Say, how does this happen? Three outlaws chase a man on horseback who gets shot from behind, but his wound is in his front left shoulder. I've seen this kind of situation in B Westerns countless times and I have to wonder whether a bullet can go completely through a person's upper body traveling through shoulder blade, rib cage and any number of bones. It just leaves me completely mystified.
Well here's another quick sagebrush yarn featuring Tim Holt and sidekick Richard Martin in which we learn his entire name - Chito Jose Gonzalez Bustamonte Rafferty. Explaining to a pretty senorita about his Irish connection, Chito states his father was a 'Mickey', so I guess we'll have to accept that. You know, I really hadn't noticed before, but the name of Tim Holt's character will change in these stories, but Chito's always remains the same. Don't mess with a good thing.
The story is fairly typical featuring an outlaw in a land grab scheme, but this time with the added feature of a forged Spanish land grant. A trio of baddies rough up Ross Daggert (Holt) right after he got the grant in a wallet from another outlaw who wasn't on screen long enough to figure in the outcome. One of the three assumes the murdered man's identity to stake his claim of ownership to a huge tract of land in the San Carlos Valley of Arizona, thereby putting all the ranchers in the area in jeopardy of losing their land and water rights.
Chito plays a larger role in this tale compared to other films I've seen. He gets in his share of fisticuffs against the bad guys and pulls a smooth move by exposing one of the suspicious ranch owners who he thinks is part of the outlaw bunch. After all the bad guys are rounded up and everything's back to normal, he proceeds to produce four wedding rings so that he and Ross can ride off into the sunset with their respective gals.
I don't know all that much about the Spanish land grant business, although another reviewer here explains a bit about it. However at least one popular TV Western used the idea in one of their episodes. Season One of 'Bonanza' had a story titled 'The Spanish Grant' featuring Patricia Medina and her name in the story was Isabella Maria Ynez Y Castra De La Cuesta. I can't imagine what her married name would be if she hooked up with Chito.
Well here's another quick sagebrush yarn featuring Tim Holt and sidekick Richard Martin in which we learn his entire name - Chito Jose Gonzalez Bustamonte Rafferty. Explaining to a pretty senorita about his Irish connection, Chito states his father was a 'Mickey', so I guess we'll have to accept that. You know, I really hadn't noticed before, but the name of Tim Holt's character will change in these stories, but Chito's always remains the same. Don't mess with a good thing.
The story is fairly typical featuring an outlaw in a land grab scheme, but this time with the added feature of a forged Spanish land grant. A trio of baddies rough up Ross Daggert (Holt) right after he got the grant in a wallet from another outlaw who wasn't on screen long enough to figure in the outcome. One of the three assumes the murdered man's identity to stake his claim of ownership to a huge tract of land in the San Carlos Valley of Arizona, thereby putting all the ranchers in the area in jeopardy of losing their land and water rights.
Chito plays a larger role in this tale compared to other films I've seen. He gets in his share of fisticuffs against the bad guys and pulls a smooth move by exposing one of the suspicious ranch owners who he thinks is part of the outlaw bunch. After all the bad guys are rounded up and everything's back to normal, he proceeds to produce four wedding rings so that he and Ross can ride off into the sunset with their respective gals.
I don't know all that much about the Spanish land grant business, although another reviewer here explains a bit about it. However at least one popular TV Western used the idea in one of their episodes. Season One of 'Bonanza' had a story titled 'The Spanish Grant' featuring Patricia Medina and her name in the story was Isabella Maria Ynez Y Castra De La Cuesta. I can't imagine what her married name would be if she hooked up with Chito.