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narrator: Here's adventure.

Here's romance.

Here's O. Henry's famous Robin Hood of the Old West,

"The Cisco Kid"!

No gunplay, Gibbs.

I just want him to understand that he's not to come around

my spread.

I'll take care of him with my hands.

man: That's good enough for me.

Cisco, look at that big bully.

He's whipping that little fellow and he's two times as heavy.

He's no match for him, Pancho.

That's not fair!

He's had enough, Gibbs.

I'm gonna give him one last boot for luck.

Hey, what are you butting in for?

It's clear enough the young fellow is no match for you.

Pancho: Why you beat him up?

I told him to stay off my place and keep away from

my daughter.

Here's your gun.

What do you have to say about this?

He won't talk, eh?

Well, I guess I taught him a lesson.

I think you went a little too far.

I'm Henry Tracy.

This is my foreman, Gibbs.

I'm the Cisco Kid.

How do you do, sir?

This is my good friend, Pancho.

How are you, sir?

Buenos dias.

And so you won't think there's anything wrong going on,

the fight was a personal matter.

I assure you this is the end of it.

Where are you fellas heading?

Well, we was on our way to Greenville to meet a friend

of ours, circuit court Judge Kendall.

Elias Kendall.

Yeah, odd old duck, isn't he?

Well, I hope I see you again before you leave town.

Same here.

Good-bye, sir.

Good-bye.

Cisco, he called the judge a duck.

Good morning, Judge Kendall.

Oh, well, good morning, Cisco, Pancho.

Good morning, Judge.

Yeah, how'd you sleep?

Oh, Judge, I sleep good.

I sleep like a little Chihuahua dog in the hot sunshine.

Well, that's good.

Well, I guess we'll have to talk business here.

You know, I have to set up court wherever I can, whenever I hit

a town.

Your Honor, just why did you send for us?

Well, you see, Cisco, the fellow who's a marshal here,

he up and died last week.

And I thought that maybe you two fellas could help me out.

Pancho could be my bailiff, and you could be my temporary

marshal.

Thank you, Your Honor.

We'll try to do everything we can for you.

Yeah, but this little book you gave me last night, it don't

taught me nothing about this, what you call them, balliffs?

Bailiffs?

Well, it's not supposed to.

That's an almanac.

Pancho, that book has a lot of very important information

in it.

Oh, I know, Cisco, it's full of good things.

I'm going to take it down to the hacienda and show

my Uncle Tito.

You know, my Uncle Tito is my father's cousin on

my mother's side.

And this book tell him when to plant the frijoles.

You plant them in the quarter of the moon and in the full moon.

And if you don't plant them then, the frijoles don't grow.

I'm never without a copy of it.

All I need is my docket book here, the Bible, my almanac.

You know, I found out years ago that a man could get just about

all the law he needs out of this good book.

That is, if he reads it with a lot of good horse sense.

There wouldn't be as much crime around, Judge,

if everybody felt like you do.

Thank you, Cisco.

Now, Cisco, I want you to serve this warrant for me.

It's for the murder of Henry Tracy.

Henry Tracy?

Mm-hmm.

Why, we met that man yesterday.

When was he killed?

Well, last night after you fellas went to bed.

A young fellow by the name of Dorsey Knudsen has been accused

of shooting him.

He was accused by Tracy's ranch foreman.

A fellow by the name of Gibbs.

Gibbs?

Cisco, isn't that the big fellow who beat up that little fellow?

That's right, Pancho.

This Mr. Tracy had Gibbs try to convince this young fellow

not to see his daughter anymore.

Only, Gibbs went too far.

I wonder if that could've been Dorsey Knudsen.

You know, he's been mighty sweet on her.

Don't bother to put any shells in that gun.

All right, Sheriff, I reckon you got me.

You bet I have.

Come on, we're going into town.

Sure.

Sure, anything you say.

What's going on here?

Why the gun?

That's a good question for the man that killed my father.

What are you talking about?

You're close enough.

What happened to your father?

We're wasting a lot of talk.

I know you shot him.

Isn't that enough?

Look, honey, you're out of your mind.

If anything's happened to your father, I want to help.

Why, you can't be serious-- I'm warning you, Dorsey,

that's close enough.

I know you killed my father last night.

And nothing you say can change that.

Oh.

