Besides an Academy Award®, this film also won numerous other awards including several awards from the Southern California Motion Picture Council and the Berlin International Film Festival. The Wetback Hound is about the story of a young hound dog named Paco that is owned by mountain lion hunters in Sonora, Mexico. His owners mistreat him so Paco runs away and swims across a river and into United States in his search for a kindly master. He eventually finds a new home after he performs a heroic deed.
