Rating: NR
Genre:
Musical
Release Date: 05/13/2008
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD
Run Time: 100 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
In this period
musical,
Ricardo (
Frank Sinatra) is the son of a Mexican innkeeper who has come to California to take over a hotel owned by his family after the death of his father.
Ricardo makes the startling discovery that his father was best known as a "kissing bandit," a dashing thief who aptitude for crime was matched by his gift for romancing the ladies. When tax collectors from Spain begin to overrun his homeland,
Ricardo decides to follow in his father's footsteps, liberating the taxmen's ill-gotten gains and winning the heart of
Teresa (
Kathryn Grayson), the governor's daughter. Also starring
J. Carrol Naish,
Billy Gilbert and
Mildred Natwick,
The Kissing Bandit also features the fancy footwork of
Ann Miller,
Ricardo Montalban, and
Cyd Charisse, who appear as specialty dancers in the production numbers.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide