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THE KISSING BANDIT
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CREDITS
1948, 102 minutes, Technicolor.
Producer, Joe Pasternak; Director, Laszlo Benedek; Screenplay, Isobel Lennart and John Briard Harding; Cinematography, Robert Surtees; Music Direction, Georgie Stoll; Choreography, Stanley Donen.
CAST
Ricardo, Frank Sinatra; Teresa, Kathryn Grayson; Chico, J. Carroll Naish; Isabella, Mildred Natwick; Don Jose, Mikhail Rasumny; General Toro, Billy Gilbert; Colonel Gomez, Clinton Sundberg; Counte Belmonte, Carelton Young; Bianca, Sono Osato; Specialty Dancers, Ann Miller, Ricardo Montalban and Cyd Charisse.
SONGS
Love Is Where You Find It by Nacio Herb Brown and Earl Brent; If I Steal A Kiss; Senorita; Siesta; What's Wrong With Me?; Tomorrow Means Romance; I Like You by Brown, Brent and Edward Heyman; Dance of Fury.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
"In old California, a young businessman [Sinatra] finds he is expected to keep up his bandit father's criminal and romantic reputation."
- Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Film Guide
NOTES
"Frank Sinatra came a cropper in The Kissing Bandit, a musical romance whose vivid color by Technicolor in no way compensated for the dullness of [the] screenplay."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
"Silly, witless musical which never settles into gear; mocked by its star as [Jack] Benny mocked The Horn Blows At Midnight."
- Halliwell's Film Guide
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