Given the question: Build a movie plot around this: Why does Don Almeda promise his daughter to Don Alvarez? Because of financial reserves
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Because of financial reverses Don Almeda offers his daughter, Maria, to Don Alvarez, though she does not love him. Terry ONeill arrives at the Southern California settlement in which the Almedas live, and is slightly wounded when Alvarezs henchmen seek to rob him. He is found by Maria, to whom he loses his heart. Just before the wedding, ONeill waylays Alvarez . . . and takes his place at a fiesta. Alvarez appears and denounces him. Later, Alvarez . . . slays the padre with ONeills knife. Denouncing ONeill as the murderer, Alvarez tries to shoot him, but wounds Maria, who throws herself in front of him. Later, she succeeds in proving that Alvarez is the thief and murderer, and everything ends happily for Maria and ONeill.