Beauty and the Bandit – In Old California, a young Frenchman transporting a chest full of silver travels by stagecoach to San Marino, to complete a complex business deal.
Beauty and the Bandit (1946)
Director: William Nigh
Writers: Charles Belden, Gilbert Roland, O. Henry
Stars: Gilbert Roland, Martin Garralaga, Frank Yaconelli
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 1946 (United States)
Also Known As: Cisco and the Angel
Filming Locations: Santa Clarita, California, USA
Story:
In Old California, a young Frenchman transporting a chest full of silver travels by stagecoach to San Marino, to complete a complex business deal. The stagecoach is ambushed by a band of men whose leader, a mysterious bandido known as Cisco (Gilbert Roland), claims the silver is money that was extorted over a period of years from the poor people of California. The bandits take the money and escape, but Cisco stays behind with the Frenchman — who, it turns out, is actually a lovely mademoiselle, Jeanne DuBois (Ramsay Ames). She follows him to the bandit’s lair, where Cisco tells her he intends to return the stolen money to the poor people. The two rivals are irresistibly drawn to each other, however, and as a token of love Cisco offers to return the money to Jeanne instead. Now she must decide whether to complete her business deal, or to comply with Cisco’s wishes and redistribute the wealth.
Review:
Zorro’s Father Tries To Arrest Cisco
Gilbert Roland spends this episode of the Monogram Cisco Kid series frustrating evil-doing William Gould by chain-smoking and making love to a succession of lovelies, including Frenchwoman Ramsey Ames — she spends the first quarter hour of the movie pretending to be a man. Being Gilbert Roland, he is remarkably successful in all these endeavors.
We’re now in Old California, which may explain why Zorro’s TV father, George J. Lewis is in this movie. He’s a police captain who keeps trying to find and arrest Cisco.
Although the movie doesn’t settle down to brass tacks until the last ten minutes, it’s a fun, light-hearted romp for most of its length, and those last ten minutes are pretty scary. Gould is quite obviously a bad ‘un, but he doesn’t work too hard, spending much of his time sitting in a chair in a hotel, and a lot of the rest being a chuckling voice in the dark. Overall, it’s a remarkably entertaining movie. Written by boblipton on imdb.com
Also Known As (AKA):
(original title) Beauty and the Bandit
Austria Prinzessin der Unterwelt
Belgium De schone en de bandiet(Flemish)
Belgium La belle et le bandit(French)
Brazil O Bandido e a Dama
Ecuador Beauty and the Bandit
Finland Maantierosvo ja kaunotar
France La belle et le bandit
Italy La bella e il bandito
Mexico Bandidos del desierto
Poland Pieknosc i bandyta
Spain Beauty and the Bandit
United Kingdom Beauty and the Bandit
United States Beauty and the Bandit
United States Cisco and the Angel(Working Title)
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