Fighting Caballero

A mischievous Mexican gunslinger and a lovely American insect expert provide plenty of headaches for a gang of counterfeiters in this offbeat B-Western action-comedy. "Devil" Jackson and his cutthroat henchmen kill a drilling engineer and take over a desert silver mine. But two undercover agents, the boisterous Joaquin Flores and his guitar-playing sidekick Pedro, manage to infiltrate the operation. Joining forces with Pat, the beautiful mine owner, the agents battle to take back possession of the priceless ore deposits.

Fighting Caballero was directed and co-written by the amazingly prolific Elmer Clifton, a Hollywood veteran who began as an actor (including a role in The Birth Of A Nation),introduced Clara Bow to the screen, and had a hand in more than 400 scripts! Amusingly, star Rex Lease - whose claim to fame was his fight scenes in Westerns, dating back to the silent days - insists that his comic sidekick do the fighting for him in the film's best action scene! - Tom Weaver

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