El Cisco Kid

Sergeant Edmund Lowe is ordered by his colonel to go catch the Cisco Kid. There's a $5000 reward, dead or alive for Warner Baxter's curly-haired head, so Lowe sets out for the border region. There the two of them just miss each other as they alternately woo the same women: fiery entertainer Conchita Monenegro, and demure widow Nora Lane.

Irving Cummings directs this second sequel to 1929's IN OLD ARIZONA, with both men swaggering their ways through the proceedings. I give the edge to Baxter, who occasionally tells the truth, while Lowe's lower-class New Yawk accent occasionally slips. Chris-Pin Martin reappears as Gordito, as he would for the next eight years in the occasional series.

Barney McGill's outdoor photography is quite striking, with lots of saguaro cactuses caught in the Arizona location shooting.