| The Gay Amigo | |
| Director: | Wallace Fox |
| Producer: | Philip N. Krasne |
| Based On: | O. Henry (character) |
| Starring: | Duncan Renaldo Leo Carrillo Armida |
| Music: | Albert Glasser |
| Cinematography: | Ernest Miller |
| Editing: | Martin G. Cohn |
| Studio: | Inter-American Productions |
| Distributor: | United Artists |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
The Gay Amigo is a 1949 American Western film starring Duncan Renaldo in the lead role of The Cisco Kid. This film was one entry in a series of Cisco Kid B Westerns[1] produced by Philip N. Krasne. Ziv Television Programs later advanced money to Krasne in order to purchase the television rights for the Cisco Kid.[2] Krasne later produced The O. Henry Playhouse.
Cisco and Pancho are at the border of the Arizona Territory and Mexico where they see a platoon of U.S. Cavalry pursuing what looks to be a band of bandidos. Escaping to Mexico, one of the bandidos falls off his horse. Cisco and Pancho see that not only is he dead, but he is actually a Norteamericano in charro costume. Cisco and Pancho use the U.S. Army, the local newspaper, a bar girl and a variety of respectable American citizens by playing them off against each other to discover the Americans attempting to blame Mexicans for stopping Arizona Statehood.