Now for some disillusionment, if you think the movie and TV "Cisco Kid" is anything like what O.Henry created in his short story. The sidekicks didn't have to "act" being mexicans. Baxter makes a believable mexican and Lynn Bari is a lovely lady. The girl had never loved him, she had only been friendly because of his help to her father. When he thought the senorita had "led him on", he devised that plan already mentioned to get rid of her boyfriend. Henry might feel the film adventures of Cisco are a far cry from those in "The Caballero's Way", on which IN OLD ARIZONA (the first Cisco movie) was sort of based, there are some echoes of the Kid's treacherous way of dealing with what he perceives as treachery to himself. For example, when sidekick Chris Pin Martin is ordered by one of the villains to help put out a fire, he "helps" by spitting on it! Although O. For another, the comedy which was usually so intrusive and unfunny in the usual oater is here subtle and actually very funny. Director and camera man must have been in love with the Arizona scenery! Always assuming, of course, that it wasn't shot in Griffith Park. For one thing, the photography is beautiful. That's the story, but there are some goodies to set it a bit higher than the usual "formula" western. He devises a job that is sure suicide for the boyfriend, but changes his mind at the last minute, and rides off into the sunset without the senorita, only with the side kicks. But, the lady already has a boy friend whom she prefers to Cisco (if you can believe it). Sound familiar? Naturally Cisco falls in love at once and takes care of the baddies. Escaping with his two sidekicks he just chances to meet an attractive senorita whose father has been cheated by unscrupulous land grabbers. Warner Baxter's second outing as "Cisco" finds him barely escaping death before a firing squad.
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