preppy-3 Jesse James (John Lupton) and his ridiculously muscled partner Hank Tracy (Cal Bolder) are on the run from the police. Hank gets shot in the arm and needs help. Luckily there's a doctor nearby who will help them. Unfortunately she happens to be Maria Frankenstein (Narda Onyx) who wants to experiment on hunky Hank and make him her slave.This has all the makings of a camp classic--a ridiculous title, a stupid plot, bad acting and campy dialogue. Unfortunately it's also very slow and dull. I kept dozing off during it! The only interesting things about it are seeing Bolder with his shirt off (that man was BUILT) and Onyx's way over the top performance as Frankenstein. Other than those two things this is a snooze. Avoid.

MARIO GAUCI This is how I ended my review of BILLY THE KID VS. Dracula (1966): "In short, a fun film for all the wrong reasons – and I can't say that I'm looking forward to viewing its companion piece, JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER". Now that I have caught up with the latter, there is more to that statement than I had intended – since this is not only as bad as that film was but a good deal worse, and rather less fun to watch! Again, the famed Western outlaw (an over-age and thoroughly uncharismatic John Lupton) is completely white-washed here and, given that the chief baddie in this case is a woman, he re-awakens her (seemingly) long-repressed romantic attentions…which, however, go unrequited as his own interest lies in a local (i.e. Mexican) girl who, as it happens, has always been the prime thorn in the villainess' side!Frankly, the hardest thing to take in the film is not the genre mish-mash (since it had already been done reasonably effectively in CURSE OF THE UNDEAD [1959]) but the fact that Frankenstein's Daughter has a brother who – as played by veteran character actor Steven Geray on his last legs – is at an age where he could well pass for her grandfather!!; ashamed of the name he bears, his character is forever attempting to thwart his obsessed sister's life-giving experiments! The latter, then, is Narda Onyx: her career lasted some 10 years but, in that time, she appeared in only 3 feature films (this being her last)! Anyway, she kidnaps young men from the village but they always seem to die in the course of the 'operation' or subsequent 'treatment' (of course, due to Geray's meddling!).Eventually, the cowboy and his even milder cohort (Cal Bolder) are cornered and shot at (since the partners they choose to pull off a stagecoach raid prove duplicitous!): when the latter is wounded, they end up at the Frankenstein castle – where Onyx immediately sets her eyes on the two of them (for very different reasons). Deciding that her failure was due to the puny subjects (which the lady doctor had tried to revive via electricity-charged helmets!), she finds Bolder's brawny figure ideal…and, before long, she has not only messed up his brain (as evidenced by the bald look and ugly stitches all the way round the young man's forehead!) but even renamed him Igor (also parading thereafter without a shirt, this no doubt was done to show off the actor's muscular physique)!! None of the action or plot development is in any way original or memorable, so I will just end my comments with another quote (this time from the DVD Drive-In website review of the film): "This movie also has the funniest tombstone marking that you'll ever witness!" – to which I will only add, "Damn right"!

Zeegrade What do you want on your tombstone? They should have buried this movie with poor Hank and spare the world of this tedious western/horror crossover. When an attempted robbery goes wrong because of a setup with the local Marshall, Jesse James and his wounded hulking partner try to find medical attention that won't lead to their capture. Lucky for him that he stumbles upon some woodland Mexicans and their daughter Juanita who tells Jesse that there is a chance that the oddball doctors in their village might be just what he's looking for. Turns out that these doctors are the grandchildren of Baron Frankenstein himself, Maria and Rudolph, who have relocated to the American Southwest to take advantage of a certain kind of electrical storm that seems to be common here. Didn't know lightning was so discriminating. When the titular meeting takes place Maria instantly recognizes that the injured brute is just what the doctor ordered. See what I did there? Maria also falls for Jesse as her only male companionship is in the form of her brother Rudolph who she berates constantly. When her amorous advances are rejected by Jesse she becomes enraged and turns Hank, who was recovering from his gunshot wound, into Igor the Frankenstein monster.Directed by William Beaudine who is better known for his work with Disney this second billing film after "Billy the Kid vs Dracula" is about as riveting as any given episode of The Mickey Mouse Club. Being a fan only of spaghetti westerns made this a real chore to watch as the dry acting and plodding pace was putting me to sleep long before any meeting took place. It's not a poorly produced film or one of those "so bad it's good" films by any stretch of the imagination. It's just so damn boring that I'm confident that I will have no desire to watch this coma inducing fluff ever again. Do not resurrect this movie.

Robert J. Maxwell Actually it's not Frankenstein's daughter, it's his granddaughter. Not that it makes any difference. Why should it make any difference? Nothing in this cheap, parting shot from the never-estimable William Beaudine makes any difference.The opening shows us Narda Onyx and Steven Geray, two mad scientists in their laboratory in a tiny Western town, fulminating over their need for new brains and bodies to create life.Then there is a long story about Jesse James, played by John Lupton, whom I remember only as "Sister" Marion in "Battle Cry." He was the upright Marine who was going to write the great American novel. His close friend, Cal Bolder, a refugee from Muscle Beach, is wounded in a shoot out with grim, determined, humorless marshal Jim Davis.A feisty Latina, Estelita, leads them to the nearest doctors, who are of course the Frankenstein couple. They put a new brain into the wounded Cal Bolder and attempt the same with Jesse James but Estelita steps in at the last minute and saves his bacon.Estelita is a petite and very attractive Cuban lady. She was the wife of Carlito, the hotel manager, in "Rio Bravo," and was pretty good. Here she emotes to beat the band.She can't save this movie, though. Nothing could, not even Joe Bob Briggs' commentary on the DVD. I can hardly bring myself to believe that anyone really went to a drive-in movie to watch a dismal feature like this. Who was it aimed at? The only human being who could find it in any way impressive would have to be an Australian aborigine from the central desert who had never heard of movies.Of course the sets were cheap, but that's not enough of an excuse. You can do a lot on a tiny budget, as Val Lewton showed us at RKO, and as other producers and directors proved elsewhere. Here, the writing stinks. The plot makes no sense. The actors wear the same clothes in every scene.It's not bad in a way that evokes laughter. Like John Wayne's rabidly mesomorphic "The Conqueror," a few minutes of it will satisfy your curiosity. The remaining hour and a half constitute torture.