South of the Rio Grande (1945)

6/10

bkoganbing16 May 2020

This Cisco Kid film brings Duncan Renaldo and Martin Garralaga South Of The Rio Grande where he is answering a call from help from a family he knew from childhood. He arrives too late to help them as they are killed, but others in the area are similarly afflicted.

Part of Renaldo's plan calls for him to impersonate the new administrator who was killed on the road. This calkls for Cisc to think fast on his feet which he does.

Renaldo also gets to sing a couple of Spanish ditties and if he wasn't dubbed had a few nice notes in his voice.

Good entry in the series.

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4/10

Below Average Entry in Cisco Kid Series

bsmith555217 May 2003

"South of the Rio Grande" is an entry from the first series of Cisco Kid westerns starring Duncan Renaldo. It is more of a musical than an action piece and most of the "action" takes place indoors.

The film starts out with Renaldo serenading a senorita and is followed by several songs sung by "saloon girl" Armida and heroine Lillian Molien. The story involves Cisco posing as a senior military officer to get the goods on bandito Sanchez (George J. Lewis) who has been murdering the local ranchers and stealing their cattle.

In this series Martin Garralaga played "Pancho". He does OK but suffers in comparison to the later "Pancho", Leo Carillo. Also in the cast is Charlie Stevens.

This film is available on DVD along with "The Girl From San Lorenzo" (1950), an episode from The Cisco Kid TV series and a delightful interview with Duncan Renaldo.

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4/10

Pancho!

BandSAboutMovies7 November 2023

Warning: Spoilers

There were three Cisco Kid movies made in 1945. That's how popular the character was. This one, directed by Lambert Hillyer (who made so many movies, including Dracula's Daughter) and written by Victor Hammond and Ralph Bettinson, is unlike many of the other movies in the series as its a musical. It starts with Cisco (Duncan Renaldo) singing to a potential girlfriend. Then, he and Pancho (Martin Garralaga) head to Mexico to stop the corrupt Miguel Sanchez (George J. Lewis) and romance the ladies like Pepita (Armida) and Dolores Gonzales (Lillian Molieri) who work in a cantina.

Sixty-two minutes long, this Monogram Pictures series joined Charlie Chan and Palooka Joe as their dependable features. They kept making them and audiences kept going to see them.

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