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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
Rating:
Starring: Cal Bolder, Joe Bob Briggs, John Carradine, Jim Davis, Steven Geray, Narda Onyx
Director: William Beaudine
Category: Horror, Horror
Studio: Elite Entertainment
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Length:
88 mins

 
 

 

Joe Bob Briggs Presents Vol. 1

I'm plumb proud to be presenting the final film of William Beaudine, better known as "One-Shot Beaudine", because he never shot a second take. He was the fastest, most prolific director in the world, and this movie is his testament: the great, the under-appreciated, the colossally inventive Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter. The finest horror western ever made-which I realize is like saying the best Mexican wine, but still.

At any rate, this movie was always shown on a double bill with One-Shot Beaudine's next-to-last movie, Billy the Kid Versus Dracula, starring John Carradine in what Carradine always said was the worst movie he ever made (and do you realize just HOW many movies John Carradine made?)

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter has an all-star cast, beginning with Estrelita, the Cuban spitfire herself, who was sort of the Charo of her day, seen here in a rare non-singing, non-dancing role. Also Narda Onyx, in her last screen appearance, as the Teutonic B*tch with a Beaker in the title role (actually she's Frankenstein's granddaughter, not daughter. Whoops!) Then there's Steven Geray, in HIS final role, as the dimwit brother who looks like he should be running a bratwurst deli in Vienna. And who could forget muscleman Cal Bolder as the big dumb ox she needs for her experiments-and yes it was HIS last role as well (are we seeing a pattern here?)

Fortunately, this resume-killer of a movie didn't affect the future work of the great Rayford Barnes, as the hothead turncoat outlaw, and Jim Davis, who would become internationally famous as Jock Ewing in Dallas. William Beaudine, 73 years old when he made this movie, completed more than 500 films in his career, and I can definitely say that this is one of them.
-Joe Bob Briggs