Viva Cisco Kid

April. 12,1940

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Western

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Cisco Kid

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to murder him.

Cesar Romero as Cisco Kid

Jean Rogers as Joan Allen

Chris-Pin Martin as Gordito

Minor Watson as Jesse Allen

Stanley Fields as Boss

Nigel De Brulier as Old Mose

Harold Goodwin as Hank Gunther

Francis Ford as Proprietor

Charles Judels as Don Pancho

Jacqueline Dalya as Helena

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Reviews

VividSimon

1940/04/12

Simply Perfect

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Moustroll

1940/04/13

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Salubfoto

1940/04/14

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

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Kien Navarro

1940/04/15

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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MartinHafer

1940/04/16

This film is very much like many of the other Cesar Romero incarnations of the Cisco Kid. Once again, when the film starts he's in a clinch with a pretty lady, once again she betrays him and once again he swears off women....and once again he soon forgets this oath! What also is familiar is that once again, someone is committing robberies and they are pretending to be the Cisco Kid. After all, he's a bandit and a handy scapegoat! However, when a robbery in town occurs, an old crazy hermit, Moses, sees it...and the bandits kill the guy and frame Cisco!! So, he has to infiltrate the gang, save the pretty woman and save his not exactly perfect reputation.Despite the familiarity, this is an enjoyable entry in the series. There also a couple familiar bit players, Mantan Moreland and Willie Fung. Oddly, Fung's IMDb and Wikipedia pages list almost nothing about him...yet he appeared in 125 films! Overall, an enjoyable outing. Generally nothing special but handled quite well...and the way the baddies die...now that IS special!

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bkoganbing

1940/04/17

Viva Cisco Kid finds Cesar Romero as the famous bandit once again stopping to do a good turn for a lady. In this case the lady is Jean Rogers and along for the ride is Chris-Pin Martin as Gordito.Romero prevents a stagecoach holdup where Rogers is a passenger and prevents bandits led by Stanley Fields. What they don't know, but soon learn is that Jean's father Minor Watson is an express company employee in league with the bandits.I like Romero's interpretation of the part. His Cisco Kid is charming and breezy and never loses his cool under some extreme provocation at times. He's not a G-rated Cisco like Duncan Renaldo. Both of them however keep their sidekicks around for laughs. Poor Chris-Pin Martin, he can't do anything right. In fact Stanley Fields who likes practical jokes, exploding cigars, whoopee cushions and the like, makes him the butt of a lot and even Romero gets a laugh from it.Of course Fields plays one too many jokes and it spells the end.Fans of the Cisco Kid will like this.

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boblipton

1940/04/18

Fox' Cisco Kid series continues, with the usual good chemistry between Cesar Romero and Chris-Pin Martin. This one takes a few minutes to get off to a start as Cisco is framed for a series of robberies and succored by Jean Rogers, who is the daughter of one of the gang members. This is not quite as good as others in this series: the energy levels of different players is distracting and at times it becomes a standard B western.Fox' B unit, however, was, at this time, probably the best in the industry, and its strength was the high quality of cinematographer it got. Here's it's Charles Clarke, who takes advantage of the settings to shoot some beautiful scenery. Notice also the silhouette lighting during the interview with the witness and the almost Film Noir shadow shooting when Romero meets Fields -- or as close as they ever got to noir lighting at Fox. I don't think anyone ever turned out a light at that studio.

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