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The Gay Desperado is a 1936 American comedy film starring Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, and Nino Martini and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, produced by Mary Pickford, and originally released by United Artists.
The Gay Desperado: Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. With Nino Martini, Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, Harold Huber. Chivo, a singer who works in a movie theater providing live entertainment, is invited by music-loving Mexican bandit Braganza to join his band.
Gay Desperado, The -- (Movie Clip) Senor` Troubadour Braganza (Leo Carillo) hijacks a Mexican radio station as a platform for his kidnapped adviser Chivo (Opera star Nino Martini) in Rouben Mamoulian's The Gay Desperado, 1936.
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Overview. Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.
Mexican gangster Pablo Braganza (Leo Carillo) plays by his own rules. When a movie theater owner stops an altercation by having famous singer Chivo (Nino Martini) entertain, Pablo kidnaps Chivo ...
The Gay Desperado is a 1936 musical lampooning the then-popular gangster pictures. Leo Carrillo plays a genial Mexican bandit, Pablo Braganza, who gets nowhere until he and his amigos begin studying gangster techniques -- courtesy of Hollywood movies.
