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Directed by Lambert Hillyer Cinematography William Sickner Director Lambert Hillyer | 6.4/10 IMDb Produced by Lindsley Parsons Initial release 8 September 1945 (USA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Victor Hammond, Ralph Bettinson Based on an original story
by Johnston McCulley Starring Duncan Renaldo, Martin Garralaga Film series The Cisco Kid Returns Film Series Screenplay Ralph Gilbert Bettison, Victor Hammond Story by O. Henry, Johnston McCulley Cast Duncan Renaldo, Martin Garralaga, George J Lewis, Armida, Charles Stevens Similar The Gay Amigo, The Gay Cavalier, Satan's Cradle, The Cisco Kid and the Lady, Robin Hood of Monterey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
South of the Rio Grande is a 1945 American western film. Released on September 15, it was the third of three Cisco Kid films made that year with Duncan Renaldo as Cisco and Martin Garralaga as Pancho.
Unusual as a Cisco Kid film, this one is a quasi-musical and opens with Cisco serenading a girlfriend. The Guadalajara Trio are featured as themselves. In this release, Cisco's real name is Juan Francisco Hernandez. Bandits Cisco and Pancho travel to a Mexican town to battle corrupt official Miguel Sanchez (Lewis) whose girlfriend Pepita (Armida) sings at a cantina. Dolores Gonzales (Molleri) is abducted and forced to sing in the cantina. When Cisco and Pancho go undercover at the Sanchez hacienda, Sanchez is eventually killed by Cisco and the town is rid of the corruption.
The film was preceded by the April 3 release of The Cisco Kid Returns, which revealed Cisco's name to be Juan Francisco Hernandez, and In Old New Mexico on May 15, with Cisco's name changed to Juan Carlos Francisco Antonio.