Ride on Vaquero ** (1941, Cesar Romero, Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowery, William Demarest, Lynne Roberts, Chris-Pin Martin) – Classic Movie Review 13,720

The 1941 20th Century Fox black and white American Western film Ride on Vaquero stars Cesar Romero in the last of his six entertaining outings as the Cisco Kid.

Director Herbert I Leeds’s 1941 20th Century Fox black and white American Western film Ride on Vaquero is written by Samuel G Engel, and stars Cesar Romero, Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowery, William Demarest, Lynne Roberts, Chris-Pin Martin, and Ben Carter.

Ride on Vaquero is Cesar Romero’s last and perhaps least of his six entertaining outings as the Cisco Kid, in which he again falls for an old flame, saloon gal Sally (Mary Beth Hughes), while tracking a gang of kidnappers. There is too much comedy, romance and dancing even, and not enough serious action, but it coasts pleasantly enough on Romero’s charm, on the appeal of Mary Beth Hughes, and of course on the likability of Chris-Pin Martin as loyal sidekick Gordito.

Romero joined the US forces in World War Two and 20th Century Fox let the series lapse. It later continued at Monogram Pictures, with Duncan Renaldo in The Cisco Kid Returns.

Mary Beth Hughes previously starred as a saloon gal in Lucky Cisco Kid (1940).

Cast: Cesar Romero, Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowery, William Demarest, Lynne Roberts, Chris-Pin Martin, Ben Carter, Arthur Hohl, Edwin Maxwell, Paul Sutton, Don Costello.

Ride on Vaquero is directed by Herbert I Leeds, runs 64 minutes, is made and released by 20th Century Fox, is written by Samuel G Engel, is shot in black and white by Lucien Andriot, is produced by Sol M Wurtzel (executive producer), and scored by Emil Newman (musical direction).

It was released on April 18, 1941.

The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939) is the first of Romero’s six 20th Century Fox Cisco Kid roles, followed by Viva Cisco Kid (released on April 12, 1940), Lucky Cisco Kid (released on June 23, 1940), The Gay Caballero (released on October 4, 1940), Romance of the Rio Grande (released on January 17, 1941) and Ride on Vaquero (released on April 18, 1941). Then, after World War Two, the series resumed at Monogram Pictures, but Duncan Renaldo took over for The Cisco Kid Returns (1945), In Old New Mexico (1945), and South of the Rio Grande (1945).

Cesar Romero enlisted in the US Coast Guard as an apprentice seaman in October 1942, and served in the Pacific Theater of Operations. He joined the Coast Guard-crewed assault transport USS Cavalier in November 1943 and saw action in the invasions of Tinian and Saipan.

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