Duncan Renaldo

Duncan Renaldo

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.

  • Title: Duncan Renaldo
  • Popularity: 2.065
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1904-04-23
  • Place of Birth: Oancea, Galați, Romania
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  • Also Known As: Renault Renaldo Duncan, Vasile Dumitru Cugheanos
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Duncan Renaldo Movies

  • 1950
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    The Capture

    The Capture

    6.1 1950 HD

    A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.

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  • 1941
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    Outlaws of the Desert

    Outlaws of the Desert

    1 1941 HD

    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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  • 1944
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    Hands Across the Border

    Hands Across the Border

    5.5 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1931
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    Trader Horn

    Trader Horn

    5.3 1931 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    South of the Border

    South of the Border

    5 1939 HD

    A federal agent and his partner hang out in Mexico to check a revolution.

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  • 1938
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    Spawn of the North

    Spawn of the North

    5.611 1938 HD

    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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  • 1936
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    Rebellion

    Rebellion

    6 1936 HD

    In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-grabbers kill her father and begin harassing her....

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  • 1972
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    Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    6 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1929
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    Pals of the Prairie

    Pals of the Prairie

    1 1929 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    Down Mexico Way

    Down Mexico Way

    1 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    San Antonio Kid

    San Antonio Kid

    1 1944 HD

    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....

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  • 1934
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    The Moth

    The Moth

    1 1934 HD

    Wealthy young socialite Diane Wyman squanders her fortune and becomes involved in a scandalous raid at a wild party. Her legal guardian, a lecherous...

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  • 1929
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    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    7.5 1929 HD

    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,...

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  • 1939
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    Cowboys from Texas

    Cowboys from Texas

    2 1939 HD

    Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay...

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  • 1937
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    Zorro Rides Again

    Zorro Rides Again

    7 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    Special Agent K-7

    Special Agent K-7

    3.8 1936 HD

    Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up the feds, Lanny tackles a baffling espionage case....

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  • 1940
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    Heroes of the Saddle

    Heroes of the Saddle

    1 1940 HD

    A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three cowboy pals promising to...

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  • 1936
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    Lady Luck

    Lady Luck

    5 1936 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    Jungle Flight

    Jungle Flight

    5.9 1947 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    Ten Laps to Go

    Ten Laps to Go

    4 1936 HD

    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...

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  • 1940
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    Covered Wagon Days

    Covered Wagon Days

    1 1940 HD

    Stony Brooke, Rusty Joslin and Rico, the Three Mesquiteers, are returning from Mexico and are stopped at the border by Army officials, who are...

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  • 1941
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    King of the Texas Rangers

    King of the Texas Rangers

    6 1941 HD

    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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  • 1937
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    Jungle Menace

    Jungle Menace

    5 1937 HD

    Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.

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  • 1937
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    Sky Racket

    Sky Racket

    3.3 1937 HD

    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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  • 1940
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    Oklahoma Renegades

    Oklahoma Renegades

    1 1940 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    Gauchos of El Dorado

    Gauchos of El Dorado

    1 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    Moonlight Murder

    Moonlight Murder

    5 1936 HD

    An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.

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  • 1940
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    Pioneers of the West

    Pioneers of the West

    1 1940 HD

    Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by Lester Orlebeck.

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  • 1944
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    The Tiger Woman

    The Tiger Woman

    6 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    Two Minutes to Play

    Two Minutes to Play

    5 1936 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    The Lone Ranger Rides Again

    The Lone Ranger Rides Again

    6 1939 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    Rough Riders' Round-up

    Rough Riders' Round-up

    6 1939 HD

    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,...

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  • 1949
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    The Daring Caballero

    The Daring Caballero

    6 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1946
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    Jungle Terror

    Jungle Terror

    1 1946 HD

    Re-edited feature film version of the 1937 serial, Jungle Menace.

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  • 1948
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    Sword of the Avenger

    Sword of the Avenger

    8 1948 HD

    Roberto Balagtas is falsely arrested for treason and sent to prison where he is tortured. He escapes with other prisoners, but only Batagtas survives...

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  • 1937
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    Mile a Minute Love

    Mile a Minute Love

    6 1937 HD

    William Bakewell stars as an inventor who develops a high-powered boat engine. Bakewell, of course, created this wonder machine to benefit...

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  • 1938
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    Rose of the Rio Grande

    Rose of the Rio Grande

    1 1938 HD

    The story, based on a novel by Johnston (Zorro) McCulley, concerns a group of aristocratic vigilantes, who go about trying to restore their...

