The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) has no Pancho to help him. That said, he can still keep a young girl named Pepita (Ramsay Ames, who played Princess Ananka in The Mummy’s Ghost; despite her exotic appearance, she was born on Long Island) from marrying a rich man to save her family home. There’s also a gang of stagecoach robbers. It makes it all simple when the man aiming to steal Pepita ends up being the same man who leads the criminals.
According to director William Witney, there were several Republic Pictures’ stuntmen who got hurt running on rooftops to get a better look at Ames walking across the backlot. In fact, more of them got hurt that way than in the actual stunts.
This was directed by William Nigh, who directed many of the East Side Kids and Mr. Wong movies, and written by Charles S. Belden.
The Cisco Kid Western Movie Collection is available from VCI Entertainment. It has 13 movies and extras like two Cisco Kid TV episodes, interviews with Duncan Renaldo and Colonel Tim McCoy, and photo and poster galleries. You can get it from MVD.
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