I shot your father last night?

So today I'm just sitting around here taking it easy.

Why, if I had done anything like that, I'd be miles from

here by now.

Yes, I guess maybe you would.

Take it easy, honey.

I know how you must feel about losing your father.

Let's talk this over.

Dorsey, I'm so mixed up, I don't know what to think.

Now, just tell me what happened and I'll do everything

in my power to help.

(horses approaching) Two men I met yesterday.

They did me a big favor.

I wonder what they want now.

Are you Dorsey Knudsen?

That's right.

Sure, Cisco.

That's the same one.

Yes, I know, Pancho.

What do you want?

I have a warrant for your arrest for the murder

of Henry Tracy.

Well, I admit you saw me fighting with Gibbs, but

I haven't seen her father since you stopped the fight.

Just a minute.

I'm sorry, Miss Tracy.

I had no idea who you were.

It's all right.

You had me fooled for a minute.

Gibbs didn't tell me about the fight.

Carmel, you've got to listen to me.

This whole thing's a mistake.

Señorita, por favor, put away the pistola.

Oh, no.

Not until he signs a confession that he killed my father.

Don't worry about that, señorita.

Judge Kendall will get all the evidence.

I think my way is best.

I'm taking no chances of him getting off light with

a tricky lawyer.

Don't move.

Señorita, even if you got a written confession from him,

under these conditions, it would be worthless.

I assure you, if this man is guilty, he'll pay for his crime.

Señorita, what Cisco say is the truth.

Judge Kendall, he use the Bible and the good horse sense,

and he will get on top and on the bottom of this whole thing.

I warned you.

Now, señorita, you're not the kind of a person who would

shoot me or anybody else.

Please.

I guess you're right.

That's better.

Thank you, señorita.

Now, see here-- Señor, don't talk

so much here.

Wait and use all those words in the courthouse with the judge.

All right, let's go.

I won't have any trouble proving my innocence.

And, for your information, I won't need a jury

or a tricky lawyer.

You know this, this-- what do you call it?-- an almanac book

is a wonderful thing, eh?

It tell you all about the stars and the moons and the ocean

and the tides and when to catch the fish and when don't not to

catch the fish.

And it say here too that you can send a letter anyplace in

the United States for 2 cents.

And it say over here, it say a man invented clock and a watch

who will run eight days without winding.

(chuckles) I wonder how long it'll run if

you wind it.

Yeah, I'd like to have one of them watches, but I don't think

I can afford it.

Cisco, this book say you can send a letter anyplace in

the United States for 2 cents.

That's fine, Pancho, if you had anybody to write to.

If I got somebody to write to?

I got lots of people to write to.

Oh, those señoritas down in Tijuana and Ensenada.

There's Conchita and Maria, and I can write to them, Cisco.

Hey, Pancho.

What?

Have you got the 2 cents?

Well, maybe no, but I can mail the mailman.

Maybe he can take my IOU him.

Well, Cisco, where's Dorsey?

I got Dorsey locked up.

He still says he's innocent.

He claims that all we have is circumstantial evidence.

Hmm.

Yeah, I ain't so keen on circumstantial evidence myself,

but this case has a lot of strong points

to substantiate it.

You know, Dorsey and Tracy, they did have a lot of trouble.

But, I don't know, I kinda like that young fella.

So do I, Judge.

Hmm.

Well, here's a couple of subpoenas for you to serve.

That's one on Miss Tracy and that's one on her foreman,

Gibbs.

Fine.

I'll ride out to their place.

Good.

Cisco.

How do you do, señorita?

What are you doing here?

Señorita, I brought a subpoena for you to appear at

the trial.

I also have one for Mr. Gibbs.

He's at the barn.

Thank you.

Can't the judge hear the trial before a week?

I'm sorry, señorita, but he has to clear the other cases off

the docket first.

What does Dorsey have to say?

Well, he still says he's not guilty.

Very convincingly too, I suppose.

Señorita, why was your father so set against Dorsey

seeing you?

I really don't know.

He and Dorsey had a violent argument some weeks ago.

About what?

I don't know.

Except Dorsey did hint to my father that something funny was

going on around our ranch.

Funny?

That's all I know.

What are you thinking?

Well, señorita, I was just thinking about a terrible

bitterness between you and the man you love--

Regardless of how I felt about Dorsey, I loved my father

very much.