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  • 1939
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    The Kansas Terrors

    The Kansas Terrors

    1 1939 HD

    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...

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  • 1940
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    Rocky Mountain Rangers

    Rocky Mountain Rangers

    1 1940 HD

    Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty...

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  • 1945
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    In Old New Mexico

    In Old New Mexico

    1 1945 HD

    Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" murder suspect Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove her innocence, all with the cooperation of a sympathetic...

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  • 1949
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    The Gay Amigo

    The Gay Amigo

    6.5 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    The Cisco Kid Returns

    The Cisco Kid Returns

    8 1945 HD

    After several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with Monogram's The Cisco Kid Returns. Duncan Renaldo,...

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  • 1941
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    South of Panama

    South of Panama

    6 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    A Yank in Libya

    A Yank in Libya

    4.3 1942 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    Tiger Fangs

    Tiger Fangs

    4 1943 HD

    A big-game hunter travels to Malaya to help stop the Nazis and Japanese from destroying the rubber industry.

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  • 1940
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    Gaucho Serenade

    Gaucho Serenade

    1 1940 HD

    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...

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  • 1932
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    Trapped in Tia Juana

    Trapped in Tia Juana

    4 1932 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    6.542 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    Call of the South Seas

    Call of the South Seas

    5 1944 HD

    FBI Agent Kendall Gaige goes undercover on a South Seas island in order to expose the underhanded and exploitative business practices of Steve...

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  • 1944
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    The Fighting Seabees

    The Fighting Seabees

    6.2 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1950
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    The Girl from San Lorenzo

    The Girl from San Lorenzo

    1 1950 HD

    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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  • 1937
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    The Painted Stallion

    The Painted Stallion

    4.5 1937 HD

    American federal agent Clark Stuart is on assignment in Santa Fe to draw up a trade agreement with the newly installed Mexican governor. Meanwhile,...

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  • 1942
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    King of the Mounties

    King of the Mounties

    1 1942 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    Sheriff of Sundown

    Sheriff of Sundown

    1 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    South of the Rio Grande

    South of the Rio Grande

    1 1945 HD

    The Kid (Duncan Renaldo) masquerades as a government inspector in this pleasant, and pleasantly tuneful, Cisco Kid series entry. Learning that his...

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  • 1949
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    Satan's Cradle

    Satan's Cradle

    4.2 1949 HD

    Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. This time, Cisco takes on a frontier...

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  • 1948
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    The Valiant Hombre

    The Valiant Hombre

    1 1948 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    Bad Men of Missouri

    Bad Men of Missouri

    5.6 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    Border Patrol

    Border Patrol

    6 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1928
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    Clothes Make the Woman

    Clothes Make the Woman

    1 1928 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    Around the World

    Around the World

    5 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    Mission to Moscow

    Mission to Moscow

    5.2 1943 HD

    Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

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  • 1938
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    Tropic Holiday

    Tropic Holiday

    5.5 1938 HD

    A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.

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  • 1939
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    The Mad Empress

    The Mad Empress

    5.6 1939 HD

    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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  • 1934
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    Public Stenographer

    Public Stenographer

    4.5 1934 HD

    A stenographer who works at a large hotel finds herself caught in the middle of a major swindle.

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  • 1943
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    Secret Service In Darkest Africa

    Secret Service In Darkest Africa

    5 1943 HD

    An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.

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  • 1947
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    Bells of San Fernando

    Bells of San Fernando

    4 1947 HD

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  • 1947
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    Bells of San Fernando

    Bells of San Fernando

    4 1947 HD

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  • 1947
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    Bells of San Fernando

    Bells of San Fernando

    4 1947 HD

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  • 1946
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    Don Ricardo Returns

    Don Ricardo Returns

    1 1946 HD

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  • 1951
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    The Lady and the Bandit

    The Lady and the Bandit

    6 1951 HD

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  • 1928
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    The Love Charm

    The Love Charm

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1937
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    Mile a Minute Love

    Mile a Minute Love

    6 1937 HD

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  • 1949
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    Satan's Cradle

    Satan's Cradle

    4.2 1949 HD

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  • 1950
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    The Cisco Kid

    The Cisco Kid

    6.4 1950 HD

    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...

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  • 1978
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    Western von gestern

    Western von gestern

    7.5 1978 HD

    Western von gestern is a German television series.

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