Review(s): DVD Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
"Blazing Saddles" Meets "Young Frankenstein"
Maria Frankenstein and her brother Rudolph have fled from Vienna, and have relocated to an abandoned mission in Arizona. Not only did they move there for privacy, the desert offers lots of electrical storms necessary for her experiments. Maria is trying to create the perfect zombie slave by replacing a man's brain with an artificial brain, but her experiments have all been failures. Maybe that's because her brother is opposed to the idea, and keeps injecting her patients with poison. I guess it's poison, since the beaker has a skull and crossbones on it, and underneath that it says POISON.
Jesse James and his partner Hank Tracy join another outlaw gang to rob a stagecoach. Hank, a dimwitted, muscular giant, gets shot in the process. Jesse and Hank manage to escape and, along their travels, meet up with a peasant girl named Juanita. With her help, they make it to Doctor Frankenstein's place. Drooling over the hulk Hank, the good Doctor operates on him to remove the bullet, and later operates on him to remove his brain! She successfully transplants the artificial brain, although she does a poor job of stitching back the top of his head, and renames her creation Igor! The first thing Maria does is to order Igor to kill her brother before Rudolph can inject him with poison.
When Juanita and Jesse arrive on the scene, Maria orders Igor to kill Juanita. Unbeknownst to her, the big lug is sweet on Juanita. In the grand tradition of Frankenstein movies, the creation disobeys orders and kills its creator. After Igor kills Maria, he attacks his partner in crime. Juanita shoots Igor dead before he can kill Jesse James. Some may criticize this movie because of the basic incompatibility of the Western and horror movie genres, or because of its absurd plot. Still others will point to the bargain basement sets, the corny dialogue and the wooden acting. As for myself, I gave this movie five stars because of its originality, and because I'm still recovering from my lobotomy!
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