After gangster Ace (Ace Cain) learns that Pop Wiley (William Farnum)
has discovered the fabled Lost Dutchman mine, he shoots him dead, wanting
the mine for himself ... but after he has searched Pop's whole place &
failed to come up with any map to the mine, he realizes it would have been
wiser to ask the old man for the map first ... the map to the mine is
actually painted onto the inside of the shirt of Pop's young granddaughter
Sally (Marjorie Medford), whom Pop has sent away to the neighbouring
ranch, but who has run into the Irish gringo (Pat Carlyle) & his
sidekicks Pancho (Don Orlando) & Buffalo (Milburn Morante), who take
the girl to the next town, & to the local saloon. There, saloon
singer Carlotta (Elena Durán) is madly in love with the gringo ... but
the gringo has lost his heart to ranch owner Anita (Karlyn May), who in
turn is in love with her foreman Jimmy (Rudolf Cornell), but is courted by
Malone (Bryant Washburn), owner of the saloon Carlotta works at &
incidently also in secret goss of a gang that Ace is part of & that
desperately tries to find the Lost Dutchman Mine. Incidently, Carlotta
learns that Malone is looking for the mine, & that the Gringo knows
the mine's whereabout. Then she learns that the Gringo plans a wedding,
& that Anita is going to be part of it ... what she doesn't hear
though is that the Gringo plans to marry Anita to Jimmy, & thus thinks
that the Gringo will be the groom. So she sells the Gringo to Malone, who
plans to strike with his gang during the wedding. Only then does she learn
the truth about the wedding & in tears confesses everything to the
Gringo ... who goes ahead with the wedding nevertheless, & during it,
rather casually, arrests Malone & his whole gang. Often
called the Plan 9 ...
of B-Westerns, which is saying a bit much, as Irish Gringo does not
reach that movie's otherworldliness ... but it has its moments: some
almost outrageous overacting, inane dialogue, silly & unbelievable
plottwists, visible cheapness, inapproppriate incidental music, & a
badly faked Mexican accent by Pat Carlyle (though in all fairness, Walter
Miller's fake accent in Lone
Defender is a lot funnier). You might love or love to hate this
film.
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