Well, of course, señorita.

I'm sorry.

Good day.

Good day.

Señorita?

Señorita Tracy, one more thing.

Was your foreman ever in the army?

Yes.

And I'll tell you right now, Mr. Gibbs is a thoroughly

reliable man.

Thank you, señorita.

Good day.

Good day.

Señorita, you're gonna swore that everything you say in this

courthouse is going to be the truth, the whole truth,

and everything but the truth?

I do.

Sit in this chair, please.

Now, before I proceed with the first witness, I want to say

to the defendant, Dorsey Knudsen, has waived his rights

to a jury trial.

And I don't need a lawyer either.

Silence in this courtroom.

And I also want to say that the court has reserved the right

to exclude the public from this case.

Now, I'm not operating with a prosecuting attorney.

So, Miss Tracy, I'm gonna ask you a few questions and then

I'm gonna have my friend, Cisco, take over for me.

Yes, sir.

Well, you just tell the court, Miss Tracy, in your

own words what you know about this case.

I know that my father and Dorsey had a violent argument

several weeks ago.

Good.

That's right, you go ahead now, Miss Tracy.

Well, that's about all I can tell you.

I was in town that night.

Mr. Gibbs has the most important testimony.

Would you like to ask the witness any questions, Cisco?

Not at this time.

Thank you very much, Your Honor.

You may stand down, Miss Tracy.

Bailiff, call the next witness.

Will Mr. Ben Gibbs come to forwards?

You don't have to yell your head off.

I'm right here.

A bailiff got to yell off his head all the time.

Raise up your right hand, please.

You solemnly swore to tell the truth--

Yeah, yeah.

Uh, Mr. Gibbs, Cisco is gonna take over for a few minutes.

That's all right with me.

Thank you, Judge Kendall.

And now, Mr. Gibbs, will you please tell the court what you

saw the night Mr. Tracy was killed?

Yeah, I'd be glad to.

I was in the bunkhouse.

It was about 9:30, and I heard a shot.

I ran outside.

I didn't know where it came from but I had a good idea.

Then I saw him running away.

I knew there was a horse out there somewhere because I saw

him ride off.

Then I found old man Tracy out by the barn.

He was shot in the back and he was dead.

You're lying, Gibbs.

Silencio.

I will not be quiet!

Why, the last time I saw Tracy, he was alive.

That was out by my shack where I fought with Gibbs.

You two men were there.

I never went near Carmel's house that night.

Señor Dorsey, any more outburst like that, you will be

rejected from the courtroom to the full content of the law.

Oh, no, I can't do that because we wouldn't have no more trial.

Proceed, Cisco.

If what you said is the truth, then you are

an eyewitness to that man's running away.

But you are not an eyewitness to the actual shooting.

Well, that's good enough for me.

Well, actually, Mr. Gibbs, what you're doing is giving

nothing but circumstantial evidence.

Mr. Gibbs.

You said you heard the shot and you ran out and you saw

Mr. Dorsey running away.

Now, how far was he from you?

Oh, I don't know, about 50, 75 yards.

It must've been that far.

If he'd have been any closer, I'd have got him.

Mr. Gibbs, it was night.

It was very dark, wasn't it?

Yeah, it was night but I could see him plain.

How plain?

Well, the moon was up and I could see him real plain.

Would you say it was full moon?

Yeah, yeah, that's it.

Full moon.

Why, I could see him as plain as I can see you now.

Judge Kendall, do I have to let him question me anymore?

Have you got something to hide?

I got nothing to hide.

Fire away.

Mr. Gibbs, if I remember correctly, there was no

moonlight at all that night.

You can't make a liar out of me.

I know what I saw.

And I also think I know what you couldn't see.

Cisco has a point there.

Go ahead, Cisco.

Your honor, this is the point I wanted to make.

There was no moonlight that night that Mr. Tracy got killed.

And you, Mr. Gibbs, you couldn't see a man plain enough

to recognize him at a distance of ten yards any more

than 50 yards.

Well, I know what I could see or what I couldn't see.

Your Honor.

Pancho, give me that almanac.

Your Honor, please take a look at the date of the night

in question.

And also, will you please notice the marking for the night

for the moon.

By golly, it's right here in black and white.

There wasn't any moon!

