Duncan Renaldo

Duncan Renaldo

Born: April 23, 1904
Died: September 3, 1980
in Oancea, Galați, Romania
To most audiences, Duncan Renaldo will always be identified as film and TV's "The Cisco Kid." However, this role occurred late in his career, which consisted of much more than just this western character. Not much is known about Renaldo's early life. In fact, his date and place of birth is still questioned. The usual given birth date is April 23, 1904. His birthplace has been generally stated as Spain--he has said that his first memories as a child were in Spain--although Romania and even New Jersey have been mentioned as well. An orphan, he never knew his actual parents and was never able to ascertain the exact date and place of his birth. He was raised and educated in various European countries and arrived in the US in the early 1920s as a stoker on a Brazilian coal ship. Entering the country on a 90-day seaman's permit, he stayed when his ship caught fire at the dock and burned to the waterline. A paltry existence as a portrait painter forced him to seek other work, and he somehow found his way into films as a producer of short features, which in turn led to on-camera work as an actor with MGM in 1928. The studio capitalized on his dashing Hispanic looks and initially typed him as a "Latin lover", but it didn't last long. In the early 1930s his career was interrupted when he was arrested and faced deportation due to his illegal immigrant status. The actor was eventually pardoned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt--his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, had bought one of Renaldo's paintings, looked into his case and persuaded her husband to pardon him. He returned to minor films for both Republic and Monogram, alternating as heroic sidekick and villain. He co-starred as one of the Three Mesquiteers in the revamped film series, and showed up regularly in 1930s and 1940s cliffhangers, including The Painted Stallion (1937), Jungle Menace (1937), Zorro Rides Again (1937), King of the Mounties (1942), Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943) The Tiger Woman (1944). In 1945 he began the Cisco Kid film series and transferred the character successfully to TV in the early 1950s, with Leo Carrillo as faithful sidekick Pancho. Renaldo made the character clean-shaven and more of a do-gooder than the roguish bandit who actually was in the books. Renaldo retired soon after the series' demise and died years later at Goleta Valley Community Hospital in California of lung cancer in 1980.

Movies for Duncan Renaldo...

Title: Western von gestern
Character: Renaldo
Released: May 5, 1978
Type: TV
Western von gestern is a German television series.
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Title: Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 10, 1972
Type: Movie
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
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Title: The Cisco Kid
Character: The Cisco Kid
Released: September 5, 1950
Type: TV
The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
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The Capture
Title: The Capture
Character: Carlos
Released: April 8, 1950
Type: Movie
A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.
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The Girl from San Lorenzo
Title: The Girl from San Lorenzo
Character: The Cisco Kid
Released: February 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Cisco and Pancho set out to clear their names in a series of stage robberies committed by two thugs who are impersonating them.
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Satan's Cradle
Title: Satan's Cradle
Character: The Cisco Kid
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. This time, Cisco takes on a frontier megalomaniac, shyster lawyer Steve Gentry, who has taken over a mining town. Gentry's confederate is dancehall girl Lil who is as deadly as she is beautiful. When itinerant preacher Henry Lane is beaten to a pulp by Gentry's goons, Cisco and Pancho move in for the kill.
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The Daring Caballero
Title: The Daring Caballero
Character: The Cisco Kid
Released: June 13, 1949
Type: Movie
Daring Cabellero was the third of producer Phil Krasne's Cisco Kid "B" westerns. Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo return as Cisco and Pancho, roles they'd carry over into a popular 1950s TV series. Once more stumbling into a dangerous situation, Cisco and Pancho risk their own necks by saving an innocent man from hanging. Eventually, our heroes learn that a corrupt political machine is behind the killing. Leading lady Kippie Valez is cast as "herself," which must have meant more in 1949 than it does today. Unlike the subsequent TV series, Daring Caballero does not end with the leading actors reciting their standard mantra "Oh, Pancho! Oh, Cisco!"
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The Gay Amigo
Title: The Gay Amigo
Character: The Cisco Kid
Released: May 13, 1949
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid and Pancho are mistakenly identified as leaders of an outlaw band. While the cavalry runs them down, they must hunt down the real bad guys.
