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7/10
The Story of the Cisco Kid and the Pretty Senorita
23 February 2022
This film begins around 1897 in the old Southwest with a bandit known as "the Cisco Kid" (Warner Baxter) holding up a stagecoach and then riding off with some gold coins and a necklace he purchased from one of the female passengers. Needless to say, once the news of the stagecoach robbery is reported in the nearest town the local citizenry becomes anxious for justice which results in the commander of a nearby Army post to send his best Non-Commissioned Officer, "Sergeant Mickey Dunn" (Edmund Lowe) and two other soldiers to track down the Cisco Kid and bring him back-dead or alive. Likewise, the fact that there is a bounty of $5000 on his head makes the assignment even more attractive. Meanwhile, although he is aware that there is a bounty on him, the Cisco Kid thinks nothing of it as he values the love of a pretty senorita named "Tonia Maria" (Dorothy Burgess) more than anything else. Things change, however, when Sergeant Dunn arrives in the same village and casts his eyes on the beautiful Tonia Maria. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this film is definitely a product of its time and suffers accordingly. For starters, although the era of silent films was quickly coming to an end around this time, the rather expressive acting required for movies of that type tended to bleed over to a certain degree when sound was introduced-and this movie clearly exemplifies that spillover effect. Likewise, as far as the actual sound was concerned, there were differences in volume between scenes filmed outdoors from those inside a room. Be that as it may, I still found this film to be quite enjoyable due in large part to the acting of Warner Baxter who won an Academy Award for his performance. It also has some really good humor throughout with both Warner Baxter and Dorothy Burgess providing their fair share. That being said, however, this movie does require the viewer to disregard the technological limitations of that particular period, and if they can do that, then they might find this as equally enjoyable as well.
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