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

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Cast:
Nino Martini - Chivo
Ida Lupino - Jane
Leo Carrillo - Pablo Braganza
Harold Huber - Campo
James "Doc" Blakely - Bill
Stanley Fields - Butch
Mischa Auer - Diego
Adrian Rosley - Radio Station Manager
Paul Hurst - American Detective
Allan Garcia - Police Captain
Frank Puglia - Lopez
Michael Visaroff - Theatre Manager
Chris-Pin Martin - Pancho
Harry Semels - Manuel
George Ducount - Salvador
Alfonso Pedroza - Coloso

Production:
Rouben Mamoulian - Director
Mary Pickford Jesse Lasky - Producer
Alfred Newman - Composer
Margaret C. Clancey - Editor
Wallace Smith - Screen Writer
Richard Day - Art Director
Lucien Andriot - Cinematographer
Alfred Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision
Leo Birinski - Screen Story

The Ransom of Red Chief
    1996
Ruthless People
    Danny DeVito / R / 1986

1936 New York Film Critics Circle

1986 Telluride Film Festival