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Music by Sam Kaylin Director Herbert I. Leeds | 6.1/10 IMDb Initial release 11 February 1939 Producer John Stone Costume design Herschel McCoy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Barry Trivers, Jerry Cady Similar Chicken Wagon Family, Wild and Woolly, Always in Trouble, Chasing Danger, 45 Fathers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Arizona Wildcat is a 1939 American comedy western. Orphaned Mary Jane Patterson (Jane Withers) is under the guardianship of Manuel Hernandez (Leo Carrillo), once known as the bandit El Gato who led a gang of outlaws. Mary Jane wants Hernandez to revive the El Gato gang to rescue the feckless Donald (William Henry), the lone survivor of a stage coach robbery engineered by the town's crooked sheriff (Henry Wilcoxon). It's been a decade since El Gato rode, and Hernandez is now too fat for his bandit costume. Mary Jane aids the rescue by vandalizing the saddles of the sheriff and his posse. When El Gato does rescue Donald, he is arrested. During the ensuing trial, Mary Jane provides special pyrotechnics, and the courtroom is evacuated. When Mary Jane finds the stash from the stage coach robbery hidden in the sheriff's office, Hernandez is appointed as the new sheriff.