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This was great - haven't seen The Cisco Kid since I was very young. Love it
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I won't comment on the content, since other have already done so. Rather, I'll defend the quality of these prints, which I feel is very good, considering their age. No, these prints have not been digitally restored, and do not look like the current crop of new television shows on DVD. Considering their source, most likely 16mm prints from 57 years ago, they are in surprisingly good shape. Yes, the opening intro sequence is slightly pastel in color, and the image in the intro, titles, and "outro" is slightly soft. But the other 98 percent of the film is very good. I've only watched the first of the four volumes, but I have no complaints about the quality of the product.
The colors are very "primary", much like the three-strip Technicolor films from that era. On rare occassions, the contrast is such that the color of a face may darken slightly for a moment or two. But overall, the image is very good for a film source which was probably not given the best "preservation care" over the last half century, and the picture is surprisingly clean, free of scratches and other image debris.
These disks are not intended to knock-your-socks-off on your new 1080p Hi Def plasma television; but those who remember television when shows like this were new and when entertainment was the name of the game, will find these most entertaining indeed, and very satisfactory viewing.
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When I was a youngster growing up in the midwest, The Cisco Kid was one of my favorite and biggest heroes ~ many actors played the part from Warner Baxter ("The Cisco Kid"-1931, "Return of the Cisco Kid"-1939), Cesar Romero ("The Cisco Kid & the Lady"-1939, "Lucky Cisco Kid"-1940, "Viva Cisco Kid"-1940), Duncan Renaldo ("The Cisco Kid in Old New Mexico"-1945, "The Cisco Kid Returns"-1945), Gilbert Roland ("The Gay Cavalier"-1946, "South of Monterey"-1946, "Beauty and the Bandit"-1946, "Riding the California Trail"-1947, "Robin Hood of Monterey"-1947, "King of the Bandits"-1947) ~ each film followed the adventures of our famous Robin Hood of the Old West, O. Henry's The Cisco Kid.
The above films paved the way for one of the finest television series featuring Duncan Renaldo as Cisco and Leo Carillo as Pancho ~ also one of the first to be filmed in color, the episodes were half-hour in length and contained some of the character actors (Raymond Hatton) from B-Westerns of the '30s, '40s and '50s ~ the series ran from 1950-1956 ~ always with adventure, romance and comedy.
Renaldo was in his '60s and Carillo in his '70s when they appeared at the "Firemen's Rodeo" in St. Louis during the '50s ~ my Grandmother and Great Aunt took me to see them, and I believe both of them had a crush on the two actors ~ the two actors (Renaldo and Carillo) came galloping out into the center of the arena, every kid in attendance was in awe, as I was and when the show was over, I rode my imaginary horse home.
MPI Home Video now presents "The Cisco Kid Collection 1", with 20 episodes that will bring back all the good memories of your childhood ~ even though some of the clarity is not perfect, they are still the best that is around today ~ so saddle up and get ready for some hard riding and adventure that only The Cisco Kid and Pancho can deliver...gotta love it!
Total Time: 4-DVD-Set ~ MPI Media Group 7569 ~ (3/30/2004)
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Just a quick note to defend MPI on this release. Some of the reviewers have mentioned the soft focus and the shifting colors. When I used to watch this series years ago on WGN (Sundays at 12 Noon) and later on the old Family Channel cable network...it looked exactly as it does now on this DVD.
The ownership of the series shifted over the years and I'm sure any original material has long vanished. I also remember reading somewhere that the original producer, ZIV Television, shot this on 16mm to save money.
I'm very happy with this release and looking forward to Volume 2 as episodes from the later seasons have been included...many of the later episodes feature some great action sequences.
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I was very disappointed with the Cisco Kid Collection 1. I have fond memories of the old series and jumped at the chance to own it on DVD. The video quality is appallingly bad. The main title sequence is blurry. The quality of each episode varies from scene to scene, and sometimes it varies within the same scene from one camera shot to the next. For the price at which this collection is being sold, I expected the episodes to be digitally restored. This series deserves to have the same quality of restoration as the Lone Ranger collection. Maybe someone will do that one day.
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