"You live to fight? Come. Your life has begun."
My family jumped at the chance to see the obscure film "Don Ricardo Returns" for two reasons: We love writer Johnston McCulley (who also penned the "Zorro" stories) and we love any movie with a swashbuckling girl. "Don Ricardo Returns" has poor acting, poor production values and sloppy filming, but it's also kinda fun and worth watching once for fans of the genre (the genre is Old-California-Romantic-Adventures-of-Long-Lost-Shanghaied-Heirs-to-the-Rancho-and-Savior-of-the-Peons/Peasants).
Young and drippy Don Ricardo has an evil cousin who pays a ne'er do well to kidnap and kill him, then report his death as a sea drowning (movie buffs will recognize this as a plot thread from Disney's 1961 Epic Loopfest, "Babes in Toyland". We had a hard time not singing "Slowly, slowly he sank into the sea..." as the salty sea captain reported Don Ricardo's death). Ricardo (played by Fred Coby, the VERY poor man's Tyrone Power) has a babe-alicious betrothed, Dorthea, who doesn't believe...
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