside.
Reece? She’s left hanging from a noose by an aggravated Johnny Madrid.
They’ll all meet again. At an isolated inn called La tetilla del diablo (The Devil’s Nipple).