"It is the first film to mix "cangaço" with Western, starting a genre called "Nordestern" —an amalgam of the words "Nordeste" (Northeast) and "Western".It would be followed by successful films such as Carlos Coimbra's "A Morte Comanda o Cangaço" (1960), "Lampião, o Rei do Cangaço" (1964) and "Corisco, o Diabo Louro" (1969), and Aurélio Teixeira's "Os Três Cabras de Lampião".