THE CISCO KID

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22768, 21 July 1939, Page 18

THE CISCO KID

Popular Hero in New Film At Liberty

Warner Baxter again dons the sombrero and silver-mounted guns of his most famous character in the 20th Cen-tury-Fox production, “The Return of the Cisco Kid,” which opens to-day at the Liberty.

O. Henry’s lovable outlaw, who inspired the greatest legends of the colourful West, meets his most thrilling adventures—and his most beautiful senoritas—as he rides back over the border in this exciting and romantic film.

But while a hundred posses hunt the bullet-proof bandit whom no jail can hold, and a thousand senoritas sigh for him, Cisco yearns for the one girl he cannot have. Lynn Bari has her most important role to date as the beauty for whose love the romantic bandit robbed banks, burned down gaols, and generally risked his neck. Dashing Cesar Romero presents a picture that is very different from his usual suave characterisations, as Lopez, the Cisco Kid’s faithful but bloodthirsty henchman, while Henry Hull, who lately scored as the irascible newspaper editor in “Jesse James,” is seen as Miss Bari’s sly but lovable old grandfather. Kane Richmond is also featured as Cisco’s successful rival for Miss Bari’s heart, while others prominently cast are C. Henry Gordon and Robert Barrat.

The opening dialogue shows how hair-raising parts of this film are: “Please/ capitan, is not this grave I dig, deep enough?’’

“That is for you to decide, Cisco, since it is your grave!” “Then, capitan, I think this deep will be comfortable!”

And the firing squad fires and Cisco falls into his ' grave—but not dead. Thanks to his supporters the cartridges were blanks. And now that he is dead the bandit can plunder to his heart’s content.

The film is directed by Herbert I. Leeds.

FILM PRODUCER’S VISIT

Mr Adolf Zukor, a pioneer of the motion picture industry in the United States, will arrive at Auckland by the Niagara on Monday. Mr Zukor, who is chairman of the board of directors of Paramount Pictures, Incorporated, and is in active charge of the company’s production in California, is celebrating his twentyfifth anniversary in motion picture production. At the close of his New Zealand visit he will go to Australia.

Lynne Overman, cast as a hard-bit-ten, cud-chewing, straight-shooting hillbilly bodyguard of Joel McCrea in Cecil B. DeMille’s “Union Pacific,” claims that he and Shirley Temple have a lot in common. They both made their first conspicuous impression on the . screen in “Little Miss Marker.”