...which was actually a production code buster in a way, because the Cisco Kid is not punished in this film in spite of the fact that he is a robber and it is shown that he did have the capacity for murder, even if he just set people up to be technically murdered by others.
The film starts with Cisco (Warner Baxter) facing a Mexican firing squad. He is executed, but the head of the federales doing the deed spots some vultures above and says to let the buzzards make a meal of Cisco rather than bury him. They leave and Cisco's partners arrive and Cisco rises from the dead. No! This is not a vampire movie! In fact Cisco's partners removed the bullets from the guns of the federales as they slept the night before and loaded them with blanks. Still, Cisco was a very cool cucumber considering he did not know if his gang had succeeded or not until after the "execution".
So off they go to plan more robberies. But as the passengers on the stagecoach of interest to Cisco make a quick stop, Cisco is instantly smitten by passenger Ann Carver (Lynn Bari) who is accompanying her grandfather (Henry Hull as Colonel Joshua Bixby) to purchase a ranch he plans to move to. So Cisco rides along with the passengers to be close to Ann and humorously gets held up by his own gang, unaware of their leader's new plans. He draws his gun and tells them to get lost. Confused they run. And everybody on the stage thinks Cisco is a hero.
The trouble begins when they get to their destination. The man holding their earnest money for the ranch and the deed has been jailed by a corrupt sheriff (Robert Barrat). Barrat always played the villain over at Warner Brothers with hissable skill, and it is true here too. When Ann and her grandfather object, they get thrown in jail too. Meanwhile, Cisco is left waiting at a restaurant where he has hoped to woo Ann at dinner. But she never shows as an increasingly irascible Cisco believes he has been stood up. When he finds out she is in jail he seems ... relieved. Because A. she might actually care and B. jail breaks are one of Cisco's specialties.
Why does the sheriff want this ranch so badly? Because there is gold there, something that Ann and her grandfather do not know. The sheriff may have been doing okay swindling cowboys and farmers, but Cisco has a few tricks up his sleeve that confound the bad guys, as usual. To see what happens and how it happens, watch and find out.
It may be that the censors let Cisco get out of this film scot-free because he has a touch of Robin Hood in him. Also note Cesar Romero as one of Cisco's gang who is third billed even though he hardly has any screen time at all. Romero would play the Cisco Kid in later Fox films about the bandit.
The film starts with Cisco (Warner Baxter) facing a Mexican firing squad. He is executed, but the head of the federales doing the deed spots some vultures above and says to let the buzzards make a meal of Cisco rather than bury him. They leave and Cisco's partners arrive and Cisco rises from the dead. No! This is not a vampire movie! In fact Cisco's partners removed the bullets from the guns of the federales as they slept the night before and loaded them with blanks. Still, Cisco was a very cool cucumber considering he did not know if his gang had succeeded or not until after the "execution".
So off they go to plan more robberies. But as the passengers on the stagecoach of interest to Cisco make a quick stop, Cisco is instantly smitten by passenger Ann Carver (Lynn Bari) who is accompanying her grandfather (Henry Hull as Colonel Joshua Bixby) to purchase a ranch he plans to move to. So Cisco rides along with the passengers to be close to Ann and humorously gets held up by his own gang, unaware of their leader's new plans. He draws his gun and tells them to get lost. Confused they run. And everybody on the stage thinks Cisco is a hero.
The trouble begins when they get to their destination. The man holding their earnest money for the ranch and the deed has been jailed by a corrupt sheriff (Robert Barrat). Barrat always played the villain over at Warner Brothers with hissable skill, and it is true here too. When Ann and her grandfather object, they get thrown in jail too. Meanwhile, Cisco is left waiting at a restaurant where he has hoped to woo Ann at dinner. But she never shows as an increasingly irascible Cisco believes he has been stood up. When he finds out she is in jail he seems ... relieved. Because A. she might actually care and B. jail breaks are one of Cisco's specialties.
Why does the sheriff want this ranch so badly? Because there is gold there, something that Ann and her grandfather do not know. The sheriff may have been doing okay swindling cowboys and farmers, but Cisco has a few tricks up his sleeve that confound the bad guys, as usual. To see what happens and how it happens, watch and find out.
It may be that the censors let Cisco get out of this film scot-free because he has a touch of Robin Hood in him. Also note Cesar Romero as one of Cisco's gang who is third billed even though he hardly has any screen time at all. Romero would play the Cisco Kid in later Fox films about the bandit.