La Justicia del Coyote

El Coyote comes to the aid of landowners fending off the American Troops, engaged in outright war for territorial conquest in the area of what is now Southern California. His lady Leonor is privy to the truth, but few even suspect that overgrown rich kid César de Echagüe could be the fearless (borderline psycho as much as the bad guys, truthfully) masked unknown, known only as...El Coyote! 　　Teaming again, Romero Marchent directs, Franco writes and assists the director (and supplies lyrics again), and Salazar stars - again without mustache, this time clearly visible in the posters where the original film's poster clearly showed a mustache that wasn't on El Coyote's face in the film - quickly completing the now-unjustly-overlooked diptych. 　　Compact and crisply (often gorgeously) shot in high-contrast close-ups - as the original - the sequel is less expansive, coming off more like a serial. (You may think in passing Clark Kent/Superman, Clark/Lois Lane...and often Zorro.) Leonor's reveal, approaching in long shot across a field, then in medium-shot silhouette, is a brilliant lead-up. It all blows by in its mere 65 minutes, entertaining but finally lacking the ferocious delirium of the original. It's still far too good an early EuroWestern to be so little known. 　　As with El Coyote, this one gets high marks on the barroom shootout meter. And, wonderfully, El Coyote's calling card is witty notes on swinging saloon doors signed with a cartoon coyote head. 　　The imdb, as with the original El Coyote, lists the year of the film as one later than the title card on the print indicates. J.L. Romero Marchent is credited solely at the imdb for this film, but the original credits Fernando Soler as an uncredited director at imdb. smZ'er vicjunco graciously shared, in the comments to my post of El Coyote here, this: 　　Mexican posters for the sequel (LA JUSTICIA DEL COYOTE) also credit Romero Marchant and Fernando Soler as co-directors. Soler spent part of 1954 in Spain, where he directed and starred in EDUCANDO A PAPA. His directorial credits on the Coyote films may have been occasioned by some sort of legal requirement having to do with co-productions between Mexico and Spain.