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Gate of Death | The Cisco Kid (09-23-54)
Original Air Date: September 23, 1954Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Cisco KidPhone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739) Stars:• Jack Mather (Cisco)• Harry Lang (Poncho) Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK
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Foreign welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host, Andrew Rines, and I'm excited to bring you another episode absolutely free. This is one of over 80 episodes released monthly for your enjoyment. Now let's get into this episode. Here's adventure, here's romance. Here's the famous Robin Hood of the Old West. Cisco. He. Sheriff, he is getting closer this way. Pancho Famano, the Cisco kids. There. The Cisco Kid in our gripping story, Gate of Death. In the Old west, most men who evaded the law did so to get money. Not so Walter Berger. For Berger was wealthy. He evaded the law because he hated the law and because despite his soft speech and educated ways, there was a killer streaking him. And so, as our story opens, Burger and one of his men, the squat, deadly rifleman Phil Snave, are standing by a heavy gate built across a road that winds into a high walled canyon. You can't get away with it for long, Mr. Burger. Why not? Because this here's a public road built for seven miles across my land. Yeah, even so, it's legal. The state condemned the property so's the road could be built. That's true enough, Snave. And they refuse to let me make a toll road out of it. Hence this gate. Of course, I can't prevent anyone from opening this gate and using the road according to the law. But the minute they do, you'll fire on them from the cliffs yonder. Shoot to kill. Huh? Shoot to kill. I think it won't be long before the word spreads and travelers will pay anyway. It should provide. Good sport, Snaith. Excellent sport. It's all right with me as long as you keep on paying me for it. Oh, you'll get your money. Look, Snaith, here comes our first customer. Or victim, as the case may be. Yeah, a mule drawn Conestoga wagon coming up the trade. Get back into hiding. And remember, if I raise my left arm, shoot to kill. I don't care. Hot harden. You can talk all you want to. You're doing all the talking. You keep quiet and listen to me. There wasn't any need of our coming ahead and leaving my brother behind. Oh, don't make such a fuss about it, Esther. Moose wanted to rest a lame pack animal. He'll be along in a few more hours. Well, we could have waited for him. I ain't in that much of a hurry to get to our new land in the west. Well, I am. I've. Quit jawing, woman. I'll jar all I want to who knows? We might meet bandits anywhere along here. And we'd need Moose's help to fight them all. Bandits, nothing. Now, watch this gate ahead of us. Ho, ho, ho. Hey, you, mister. Open up that blasted gate. Keep quiet, Esther. I'll do the talking. What's the idea of that gate in this? A public road? Yes. Well, then, what about it? There's nothing in the law, as it now reads, that says I can't put up a gate on my own land, and this is my land. Then open up that gate. No. Look here, you. By thunder, I'll be glad to open the gate for you when you pay me $20. $20? Well, that's a confounded outrage. Oh, quit arguing with him, Hod. Go on, open the gate yourself. That's just what I'm gonna do. It's only fair to warn you that you do so at your own risk. I ain't scared of you, if that's what you. I warned you. Building a gate across it. Bob. Oh, Hobby. You killed him, you coyote. You killed him. Well, you can see for yourself I have no weapon, ma'. Am. You killed him, you buzzard, you. The sheriff's going to hear about this just as fast as I can get there. Now, get out. Get where we meet Senor Moose, Cisco. We are going to meet him right here, Pancho. The road to the west crosses the road to town. We're going to help Senor Moose, his sister and her husband get settled in their new home. Pancho not meet the sisters yet, Cisco? Neither have I, Chico, nor the sisters, Osmond. They've come out here from the east. And they, together with Senor Moose, plan to buy some cattle and raise them for the marker. Santos. What is this? Look like a big wagon. Run away, Cisco. See, in the way it is bouncing around, it might overturn unless we can stop those mules. Say, Pancho, I'll have to jump to the back of the lead mule. Try to stop him. Let me scare see you in thunder. Scared, you plastic bandit. Help, Yellow, help. Yeah. There. Now I will jump. Yeah. Slack off on the reins, senora. I have them. Now slack off on the rein. Easy. In a hurl of a hurch. I helped you down from the wagon, signora. No, you won't. Get away from me or I'll blast you with this gunk. No, no, seora. Hey, look at signora. We're not bandino. As far as I'm concerned, everybody in this confounded country is a bandit. Come on, Tremir. Be careful with that shotgun, senora. Here. Here, Let me have that. Get away there now. Pancho and I are not banderas, Senora. We are here to meet our friends, your Moose McCallum. Moose McCallum? Why, he's my brother. I suspected as much. I am called the Cisco Kid. And this Cisco Kid. Sure, I've heard Moose speak of you many a time. But I can't stop talk to you now, Cisco. Some two legged buzzard back at the canyon gate gunned down my husband. The canyon gate? Yeah, and I'm going on my way to the sheriff's. Get up, mules. Get up. Banshaw. We had better look into this. Come. We will also go to the sheriff. There. I told you the story, Sheriff. Now what you going to do? Nothing now. Nothing. But my husband was shot and killed. Yep. Well then course you're going to do something. And mighty quick too. Hombre got killed east of here too. Gotta attend to that first. How soon will you be back, Senor Sheriff? Dunno. