Robin Hood of Monterey (1947)

Eduardo Belmonte overhears his new stepmother Maria and her lover Don Ricardo Gonzales plotting to take over the Belmonte rancho on the night of the fiesta given by her husband Don Carlos Belmonte Eduardo offers Maria money if she will depart the hacienda premises but she refuses and then accuses Eduardo of making love to her The old Don doesnt take kindly to his son hitting on his stepmother and attacks him in a rage The lights go out the father is killed and Maria blames Eduardo who escapes from the house chased by Ricardos men The Cisco Kid and Pancho rescue Eduardo who has been shot and hide him while they investigate Cisco discovers that bullets from Marias gun a handy little derringer are the same type that killed Don Carlos But the Alcalde arrests Cisco and Pancho and Cisco is supposedly executed by a firing squad but IS NOT shot and escapes by a trick And now Maria and Ricardo are in real trouble with Cisco on the loose