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The Valiant Hombre
Title: The Valiant Hombre
Character: The Cisco Kid
Released: December 15, 1948
Type: Movie
The Cisco Kid and Pancho set off to find the missing owner of a devoted little dog in this western adventure. From the vanished man's sister, the heroes learn that her brother disappeared soon after striking a major gold vein in his mine. In the end Cisco accosts the villain, saves the kidnapped miner and reunites him with his dog.
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Sword of the Avenger
Title: Sword of the Avenger
Character: Fernando
Released: June 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Roberto Balagtas is falsely arrested for treason and sent to prison where he is tortured. He escapes with other prisoners, but only Batagtas survives the escape, carrying with him a treasure map left by one of the others. He crosses paths with Ming Tang (Strong) and a group of Chinese smugglers, with whom he finds the treasure. The booty makes him extremely wealthy, and he changes his name to Don Diego Sebastian. He then goes back to the Philippines to seek his revenge.
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Jungle Flight
Title: Jungle Flight
Character: Police Captain Costa
Released: August 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Kelly Jordan and Andy Melton are former AAF fliers operating a cargo service over the South American mountain ranges in order to get enough money to return to Texas and buy a commercial line.
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Jungle Terror
Title: Jungle Terror
Character: Armand Roget
Released: June 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Re-edited feature film version of the 1937 serial, Jungle Menace.
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South of the Rio Grande
Title: South of the Rio Grande
Character: The Cisco Kid
Released: September 15, 1945
Type: Movie
The Kid (Duncan Renaldo) masquerades as a government inspector in this pleasant, and pleasantly tuneful, Cisco Kid series entry. Learning that his old friends have been killed and Manuel Gonzales (Tito Renaldo) wrongly accused of cattle rustling by corrupt district officer Miguel Sanchez (George J. Lewis), the Kid assumes the identity of the murdered government official.
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In Old New Mexico
Title: In Old New Mexico
Character: The Cisco Kid
Released: May 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" murder suspect Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove her innocence, all with the cooperation of a sympathetic sheriff.
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The Cisco Kid Returns
Title: The Cisco Kid Returns
Character: The Cisco Kid
Released: February 16, 1945
Type: Movie
After several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with Monogram's The Cisco Kid Returns. Duncan Renaldo, actually Rumanian, starred as the Mexican "Robin Hood of the Old West", with Martin Garralaga as his corpulent sidekick Pancho. In the tradition of 20th Century-Fox's earlier "Cisco" efforts, our hero comes to the aid of an orphaned child, clears himself of a kidnapping charge, and proves that a "solid citizen" is in fact a criminal mastermind.
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Sheriff of Sundown
Title: Sheriff of Sundown
Character: Chihuahua Ramírez
Released: November 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Bringing his large cattle herd to Sundown, rancher Tex Jordan must sell his cattle to corrupt baron Jack Hatfield. He does OK but learns Hatfield is cheating the small outfits. When one refuses to sell he is murdered and Tex then decides to stay and take up the fight. He is appointed a special Agent by the Governor but unknonw to him the Governor's Secretary is a spy for Hatfield and reveals his plans.
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San Antonio Kid
Title: San Antonio Kid
Character: Johnny Bennett aka San Antonio Kid
Released: August 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A geologist has found oil on the neighboring ranches and teams up with Ace who has his gang create a reign of terror to get the ranchers to sell out. But to get rid of Red Ryder, Ace sends for the San Antonio Kid. Arriving, the Kid has a freak accident and Red comes along to save his life. When the Kid later meets with Ace he learns that Red is the man he has been paid to kill. Written by Maurice Van Auken
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The Tiger Woman
Title: The Tiger Woman
Character: José Delgado
Released: May 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Greedy oil speculators, led by Morgan, are trying to force Tiger Woman and her band of warriors from their jungle home. Allen Saunders of Inter-Ocean Oil wants to develop the oil, too, but fights with Tiger Woman to stop the bad guys.
