Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

So much dialog in this film. So, so much.The plot (such as it is) has the daughter of Victor Frankenstein and her "brother" moving to American Southwest to continue the experiments. There they run across Jesse James and Jesse's friend who was shot during a subplot. She experiments on the burly, dumb friend. Things go to pot.Film has flaky science, random things like Jacob's Ladders running for no reason, a random Native American attack for no reason, bad accents...its a definite case of beer making fun of it film.Drunken Zombie has a commentary for this film. It's in the public domain.

And Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter is quite awful, though not quite so much as the title suggests.Many younger viewers have tried to figured out why anyone would want to produce a picture so bad. Well, back in the days before women were easy, a wicked, licentious teenage guy would take his girl friend to see Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter at a drive-in theater and spend the entire 88-minute running time attempting without success to get the virtuous lass's girdle off. Nobody paid much attention to the movie, because he was too busy exercising his crude version of charm, and she was too busy fending it off. In case suspicious parents asked what the movie was about, the naughty kids wouldn't have to get any farther than the title to make mommy and daddy decide they didn't really want to know. Simple, huh?Why any allegedly mature adult, such as yours truly, would by a DVD copy of such a movie at this late date beggars comprehension. Not a good Western, not a good horror movie. One of this dud's few saving graces was the performance of Narda Onyx as Maria Frankenstein, said descendant of the old monster-maker. The sexy, middle aged actress of Estonian origin plays the villainous countess with grand, over-ripe exuberance, sort of like a female version of Vincent Price. She almost makes watching this turkey worthwhile. But not quite.This picture is only for the following types: 1) fans of John Lupton, of which, astonishingly, there seem to be a few. 2) those with more money than common sense, with whom yours truly apparently may be grouped. 3) rock-hard desperate insomniacs.Others should avoid Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter as they would getting behind an old dame with a fist-full of coupons in a check-out line.

Just watched this what I'm sure was a "Drive-In"-type B/Z-grade movie directed by the one and only William "One-Shot" Beaudine. Technically, the woman of the title is the late doctor's granddaughter but never mind. Anyway, in this hybrid western/horror movie, Jesse James is once again on the run from the marshal and stumbles on a Mexican gypsy family whose grown daughter decides to ally herself with Jesse. Jesse himself has a friend who got wounded in the gun battle with the marshal so he comes to an abandoned mission where a couple of doctors have the cure. Guess who one of them is? Anyway, while what I just described was indeed ridiculous, the way it was presented was pretty entertaining especially whenever certain lines or deliveries of them were enacted as either too much on emphasis or just too straight. Anyway, one of the players, Jim Davis, acquits himself quite nicely as the marshal with that familiar authoritative voice that served him well previously in those Republic oaters and later on as Jock Ewing on the original "Dallas". So he definitely gets a pass here even though he was obviously slumming. So, yeah, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter is worth a look if you're looking for a real howler. P.S. I previously saw Davis as Frank James in Bob Hope's comedy Alias Jesse James. Obviously, that would be the only connection these different movies would have in common with each other.

Very few people are aware this script was written by Ernest Hemingway. The music was by Ernest Tubb and the gowns were designed by Ernest Borgnine. This is a fine musicale adapted as a Western. Watch for a young Johnny Depp riding in the stagecoach. The fiery special effects seen in the laboratory are awesome. When this was shown at drive ins viewers tooted their horns in loving approval. This fine film is one of the top 25 movies chosen by Congress to be shown at Area 51 for our visitors from beyond. Originally this vehicle was planned for Joel McCrea to play the part of Frankenstein's daughter but he began reading the script and by the time he got to page 2 he became too ill to act and the role was given to... what's her name. Her performance received the Golden Noose from the Screen Actors Posse. We are all aware from having learned in school that Jesse James did indeed meet a woman who had a lab where she used lightning to zap her monster boys to life in the small town that had no single men. This movie does stray slightly from the beauty of that true story by adding orchestrated music. The mood music varies from Polka to Hip Hop. All in all not a bad yarn and fine fonts used for the titles.