Sunday, July 10, 2011

Beauty and the Bandit (1946)


Monogram Pictures
Directed by William Nigh
My rating: BOMB
IMDb
(DVD, VCI Entertainment)

Another annoyingly-dubbed Gilbert Roland Cisco Kid film. The best I've been able to figure out, these films were originally changed to remove any reference to "Cisco Kid", to something like "Chico Kid". However, I think VCI has taken the opportunity to re-dub "Cisco Kid" into this DVD release. In other words they've redubbed the dubbed version back to the original version. The tell-tell scene is one with print and audio damage late in the film, VCI took the opportunity to fix the audio with the same voice actors, even though there is no reference to "Cisco". The original prints obviously would not have done this. Anyway, it's all terribly distracting. Cisco/Chico is his usual suave character, most of the running time spent flirting with pretty Ramsay Ames. There is a plot somewhere about a corrupt doctor poisoning the local animals.

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