The Gay Desperado
The Gay Desperado | |
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Directed by | Rouben Mamoulian |
Written by | Wallace Smith (screenplay) Leo Birinsky (story) |
Produced by | Mary Pickford Jesse L. Lasky |
Starring | Ida Lupino Leo Carrillo Nino Martini |
Cinematography | Lucien Andriot |
Distributed by | United Artists Milestone Pictures (2006 DVD release) |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Gay Desperado is a 1936 comedy film starring Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, and Nino Martini and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, produced by Mary Pickford, and originally released by United Artists. The film was restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Mary Pickford Foundation, and released on DVD in 2006 by Milestone Pictures after being out of distribution for many years.
Portions of the film were shot in Tucson, Arizona and show the old adobe quarter of the City and .
Plot[]
Chivo (Nino Martini), a singer who works in a movie theater providing live entertainment, is apprehended by a music-loving Mexican bandit Pablo Braganza (Leo Carrillo) who wants to make Chivo part of his band. Braganza, who admires American gangsters, also kidnaps Jane and her rich boyfriend Bill to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
Cast[]
- Ida Lupino as Jane
- Leo Carrillo as Pablo Braganza
- Nino Martini as Chivo
- Harold Huber as Juan Campo
- James Blakeley as Bill Shay
- Stanley Fields as Butch
- Mischa Auer as Diego
Reception[]
Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a good review, describing it as "one of the best light comedies of the year". Greene asserts that "Mr. Mamoulian's camera is very persuasive" and together with the film's "careful compositions" and the overall intent of the film he summarizes the film as having "a framework of fine and mannered prose".[1]
References[]
- ^ Greene, Graham (November 13, 1936). "Fredlös/The Gay Desperado". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 116-119. ISBN 0192812866.)
External links[]
- 1936 films
- English-language films
- United Artists films
- American films
- 1930s parody films
- 1930s crime comedy films
- American crime comedy films
- American parody films
- Films directed by Rouben Mamoulian
- Films shot in Arizona
- Films shot in Tucson, Arizona
- American black-and-white films
- 1936 comedy films
- 1930s comedy film stubs