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe day after. Then perhaps you will not mind if Pancho and I investigate this shooting. Yep, I do mind. We investigate anyway. No, I'll look into this when I get back. Done enough talking now. One thing, Sheriff. You heard the senor describe the hombre who stood beside that gate. Who would he be? Sounds like Walter Berger owns all that canyon land. What kind of an hombre is this? Walter Burger Come here three years ago. Bought that land. All his mind at his own business. I'll investigate as soon as I get back. Meanwhile, Poncho and I will have a look out there. Sheriff. Keep out of my business or I'll arrest you. Why, a thin lipped galoot of a sheriff done enough talking. Leaving now, Senora. You stay here in the town for the time being. But Moose will be along pretty soon. Cisco. He's got to be warned about that gate. We are keeping him in mind, Senora. What about the sheriff? He set up here mixed into his business. I am not worrying about the sheriff. This other matter is far more important right now. That gate might sound good, Xisco. No, it does not. We are going to ride out there right now to have a look at it. We'll be back as soon as we can, Senora. Come, Pacho. Whoa, whoa. Thought I'd find you here at the house, Mr. Burger. I got some news for you. What's the news? Ever hear of an armbrer named the Cisco Kid? The Cisco Kid? Yes, yes, I've heard of him. What about him? I just got back from town. I saw him there. Go on. Him and the fat one. That rides with him and the woman that was in the wagon there was all in the sheriff's office. Good, good. Go on. What's the rest of it? Well, that's all I thought you'd better know. That Cisco Kid starts snooping around here. I know all about the Cisco Kid. And if I could get him, my cup would be full to overflowing. Had a run in with him once, huh? The Cisco Kid sent me to prison for forgery. Yeah. My name wasn't Burger then, and my appearance was considerably different. I wore a beard then. And while I was in that prison, I swore to get him someday. And if he was in the sheriff's office with that woman, he'll know the story and he'll ride out here. There's a couple of riders way back on the road, Mr. Burger. Riders? Let me see those glasses. Yeah, that's the Cisco Kid, Snave. The Cisco Kid and his partner. We can take care of him easy, boss. I'll gun him down at the gate. Seems I did that other. No, no. I want Cisco to know who I am before he dies. And I want him to know there's no way he can block my Gate of Death. Go get Jim and Archer Snaith and tell them to come here quickly. That the gate ahead of us, Xisco? I would think so, Pancho. Stop here for a moment and look it over. That gate not there when we arrived. This way before, Xisco. We have not ridden through this country for a long time, amigo. But that gate is new, hombre Mean to block off the road, no see. And because the mouth of the canyon is narrow and barbed wire stretches from side to side, travelers cannot get around the gate and onto that public road again. It's no good for travelers, Cisco. The senhora said these Burger hombre wanted payment of $20 on the public road. No. There is someone riding down toward the gate. That may be, Senhor Burger. Let us go see. We go see. Abdielacon. Gologo. Gologo. Go see. Go see. Did you ever see that hombre before, Cisco? Do not think so, Pancho. Although he is somehow familiar. Somehow familiar. What is the meaning of this gate, senor? Yeah, what's the meaning of this gate, seor? For $20, I'll open the gate and let you pass through. Or you can open it yourself and pass through. And if we do open the gate ourselves? That's your privilege, stranger. Aren't you? I've heard that over his voice before. You record it. Aren't you not hearing before 6pm no, Mona, for now. There is talk around the town that a Senor Harden was shot down after he opened this gate. I don't know a thing about it. I trust that hombre Cisco. His face too smooth. No whiskey. Watch him closely, Chico. Very well, senor. I will open the gate myself. Watch those cliffs, Pancho. Yeah, Pancho. Watch the cliffs. Pancho. If I should be shot down by an unseen rifleman, turn your guns on this hombre at once. School at once. I don't know what you're salary of, stranger. Nobody's gonna shoot at you. It is well if they do not. So far so good, Poncho. We'll ride for a way into the canyon. Here, Dablo. Go now. Go, Go, you sayor. We'll be glad of your company riding just ahead of us. Anything you say. You there, somebody nice and polite. Cisco. But