Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 03/20/2001
Dubbed: English
Sound: 1
Run Time: 87 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Image Entertainment
The Gay Desperado is a 1936
musical lampooning the then-popular
gangster pictures.
Leo Carrillo plays a genial Mexican bandit,
Pablo Braganza, who gets nowhere until he and his amigos begin studying
gangster techniques -- courtesy of Hollywood movies. Selecting kidnapping as his crime of choice,
Pablo snatches
opera star
Chivo (
Nino Martini) simply because he likes his singing. But the bold bandito gets in over his head when he abducts a troublesome heiress,
Jane (
Ida Lupino), and her nerdy fiancé,
Bill (
James Blakely).
Chivo hopes to extract a huge ransom for
Jane's return, but the girl is more trouble than she's worth. All ends happily when
Pablo engineers a romance between
Jane and
Chivo.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide