Friday, November 2, 2018

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)

This strange, low budget western/horror hybrid was the final film helmed by the prolific William Beaudine, a man who has 372 listed directing credits on his IMDb page, some dating back to the silent era. Double billed with the similarly themed Billy the Kid Versus Dracula, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter was filmed fast and cheap at the Corrigan Ranch, a well known shooting location for B- westerns. The plot is about what you'd expect only it isn't actually Frankenstein's daughter that Jesse James meets, rather it is his granddaughter, carrying on the family tradition of experiments in a Spanish mission style villa. This film is bad, while only 83 minutes long it might have been near unwatchable were it not for the entertaining audio commentary from TV's Joe Bob Briggs. Estelita Rodriquez, who plays the love interest for John Lupton's Jessie James, died from the flu the same year this movie was released, she was only 37. ** (rating pumped up some do to the commentary).

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