The Kissing Bandit (film)

The Kissing Bandit
Directed by	Laslo Benedek
Produced by	Joe Pasternak
Written by	Isobel Lennart
Starring	Frank Sinatra Kathryn Grayson
Cinematography	Robert Surtees
Edited by	Adrienne Fazan
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	January 1949 (1949-01)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3,291,000^[1]
Box office	$1,381,000^[1]

The Kissing Bandit is a 1948 film starring Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson. The supporting cast includes Ricardo Montalban, Ann Miller, and Cyd Charisse. The movie was directed by Laslo Benedek.

Plot

The film is set in the early nineteenth century. Ricardo (Frank Sinatra) is the son of a robber known as the Kissing Bandit. He however is a shy, Boston-bred young man who does not know how to sit on a horse. He falls for the daughter of the Spanish Governor of California.

Cast

Frank Sinatra ... Ricardo
Kathryn Grayson ... Teresa
J. Carrol Naish ... Chico
Mildred Natwick ... Isabella
Mikhail Rasumny ... Don Jose
Billy Gilbert ... General Felipe Toro
Sono Osato ... Bianca
Clinton Sundberg ... Colonel Gomez
Carleton G. Young ... Count Ricardo Belmonte
Ricardo Montalban ... Fiesta Specialty Dancer
Ann Miller ... Fiesta Specialty Dancer
Cyd Charisse ... Fiesta Specialty Dancer
Edna Skinner ... Juanita
Vicente Gómez ... Mexican Guitarist

Reception

The film was a financial disaster, earning $969,000 in the US and Canada and $412,000 overseas, resulting in a loss to MGM of $2,643,000. This made it one of the least successful musicals in MGM history.^[1]^[2]

It was reviewed - unfavourably - in Picturegoer : "the progress of [the] romance is uninspired and very dull. The one worthwhile performance comes from J. Carrol Naish as The Kissing Bandit's henchman."^[3]

References

1 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
↑ Variety says it earned $1.8 million see "Top Grossers of 1948", Variety 5 January 1949 p 46
↑ Picturegoer, 4 June 1949, p.16

External links

The Kissing Bandit at the Internet Movie Database
The Kissing Bandit at the TCM Movie Database

Films directed by László Benedek

Song of Russia The Kissing Bandit Port of New York Death of a Salesman The Wild One Bengal Brigade Children, Mother, and the General Affair in Havana Recours en grâce Moment of Danger Namu, the Killer Whale Daring Game The Night Visitor Assault on Agathon

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