Well, Mr. Gibbs?

All right, so there wasn't any moon.

But that doesn't prove Dorsey didn't kill old man Tracy.

It certainly doesn't prove he did.

Are you trying to free this killer?

Maybe you think you can blame the murder on me.

There's one thing for sure, Mr. Gibbs.

I can lock you up for perjury.

Perjury?

Who can say I'm lying about what I saw or didn't see?

For the time being, Mr. Gibbs, I can't say

you're lying about seeing a man running away.

But I can say you're lying about recognizing a man

by moonlight that wasn't there.

That's perjury, and I'm holding you.

I demand bail.

According to the statues, that's your privilege.

I set the bail at $250.

All right.

$150...

$200...

$250.

Mr. Gibbs.

How is it that you carry so much money with you?

There's no law against it, is there?

Oh, no, of course not.

But it is very unusual for a ranch foreman to have so much

money in his pocket.

Well, I'm thrifty.

I save all my pennies and I don't like banks.

Judge, can I leave now?

Yes, you can go now, Gibbs.

But don't leave the county and be here at Tuesday morning

at 9:00 a.m.

Thanks, Cisco.

It's all right, Dorsey.

Am I free now, Judge?

No, no, not exactly, son.

You see, all we did was prove that Gibbs was lying

about the moon.

Now I gotta lock you up again.

All right, come on, son.

We don't want any trouble.

Don't worry.

I think Cisco's gonna prove that you didn't do nothing at all.

Now I know he's innocent.

Do you think you can clear him, Cisco?

Señorita, I promise you, we'll do everything possible.

Oh, thank you.

You know, Cisco, it's a good thing I read that almanac,

because I'm gonna read it some more then maybe I can solve

this whole case by myself alone.

Cisco, you're not listening to me.

Oh, yes, Pancho.

I was just thinking about Gibbs.

Suppose he jumps bail?

We'll never get to the bottom of this case.

What are you gonna do?

We better go out to the Tracy place.

You gonna look for something?

Yes, Pancho.

I want to show you how Mr. Gibbs dries animal skins.

Animal skins, I know how to dry the animal skins.

You take the animal skins and you--

Yes, Pancho.

But not the way he does it.

Come on.

What's he doing over there, Cisco?

Those are army signals, Pancho.

The first one he made in the shape of a triangle.

It means the enemy's close, do not advance.

Now he's changed it to a square.

That means it is safe, advance.

Cisco, that's why you say he's in the army?

Yes.

Let's go over there and take him prisoner.

I'll make him talk.

Not yet, Pancho.

Let's see for whom he's making the signals first.

(horses approaching) There they are.

I told you so.

Yes, there's two of them, Cisco.

All right, hurry up!

Get it back in here and I'll close the door.

Look, they're backing in the barn.

Cisco, now we grab them, eh?

Not yet, Pancho.

Wait a minute.

I have an idea.

We'll wait until they come out.

What are you gonna do?

Go send me upstairs.

Send you upstair-- we got no stairs here, Cisco.

Pancho, we do have.

You'll see.

Come on.

Here we are, Pancho.

Cisco, that ain't no stairs.

It's a block and pulley.

I know it, but you're gonna pull me up above the door.

Come on, quick.

I'm gonna pull you?

Now I'm the stairs, huh?

Pancho, go on.

Hurry up.

Cisco, you are heavy like a sack of frijoles.

Never mind how heavy I am.

Hurry up.

Open those doors and let's get out of here.

Look, Cisco, I got mine upstairs.

He's gonna be hanging around here for a long time.

(giggles) Those two men who rode in

the wagon were army deserters.

They were stealing army supplies and selling them.

That's how they made so much money.

And they was using Mr. Tracy's barn

as a hideout place.

Carmel, your father found out what his foreman was doing.

That's why Gibbs committed the crime.

And we got a full confession from one of Gibbs's pals.

Well, I hope you youngsters have straightened out all

your difficulties.

We're waiting for the judge now.

I hope he comes soon before she changes her mind again.

What do you mean?

There's gonna be a wedding?

And Pancho, we want you to be the best man.

Oh, I always been the best man.

Except Cisco.

Oh, Pancho.

Oh, Cisco!

(both laugh) Cisco, do we have to leave

all our good friends now?

Only until next time, Pancho.

Adios, amigos!