The Cisco Kid and his English-mangling sidekick Pancho travel the old west in the grand
tradition of
the Lone Ranger, righting wrongs and fighting injustice wherever they find it.
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The Cisco Kid
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Studio: Turner Pictures STARRING:
Jimmy Smitz as Cisco Kid |
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SYNOPSIS:
This update of the 1950 western TV series changes Cisco and Pancho from wandering heroes of
the old west to somewhat anti-"gringo" Mexican revolutionaries.
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Complete Movie Review:
This “Cisco Kid,” re-invented by writer/director Valdez and co-scripter Michael Kane, outlines Cisco’s
origins and first adventures. A Californian running guns to revolutionary Mexicans in 1867, he finds himself
facing a French firing squad with another inmate, a cleric.
The two escape, and the priest — Pancho — tries to enlist Cisco in the revolution. “I don’t fight for causes,”
he says, signaling to everyone who’s ever seen a revolution movie that he soon will be.
There’s very little here that will strike veteran Western viewers as novel, with the very important exception
that all of the heroes are Latino and the villains are Cisco’s former gang of Texas outlaws and occupying French
military.
Smits shows a fine comic touch as the vain, womanizing Cisco, and Marin plays the wise guy he’s been honing for
more than 20 years, slightly toned down.
A bit of violence and language keep “The Cisco Kid” from being ideal for small children. Otherwise, it’s a
welcome return for the characters and should bring knowing smiles to fans of Renaldo and Leo Carrillo (Pancho
to Renaldo’s Cisco Kid), at least, when Smits and Marin join up at the end and greet each other with the
familiar “Hey, Pancho!””Hey, Cisco!””Let’s ride!”
Cisco Kid and Pancho