Gypsy Wildcat is a 1944 Technicolor adventure film directed by Roy William Neil starring Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Peter Coe.

[3] A king's messenger (Jon Hall) protects a Gypsy dancer (Maria Montez) from a wicked baron who knows her secret.

After the success of Arabian Nights Universal requested a series of films starring Montez, Hall and Sabu.

They showed him a Maria Montez film "so I would know what kind of a creature I was writing for", he said years later.

"[9] Cain said he took and script "worked on it day and night, got order into the story and simplified it.

When he left the studio, he walked past the office of producer George Waggner to say thanks and saw him rewriting the script.

Waggner said he was "delighted with what" Cain had done but said Montez "couldn't play your dialogue.

However he was loaned at the last minute to MGM to play a role in Dragon Seed and was replaced by Peter Coe.