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Call of the South Seas
Title: Call of the South Seas
Character: Commissioner Charcot
Released: April 7, 1944
Type: Movie
FBI Agent Kendall Gaige goes undercover on a South Seas island in order to expose the underhanded and exploitative business practices of Steve Landrau. In the course of his investigation Gaige is introduce to the Paris-educated native princess Tahia, who believes that he has arrived to save her people from poverty. A romance, of course, ensues as Gaige attempts to expose Landrau before his cover is blown.
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The Fighting Seabees
Title: The Fighting Seabees
Character: Construction Worker at Party
Released: January 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
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Hands Across the Border
Title: Hands Across the Border
Character: Juan Morales
Released: January 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Horse breeders Adams and Brock are vying for the Army contract. When Adams is killed trying to ride his horse Trigger, Roy saves the horse from being shot. He trains him and then plans to ride him in the race to win the contract.
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Around the World
Title: Around the World
Character: Dragoman
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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Tiger Fangs
Title: Tiger Fangs
Character: Peter Jeremy
Released: September 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A big-game hunter travels to Malaya to help stop the Nazis and Japanese from destroying the rubber industry.
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Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Title: Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Character: Capt. Pierre LaSalle
Released: July 24, 1943
Type: Movie
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Character: Lt. Berrendo
Released: July 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Italian Reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Border Patrol
Title: Border Patrol
Character: Commandante
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by the town's corrupt sheriff.
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King of the Mounties
Title: King of the Mounties
Character: Pierre (Ch. 1, 11-12)
Released: October 17, 1942
Type: Movie
King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic plane called "The Falcon" first, but that's not gonna happen if Kig has his way.
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A Yank in Libya
Title: A Yank in Libya
Character: Sheik David
Released: July 24, 1942
Type: Movie
American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Lybia. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes refuge in the suite of Nancy Brooks, who is in the British Intelligence. He asks her to hide a gun and escapes through a window. Reporting the affair to British Consul Herbert Forbes, the latter tries to discourage him from further investigation, as the British are aware of the plot and are planning on staging a coup. He goes with Mike to Nancy's apartment, and she denies having ever seen him before. Sheik Ibrahim, next in command of the Arab tribe to Sheik David, is plotting with Nazi agent Yussof Streyer to kill David who is friendly with the British. Mike and Nancy have gone to David's camp, escape from Ibrahim's henchmen, and get back to El Moktar before the Arabs attack the garrison.
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Outlaws of the Desert
Title: Outlaws of the Desert
Character: Sheik Suleiman
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Hoppy, Johnny and California go to Arabia to buy some horses. There they get involved with a sheik and a harem and a kidnapping plot.
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Gauchos of El Dorado
Title: Gauchos of El Dorado
Character: Gaucho / José Ojara
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
It's "The Three Mesquiteers" again. Gaucho escapes from Braden's gang only to be shot by them. The Mesquiteers drive away the outlaws and take his money on to his mother. But Isabella thinks Tucson is her long lost son and they don't have the heart to tell her he is dead.
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Down Mexico Way
Title: Down Mexico Way
Character: Juan
Released: October 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.
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King of the Texas Rangers
Title: King of the Texas Rangers
Character: Lt. Pedro Garcia
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies.
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Bad Men of Missouri
Title: Bad Men of Missouri
Character: Dan
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
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South of Panama
Title: South of Panama
Character: Captain of Police
Released: May 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible.
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Heroes of the Saddle
Title: Heroes of the Saddle
Character: Rico
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three cowboy pals promising to look after Peggy Bell, the little daughter of mortally wounded rodeo champ Montana. Legal technicalities, however, halt the adoption proceeding and Stony, Rusty, and Rico can only watch as the little girl is placed in the county orphanage.
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Oklahoma Renegades
Title: Oklahoma Renegades
Character: Rico Rinaldo
Released: August 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, known as The Three Mesquiteers, return to Oklahoma at the close of the Spanish-American War, and are concerned that some of their wounded buddies have no prospects for a satisfactory future. When the government offers preferred homesteads in the newly-opened Oklahoma territory to war veterans, they send word for their pals to join them there. Once there, the veterans meet a hostile reception as the cattlemen resent the influx of "nesters" and are determined to drive them out. Mace Liscomb and his brother Orv plan not only to drive out the homesteaders, but to also double cross the cattlemen and gain exclusive titles to the range lands for themselves. Stony and his pals eventually show the honest cattlemen that there is room for the settlers and that both are fighting a common enemy. Written by Les Adams
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Rocky Mountain Rangers
Title: Rocky Mountain Rangers
Character: Rico
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Joslin (Raymond Hatton) and Rico Rinaldo (Duncan Renaldo) hatch a plan: Stony poses as an outlaw dubbed The Laredo Kid to lure the bad guys into Texas. But the plan might fall apart when the real Laredo Kid arrives on the scene in this action-packed Western.
