Ride on Vaquero

Western, USA, 1941, 64 min.



A Price On His Head... and A Noose Dangling Above It!
U.S. Cavalry troops in the Arizona territory are baffled by a series of kidnappings allegedly committed by a notorious but charming bandit known as "The Cisco Kid." Cisco and his sidekick Gordito are betrayed to the troopers by Cisco's girl friend Dolores, who wants the reward offered for his capture. The post commander, Colonel Warren, knows that Cisco would not stoop to kidnapping, however, and offers to let him escape if he will find the real culprits. Cisco at first refuses, but when Warren reveals that the kidnappers recently killed Don Pedro Martinez while abducting his son Carlos, Cisco changes his mind. When Cisco emigrated to America from Portugal, the Martinez family were his closest friends, and Cisco is determined to avenge Don Pedro's death and free Carlos. Cisco travels with Gordito to the Martinez ranch and learns from Carlos' wife Marguerita that she has obtained a $50,000 mortgage on the ranch from banker Dan Clark in order to pay the ransom. Cisco assures Marguerita, who knows him only as Don Juan, that he will find Carlos, then goes with Gordito to the town saloon, which is run by Redge and his henchman Sleepy. Clark, Redge and the corrupt town sheriff, Johnny Burns, are the ringleaders of the kidnapping gang, and have been acquiring the land of local ranchers after they are forced to mortgage their ranches to Clark in order to pay the ransoms. At the saloon, Cisco runs into dancer Sally Slocum, who is still bitter about their brief romance that ended years earlier. Cisco promises Sally that he is there to help the Martinez family, and she agrees not to turn him in. After Marguerita receives a message about where to leave the ransom, Cisco drops off the money and recognizes Redge and Burns as the couriers. He then trails them to Clark's office, where he realizes that they are all part of the gang. Later that evening, Cisco and Gordito find Carlos, ill but alive, in a deserted cabin, but are apprehended by Burns and his posse. Upon learning Cisco's true identity, Marguerita refuses to believe his story that Clark, Burns and Redge are the culprits, and he and Gordito are jailed. Cisco thinks that Sally turned him in, but actually he was identified by a Mexican blacksmith and his family. Cisco tries to contact Warren, but the colonel is killed in an Indian raid on the post. Sally engineers Cisco and Gordito's escape from jail, after which they succeed in capturing Clark. With the help of Bullfinch, the bank's night watchman, Cisco tricks Clark, Redge and Burns into signing confessions. Sally then holds the criminals at bay while Cisco and Gordito escape before the soldiers arrive.
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Režie: Herbert I. Leeds
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