Riding the California Trail

If you are looking for an exciting action-adventure film, then you might want to keep looking. That's because this film is probably the least action-packed one you can find. Through so much of the film, Cisco (Gilbert Roland) either is making eyes at women or very, very slowly and leisurely evading the law. It's actually funny to see the posse chasing him and he actually stops to chat up a pretty señorita! The plot involves Cisco romancing and discovering that a rich young lady has a jerky uncle who is planning on stealing her inheritance.

Some deficits of this film are many people (especially the ladies) who don't sound the least bit Mexican (though they play Mexican characters), a slow and uneventful plot and a total lack of energy. On the plus side, the film is pleasant enough...and Cisco's sidekick is quite funny (especially during the sword fighting scene). Watchable but not at all distinguished.