“Cisco Kid And The Lady”

Northern Advocate, 11 May 1940, Page 10

“Cisco Kid And The Lady”

O. Henry’s smiling desperado of the Old Southwest, the Cisco Kid, finds new adventure in Arizona and deadly danger in a beautiful senorita’s eyes m "The Cisco Kid and the Lady,” 20th Century-Fox picture, with plenty of excitement, thrills, laughter and romance making it a rare screen treat. Handsome Cesar Romero is the new Cisco and a more daring, romantic figure never roamed the W estern bad lands. Featured in the cast are Marjorie Weaver, Chris-Pin Martin, George Montgomery, Robert Barrat, Virginia Field and Harry Green. Heroert I. Leeds directed. Jn the screen play by Frances Hyland, based on the original story by Stanley Rauh, the Arizona stagecoach is robued, a gold mine is plundered and bad men die right and left of pistol poisoning—all of which puts,, the Cisco Kin in the mood for love! The success of Cisco’s romantic escapades is indicated in his boast: “She almost get me shot, she turn me over to the sheriff, she try to get me hang! Caramba, how the lady love me!”

Cisco’s desire to bestow heaven and earth upon the current light of his life plunges him into the series of exciting adventures that make “The Cisco Kid and the Lady” a highlight of coming film fare. He meets Marjorie Weaver quite by accident in a stagecoach he holds up and never can forget her—until a short time later when he meets Virginia Field, an entertainer in a Western tavern. Having two loves is a situation that doesn’t faze him a bit. As Cisco himself might say, “To rob a bank or hold up a stagecoach is play for a child. But to make love to two senoritas that is work for a man!”