The Cisco Kid in Old New Mexico *** (1945, Duncan Renaldo, Martin Garralaga, Gwen Kenyon) – Classic Movie Review 8288

Duncan Renaldo as The Cisco Kid and Martin Garralga as his sidekick Pancho are on excellent, zesty form in director Phil Rosen’s fast-paced, enjoyable 1945 black and white B-movie Western The Cisco Kid in Old New Mexico.

After the success of The Cisco Kid Returns (1945), Duncan Renaldo again stars as ‘O Henry’s famous Robin Hood of the Old West’ in the second of his series of Cisco Kid films, which proves one of the best.

Cisco and his sidekick Pancho (Martin Garralaga) hold up a stagecoach and abduct Ellen Roth (Gwen Kenyon) to save her and to prove that she did not commit the murder of an old woman in her care. She claims a sinister doctor, Doc Wills (Dick Gordon), arrived and gave the old lady a pill overdose.

Betty Burbridge again writes the original screenplay and Philip N Krasne produces for Monogram Pictures.

Also in the cast are Norman Willis, Lee Lassers White, Aurora Roche, Ken Terrell, Donna Dax, Pedro de Cordoba, Harry Depp, Edward Earle, Jim Farley, Frank Jaquet, Artie Ortego and Bud Osborne.

It now reveals Cisco’s real name to be Juan Carlos Francisco Antonio, instead of Juan Francisco Hernandez in The Cisco Kid Returns.

The Cisco Kid Returns was released on 3 April 1945, the first of three Cisco Kid films made that year, followed by the 15 May release of The Cisco Kid in Old New Mexico and South of the Rio Grande on 15 September.

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