Viva Cisco Kid (1940) DVD-R

Starring Cesar Romero, Jean Rogers, Chris Pin-Martin, Minor Watson, Stanley Fields
Directed by Norman Foster

Print: black/white
Runtime: 65 min.
Genre: western
Print Quality: B

The Cisco Kid (Cesar Romero) tells his pal Gordito (Chris-Pin Martin) that "From now on,
Amigo, I am through with women" and then a few minutes later, after rescuing Joan Allen
(Jean Rogers) from an attempted stage holdup, tells her "...but you, senorita, you are
different!" and therein lies the short summary of all of the films in the 20th Century-Fox
Cisco Kid series. The padded plot, so exhibitors could tell the entries apart, finds Towash,
Texas saloon owner Hank Gunther (Harold Goodwin) plotting with Jesse Allen (Minor
Watson), Joan's father, to rob the money missed on the aborted stage holdup from the
express company safe rather than report empty-handed to the "Boss"(Stanley Fields). Allen
robs the express office, but is seen by Moses (Nigel de Brulier), an old hermit, who tells the
boys in the saloon that he doesn't know the robber's name but recognized him as the man
he had seen that day with Joan. The latter has convinced her father to return the money and
they will go to Arizona. Cisco, also seen that day with Joan, gets blamed for the robbery as
Gunther has killed ol' Mose who is no longer around to identify Cisco as not being the
robber, and Joan is not willing to implicate her father. It is beginning to look like Cisco is
indeed through with women, albeit on an involuntary basis.