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The Leo Carrillo Ranch Part 4
The 2008 Friday Night Film Festival Continued!
Last night Tina and I once again went to the Leo Carrillo Ranch in Carlsbad, California to take in one of the special Friday Night Film Festival shows starring Leo Carrillo! The Film Festival ends September 12th, 2008. For those that don't know who Leo Carrillo was, please see our previous blog posts by clicking Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.Last night's festivities started with wine and a picnic dinner, (bring your own or buy a Carrillo Combo consisting of hot dog, chips and soda), then a showing of a Cisco Kid TV Show episode from the early 1950's, and then the Main Feature! The Cicso Kid episode last night was a more serious one, with two female ranchers who also had a lunch room in town. A couple of 'con men' rode into town, and came up with the idea of a staging a rodeo and making off with the prize money. Well, the Cisco Kid had other ideas on how to distribute the prize money! It was a pretty good episode and of course shown in color as all of the Cisco Kid TV Shows were filmed in during the b&w days of early TV! The 'Main Feature' for this Friday Night was the 1941 Film 'HoRRoR Island' where Leo was acting with Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, and Fuzzy Knight. Others in the cast were: Foy Van Dolsen, Iris Adrian, Emmett Vogan, John Eldredge and Hobart Cavanaugh. The title of the film was a misnomer, as it wasn't a 'HoRRoR Film', but instead a play on the 'Ten Little Indians' where one after another the adventurers to the island were bumped off! This was another short 'B' film, (60 minutes long), and this time Leo played a one-legged sailor with a treasure map to Morgan the Pirate's buried treasure... Or at least half of the map, as 'The Phantom' took the other half of the map early in the movie and thus it was more of a semi-thriller with comedic scenes instead of a 'HoRRoR' film! Dick Foran, the lead actor, was a good 'B' Film actor who also was in several TV Shows later including Laramie, Bonanza, Rawhide, Death Valley Days, and more. Tina thought it was a good play on 'The Ten Little Indians' angle, and the film reminded her of her Aunt Anne's talking about going to see 'B' Films during the time period of this film with her Aunt. I enjoyed seeing the film, with Leo playing a comedic swashbuckler. The outdoor showing was more heavily attended last night, with approximately half of the audience being 'newbies' to the Film Festival. There are only two films left for the 2008 Summer Friday Night Film Festival. I am looking forward to the 'A' Film running 127 minutes, The 'Lillian Russell' film from 1940, where Leo Carrillo also had a big role in it! BTW, We don't show films here, although we do have an occasional DVD for sale here, but we do have an ongoing Comic Con and Pop Culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale! Thanks for reading this post today and please join us again! Michael |  The Carlsbad Recreation Department, that presents the Friday Night Film Festival, uses 'The Cabana' for selling movie concessions today. The 'reflecting pool' used to be a true swimming pool when Leo and his wife Deedie owned the ranch.  Above is a photo showing the actual pool with Leo and Deedie relaxing by it! They entertained many Hollywood Stars of their time by the pool. The ranch was so large, and at the time so far away from Hollywood in the back country of Carlsbad, that the film stars would come down with their 'Airstreams' and camp in an area near the Cabana for several days at a time!  I have been asked whether or not this was a true working ranch. The answer is yes, as Leo had at one time 600 head of cattle and several vaqueros that lived on the ranch! Above is a photo of Leo at the Ranch.  The crowd last night placed their low back chairs on the grass by the pool, and then proceeded to wine and dine until the Cisco Kid episode and film came on. The current status of the Film Festival is to have the films shown outside, but there is a fund raiser going on to have the films shown in what was the old barn, (shown above), after it is restored. It won't be the same, as being out under the stars at night is part of the charm of the Film Festival, but then again, maybe there won't be so many darn mosquitoes!
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