I do not like his manner. I'm more sure than ever that he and I have met somewhere before. How far we ride up in the canyon, Cisco? Oh, we'll not ride much farther, amigo. Already the canyon wharves tower on either side of us. Big rocky cliffs, legisluces. See, A rifleman could hide in any one of a hundred places and still be within sight of the gate. Now, boys, that's the stuff. You got him. Bag him off that horse. I'll get the fat. All right. Get the fat one, Hom. The fat one's gonna get you. That's what he gonna do. Get Cisco. Get Cisco. Santos, if I could get my arms free of this rope, I'll gun whip him myself. Oh, nice work, boys. Nice work. I waited a long time for this, but I finally got him. And this time, the Cisco Kid. And there's no doubt that Burger means exactly what he says and that Cisco's minutes of life are numbered. In just a moment, we'll return to the Cisco Kid. Now back to the Cisco Kid in our gripping story, Gate of Death. When a public road was built over his land, Walter Berger, who hated the law, built a large gate at the canyon entrance. He told travelers that he would open the gate for them on payment of $20 or that they could open the gate themselves and pass through. But when Hardharden tried it, he was shot and killed by an unseen gunman before the horrified eyes of his wife, Esther. Hearing the story, Sisko and Pancho investigated. Burger allowed them to open the gate. He even rode with them into the high walled canyon. And then our friends were roped and struck down from above. Now Cisco and Pancho are Lying in a little pocket of rock between ledges, Pancho. Been hit by old freight trains, Cisco? Oh, I feel the same way, Chico. It's an effort even to open my eyes. I've never been in a place like this before, Pancho. Not beneath us in a big hollow rock. No see? And no possible way to get out. Unless we could jump and catch those ledges above and haul ourselves over to the edge. Edge? Too long a jump up, see? But there is no other way what this is to the ledge. That opening is not more than half an inch, amigo. Marks the break in the two ledges. And Poncho, through that opening we can see right down to the gate in the road beyond. That bugger. Only Cisco, he looked down over the edge. Well, Cisco, are you happy? You'd better make the most of your triumph while you have the chance, hombre. Oh, I'm going to have no fear of that. You don't remember me, do you, Cisco? Cisco remembers you. From now on. Look closer, Cisco. You remember Walter Baron? Walter Baron, the forger? That's right. You sent me to prison. But now you're in prison down in that pocket of rock. Hey, Mr. Burger, somebody's coming down on the road. Ah, good. You can watch this, Cisco. Through the opening between the ledges, I'll be down by the gate. You can watch, and yet you'll be helpless to do anything about it. And then afterwards, I'll come back here and watch you die, Cisco. Watch you die. I wonder where the Cisco Kid can be, Spot. You're wondering too, huh? Maybe we'll pick Cisco up ahead on the road. Be good to see him again and talk over old times with him. Prospectin up on White River? Yep. Just as sure as My name's Moose McCallum. It'll be good. Get up, Spot. We gotta be getting along. Faster. The traveler gets closer to the gate, Cisco. Say, let me have another look. Take another look. Take another look. Madre mia. Poncho. Quack, quack, quack, quack. That traveler is Senor Moose McCallum. Senor Moose McCallum. See? We must get out of this trap somehow. Nobody up there in the ledge where the rifle. Cisco, even if we do get out of here. Mind the problems, Chico. We have no time for them. We cannot stay here and watch our good friend shot down by that snake. But she's going. Well, Senyamous might not open the gate, and Senor moose might pay $20. And then they not shoot him. You are wrong, Pancho. Wrong. In the first place, Senor Moose will not pay the $20. No. I know him well enough to know that in the second place, even if he did, that bandido baron would still order him shot down. Just as part of his revenge against me. Bancho, I have an idea. What? The idea. What the idea. It is seven or eight feet across the bottom of this pit. If you crouch down, perhaps I can get enough of a run to leap from your back and catch the edge of the ledge above with my hands. But then the rifleman of the Cisco, he should you. That is the chance I must take, amigo. You will not be expecting me to try to escape out of this pit. You'll be watching Senator McCallum approach the gate. And if I can catch him by the anchor enough to upset him. Might work, Cisco. Might not work. It must work, or else he will shoot us down without waiting for Ben Androedder. Crouch down, Pancho. I must try this at once. I stopped to think it over. I may not try it. All right, then. Here I come. There, Bantino. I have hold of you. Now we will see. Come on. Break. Now I can draw myself up on this ledge. You ain't getting away with this, Cisco. So help. So far I have, hombre. Now I will try to put on the finishing touches. Like this. And this. And this. For the time being, Pancho here. I will let down his rifle. Take hold of it, and I will pull you up. Up you come, amigo. See? I