''The Firebrand'' (also known as Caballero) is a 1962 American

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film directed and produced by

Maury Dexter Maury Dexter (born Morris Gene Poindexter; June 12, 1927 – May 28, 2017) was an American producer and director of film and TV. He worked several times for Robert Lippert and American International Pictures. Life and career Dexter was born in P ...

and starring

Kent Taylor Kent Taylor (born Louis William Weiss; May 11, 1907 – April 11, 1987) was an American actor of film and television. Taylor appeared in more than 110 films, the bulk of them B-movies in the 1930s and 1940s, although he also had roles in more p ...

Valentin de Vargas Valentin de Vargas (born Albert Charles Schubert; April 27, 1935 – June 10, 2013) was an actor known for appearing in films in the 1950s and 1960s. Two of his prominent roles were as a gangster threatening Janet Leigh in Orson Welles' ''Touch o ...

and

Lisa Montell Lisa Janti (born July 5, 1933), known as Lisa Montell when performing as a Hollywood actress of the 1950–60s, later shifted her career to one of advocacy and service to various disadvantaged groups and to her adopted religion, the Baháʼí Fa ...

Plot

A Mexican outlaw wages a war against the corrupt

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during the

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Cast

as Maj. Tim Bancroft *

Joaquin Murieta Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes spelled Murieta or Murietta) (1829 – July 25, 1853), also called the Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a Mexican-American figure of disputed historicity. The novel '' The Life and A ...

as Clarita Vasconcelos * Joe Raciti as Jack Garcia *

Chubby Johnson Charles Randolph "Chubby" Johnson (August 13, 1903 – October 31, 1974) was an American film and television supporting character actor with a genial demeanor and warm, country-accented voice. Early years Johnson was the son of entertaine ...

as Tampico * Barbara Mansell as Cassie * Allen Jaffe as Torres *

Troy Melton Troy Wilford Melton (March 2, 1921 – November 15, 1995) was an American stuntman and actor. Early life Born in Jackson, Tennessee, Melton migrated with his family to Los Angeles during the Great Depression. After three years of service in t ...

as Walker *

Fred Krone Fred Krone (June 19, 1930 – January 12, 2010), also known as Krunch, was an American actor and stuntman who worked predominantly in Westerns. Career Krone was born in Kentucky. He began working in the 1950s performing stunts and as an acto ...

as Dickens *

Sid Haig Sidney Eddie Mosesian (July 14, 1939 – September 21, 2019), known professionally as Sid Haig, was an American actor, film producer, and musician. He was known for his roles in several of Jack Hill's blaxploitation films from the 1970s, as well ...

as Diego *

Felix Locher Jon Hall (born Charles Felix Locher, February 23, 1915 – December 13, 1979) was an American film actor known for playing a variety of adventurous roles, as in 1937's ''The Hurricane (1937 film), The Hurricane'', and later when contracted ...

as Ramirez * Jerry Summers as Rafael Vasconcelos * Tom Daly as California Ranger * I. Stanford Jolley as California Ranger * Pat Lawless as California Ranger

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