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Gaucho Serenade
Title: Gaucho Serenade
Character: Gaucho Don José
Released: May 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
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Covered Wagon Days
Title: Covered Wagon Days
Character: Rico Rinaldo
Released: April 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, the Three Mesquiteers, are returning from Mexico and are stopped at the border by Army officials, who are attempting to apprehend smugglers who are buying cheap silver in Mexico and smuggling it into the States, where they can take advantage of a silver stabilizing measure and sell it at a high price.
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Pioneers of the West
Title: Pioneers of the West
Character: Rico
Released: March 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by Lester Orlebeck.
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The Mad Empress
Title: The Mad Empress
Character: Col. Miguel López
Released: December 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
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South of the Border
Title: South of the Border
Character: Andreo Mendoza
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A federal agent and his partner hang out in Mexico to check a revolution.
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Cowboys from Texas
Title: Cowboys from Texas
Character: Rico Rinaldo
Released: November 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to join Plummer's gang hoping to find out who it is.
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The Kansas Terrors
Title: The Kansas Terrors
Character: Renaldo
Released: October 5, 1939
Type: Movie
In Kansas Terrors, Stoney and his saddle pal Rusty take a job delivering horses to a flyspeck Caribbean island. Here they join forces with Rico to topple the regime of a despotic commandante.
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Rough Riders' Round-up
Title: Rough Riders' Round-up
Character: Alcalde Don Enriguez
Released: March 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Title: The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Character: Juan Vasquez
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.
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Spawn of the North
Title: Spawn of the North
Character: Ivan
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.
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Tropic Holiday
Title: Tropic Holiday
Character: Young Blood (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.
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Rose of the Rio Grande
Title: Rose of the Rio Grande
Character: Sebastian
Released: March 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The story, based on a novel by Johnston (Zorro) McCulley, concerns a group of aristocratic vigilantes, who go about trying to restore their prominence in Mexico by killing anyone who stands in their way.
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Zorro Rides Again
Title: Zorro Rides Again
Character: Renaldo
Released: November 20, 1937
Type: Movie
The California-Yucatan Railroad, being built for the good of Mexico, is under siege by a gang of terrorists hoping to force its sale; no one can prove their connection to profiteer Marsden. Manuel Vega, aged co-owner, calls in the aid of his nephew James, great-grandson of the original Zorro. Alas, James seems more adept at golf than derring-do; but after he arrives, Zorro rides again! Can one black-clad man on horseback defeat a gang supplied with airplanes and machine guns?
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Sky Racket
Title: Sky Racket
Character: Count Barksi
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes out of the sky.
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Jungle Menace
Title: Jungle Menace
Character: Armand Roget
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
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The Painted Stallion
Title: The Painted Stallion
Character: Zamorro
Released: June 5, 1937
Type: Movie
American federal agent Clark Stuart is on assignment in Santa Fe to draw up a trade agreement with the newly installed Mexican governor. Meanwhile, Walter Jamison leads a wagon train from Missouri, hoping to take advantage of the new agreement. Among Jamison's passenger are famed frontiersman Jim Bowie and a very youthful Kit Carson. The destinies of all these personalities intersect when villainous ex-governor DuPrey schemes to undermine the treaty and take over the New Mexico territory for his own vile purposes. Somewhere along the way, Davy Crockett joins the "good guys" in their efforts to thwart the despicable DuPrey.
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Mile a Minute Love
Title: Mile a Minute Love
Character: Count Ribalto
Released: April 5, 1937
Type: Movie
William Bakewell stars as an inventor who develops a high-powered boat engine. Bakewell, of course, created this wonder machine to benefit mankind-and, incidentally, to win an upcoming motorboat race.