will hang on, Pancho. But, Santos, you must wait. Ton. Pancho way more after Poncho eats his. Go. You come. What do we do now, huh? Take the Rombre's guns, Pancho. Then tie his hands and feet securely. He's no ropes. He's good. Here's my banana, amigo. Use yours also. They will hold him until we can get him back up here. When you have done that, join me at the gate. I must get down there now. There is not a moment to lose. What in blaze is this? Oh, Spot. Whoa. Hey, what's this gate mean, mister? It means you pay $20 to go through it. Oh, is that so? Good. By thunder. I don't. Things has come to a purty pass in this country. When a man can block off a public road. Very well, then. Open the gates yourself. That's just what I'm going to do, mister. And if you try any monkey business, you'll find Moose McCallum can fight like a loco wildcat. See? There. Now I'm a going through. Well, what you raising that arm for? You'll find out. Just remember what I Said why doesn't Snake? All right, Snade. Snade. Come on Spot. Then I'll get you myself. This time I'm armed. Just a minute here. You wouldn't gun down an unarmed man, would you? Here, Cisco, let me go. He would shoot you in a moment. Say, your Moose, you would. If he had the chance. Which he is not going to get. World by sassafras Shisco. Hey, Sarah Boos, I'll be with you in a moment. Take your time, Cisco. I sure am enjoying them. I will end it right now. Mighty nice, Cisco. Mighty nice. I sure admire the way you punch. Buenos Cisco. What I say amus. Well, Poncho, easy is Pancho got he dressed ahead of the sheriff on the Senora. All right, Moose? Yep, sure am. You arriving a good time, sheriff. This here woman kept after me every second. And I finally agreed to take this murder case first. Murder? Yep. That two legged coyote there had Hod shot down in cold blood for opening that gate. No. You will find the rifleman up there in the lead, Senor Sheriff. Also you had better investigate this hombres house and question the other men who work for him. Yep, the rifleman not in good temper. Say, you're a sheriff he tied up like a turkey. No. Then the scoundrel meant to shoot me down too. Cisco, by thunder, you saved my life. Let us say you saved your own life, Senor Moose, by not being with your sister and her husband. And now Senor Sheriff, I trust you will overlook my meddling in your affairs. As you say. Oh, he will, Cisco. Don't worry. Unless he wants me to start talking at him again. Nope, nope, I don't. It'll be all right this time, Cisco. Just don't let it happen again. It not happen again to those bandidos that you, Sheriff. When Cisco finished with the bandido. The bandidos finish. No. Are you sure them killers are in jail, Cisco? Sie, senor. They are in jail for keeps. That Burger hombre alias Baron was wanted to finish out a jail sentence anyway. And now with his murder charge against him, he will be in jail for the rest of his life. Snade hombre. And the jail for keeps too, see? So you have nothing more to fear from them, Senora. Now tell me, how are you going to like this your new home? Well, I'll get used to it. Cisco ain't what it would have been if hard was. But. But your brother, Senor Moose is with you? Yeah, but Moose won't be around long. He's got the wanderlust he won't ever settle down. Then Pancho and I will make it a point to ride this way once in a while to see how you are getting along. Well, I'm going to count on that, Cisco. And every time you come here, I'll fix a meal for you like the one I'm a fixin now, Pancho think he smell good food, did you, Poncho? Be polite now, Poncho. Polite, Cisco. Yeah, you let him alone, Cisco. Poncho, I'm cooking four chickens. And just for you. Four chickens just for Pancho. He will eat them all, senora. Four chickens and two gooseberry pies, Poncho. Jeremy, what do you think of that? We'll ride his way soon again, Cisco. Pancho like this country, senor. Oh, how Pancho like this country, Cisco. Sie, Pancho. Pancho like good food, Cisco. Well, there's no doubt about that, Chico. You too like good food and a lot of it. Sometime Pancho think he marry a good cook. That is a good idea, amigo. If you marry Pancho Almost asked a sangrido to marry him once. Who was the senorita Pancho? Big Maria. Oh, see Big Maria. Of course. I should have known. Well, tell me about it. Well, Pangio and Big Maria walk by the river one day. You and Big Maria walk by the river? Si, si. And Pancho. Pancho throw rocks into the water. What did you say to Big Maria? Pancho say, pancho like to ask you to marry Pancho. Big Maria. But. But what? But Pancho say, Pancho only a little pebble in your life. You told Big Maria you were only a little pebble in her life. See? And what did Big Maria say to that, amigo? Big Maria say, not be a little pebble, Poncho be a little bolder. Oh, Pancho. Oh, is he? And so ends another exciting adventure with O. Henry's famous Robin Hood of the west, the Cisco Kid. Be sure to listen again for another thrilling adventure of the Cisco Kid. Cisco Kid was played by Jack Mather, Poncho By Harry Laugh SA Foreign this has been a presentation of OTRWesterns.com and we hope you enjoyed. 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