The Arizona Wildcat (1939) DVD-R

Starring Jane Withers, Leo Carrilo, Pauline Moore, William Henry, Henry
Wilcoxon, Douglas Fowley
Directed by Herbert I. Leeds

Print: black/white
Runtime: 69 min.
Genre: western
Print Quality: B

Mary Jane Patterson finds an old poster in the attic offering a reward for
the capture of bandit "El Gato", whom she recognizes as Manuel
Hernandez, her adopted father. He jokingly tells her that the members of
his band, which robbed from the rich to give to the poor, ar now all
respected citizens in their town of Mineville, Arizona. Donald Clark
(William Henry), a stranger, recognizes the crooked town-Sheriff Richard
Baldwin (Henry Wilcoxin) as the man he is hunting as the murdered of his
father, but is outdrawn and shot by the sheriff. The wounded Clark
escapes and makes his way to Manuel's house, where a group is
entertaining schoolteacher Caroline Reid (Pauline Moore.) The sheriff
and his men capture Clark, but Mary Jane mounts a horse and gallops
away, and throws a rock through the windows of each member of El
Gato's band with a message reading: "Be prepared---We Ride Again. El
Gato." And also a note into the sheriff's office warning him that El Gato
will ride again unless Clark is released inside of 24 hours. Manuel knows
nothing of this the next day when he walks down the street and is puzzled
by the mysterious winks of his friends and their whispered assurances
that they are ready. But he leads his men against the sheriff, and soon
finds himself under arrest and on trial charged with kidnapping the
prisoner, stealing a gold shipment and killing the Wells Fargo agent.