The Cisco Kid was the creation of short story writer O. Henry, whose one tale of the character was 'The Cabellero's Way" (Everybody's Magazine, July 1907; and included in O. Henry's collection of the same year The Heart of the West). In the original story, the Kid is a murderous criminal who tricks a Texas Ranger into killing his girlfriend.
The story was first filmed in 1914; Stanley Herbert Dunn perhaps (there is no true documentation)played the leading role Five years later, a second Cisco Kid movie was filmed, The Border Terror, featuring Vester Pegg. The Cisco Kid then had to wait for sound to come to the movies, and In Old Arizona was released in 1928, featuring Warner Baxter as The Cisco Kid -- a role that won him the second ever Best Actor Oscar; Raoul Walsh was slated to lay the role, but a freak accident with a rabbit coming through his windshield cost him his eye )!). The film was also notable because now The Cisco Kid was a good guy. Three other movies followed.
Then in 1939, the film series began and Baxter was brought back in the title role in The Return of the Cisco Kid; Caesar Romero played one of the Kid's sidekicks, Lopez, and Cris-Pen Martin played the other, Gordito. The second film in the series, The Cisco Kid and the Lady, brought Romero up to play the lead while Martin continued as Gordito the sidekick. Romero and Martin rode through five more movies before World War II interrupted the series. Monogram Pictures revived the series in 1945 with Duncan Renaldo as the Kid and with Martin Garralaga as a new sidekick, Pancho. After three films, Gilbert Roland took over the lead for six pictures before Renaldo returned, this time with Leo Carrillo as Pancho for 1948's The Valiant Hombre. Renaldo and Carrillo made four more features before riding out of the movies and into the television show for 156 episodes (1950-1956). In the final film, Renaldo wore the flowery "Charro" suit that would follow him into the television series.
There was a made for TV movie in 1994, The Cisco Kid, featuring Jimmy Smits as Cisco and Cheeh Marin as Pancho. The less said about that the better.
The Cisco Kid hit the radio airwaves on October 2, 1942, with Jackson Beck as Cisco and Louis
Sorin as Pancho. The weekly show continued until February 14, 1945 on the Mutual Network. The Cisco Kid returned on a Mutual-Don Lee regional network in 1946, and continued for more than 600 episodes from 1947 through 1956 with Jack Mather as Cisco; Harry E. Lang played Pancho until the actor's death in 1953, with Mel Blanc then taking over the role until the series' end.
Sorin as Pancho. The weekly show continued until February 14, 1945 on the Mutual Network. The Cisco Kid returned on a Mutual-Don Lee regional network in 1946, and continued for more than 600 episodes from 1947 through 1956 with Jack Mather as Cisco; Harry E. Lang played Pancho until the actor's death in 1953, with Mel Blanc then taking over the role until the series' end.
In "The Black Kerchief," Cisco thwarts a ruthless gang of train robbers.
Enjoy this show and enjoy the Independence Day holiday.
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