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Ten Laps to Go
Title: Ten Laps to Go
Character: Eddie DeSylva
Released: December 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Larry Evans, champion race car driver, is envied by his chief rival, Eddie DeSylva, who has more ambitions than merely winning the races; he has designs on the motor patent held by Corbett (Tom Moore), Larry's employer. Eddie also has a yen for Corbett's daughter, Norma, who prefers Larry. Eddie intentionally causes a race wreck that injures Larry and sends him to the hospital.
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Two Minutes to Play
Title: Two Minutes to Play
Character: Lew Ashley
Released: November 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets Pat Meredith, a co-ed at a rival college, changes his mind team and goes to college there, just as his father Martin Granville Sr., an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Granville, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team, but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton.
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Rebellion
Title: Rebellion
Character: Ricardo Castillo
Released: October 27, 1936
Type: Movie
In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-grabbers kill her father and begin harassing her. Desperate, she sends an impassioned plea for help to Washington, who sends her is special aide to mediate.
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Lady Luck
Title: Lady Luck
Character: Tony Morelli
Released: September 13, 1936
Type: Movie
New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli.
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Special Agent K-7
Title: Special Agent K-7
Character: Tony Blank
Released: May 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up the feds, Lanny tackles a baffling espionage case. Things heat up when reporter sweetheart Ollie is framed for murder.
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Moonlight Murder
Title: Moonlight Murder
Character: Pedro
Released: March 27, 1936
Type: Movie
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
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The Moth
Title: The Moth
Character: Don Pedro
Released: January 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Wealthy young socialite Diane Wyman squanders her fortune and becomes involved in a scandalous raid at a wild party. Her legal guardian, a lecherous old man who has the hots for her, hires a private detective to spy on her. He tails her to a train headed for New Orleans, but she catches on to him. She befriends a young woman aboard the train and they both give the private eye the slip. What Diane doesn't know, however, is that that her newfound friend is actually a notorious criminal known as The Moth, and she has her own reasons for helping Diane escape--she, too, is being tailed by a detective, who's after a cache of jewels she's stolen.
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Public Stenographer
Title: Public Stenographer
Character: Henchman Orsini
Released: January 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A stenographer who works at a large hotel finds herself caught in the middle of a major swindle.
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Trapped in Tia Juana
Title: Trapped in Tia Juana
Character: Lt. Kenneth Holbert / El Zorro
Released: August 14, 1932
Type: Movie
An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert has a hard time figuring out which is which, especially since Romanian native Renaldo uses the same accent for both brothers.
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Trader Horn
Title: Trader Horn
Character: Peru
Released: February 3, 1931
Type: Movie
While on safari in an unexplored area of Africa, Trader Horn and Peru find missionary Edith Trent killed by natives. They decide to carry on her quest for her lost daughter Nina. They find her as the queen of a particularly savage tribe, and try to bring her back to civilization.
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Pals of the Prairie
Title: Pals of the Prairie
Character: Francisco Valencia
Released: July 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Old timer Hank Robbins and his young pal,"Red" Hepner ride into the town of Cajon, Mexico and find it under a reign of terror imposed by a mysterious outlaw known as El Lobo. Don Jose Valencia is also upset over the romance between his son Francisco and saloon girl Dolores. Pete Sangor, an American resident, has his eye on the girl also. "Red" and Hank discover that Sangor is El Lobo, and ride to rescue the kidnapped Francisco.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Character: Esteban
Released: March 30, 1929
Type: Movie
This first cinematic version of the classic book is a part-talkie, although the only surviving print is silent (housed in the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY). It is a straight-forward telling of the intermingled lives of a group of strangers doomed to die in a collapsing bridge accident. The Art Direction, paltry and unremarkable, surprisingly won an Oscar over the far more remarkable work nominated in THE IRON MASK. The special effect scene of the lovers plummeting with the bridge into the chasm is unforgettable and remarkably done.
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Clothes Make the Woman
Title: Clothes Make the Woman
Released: June 4, 1928
Type: Movie
A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.