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One Mad Kiss

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Mona Maris and José Mojica in One Mad Kiss (1930)
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Estrada, the chief government official of the region, has put a price on the head of José Savedra for causing the local people to rebel against his tax collectors. Dancer Rosario Montes also... Read allEstrada, the chief government official of the region, has put a price on the head of José Savedra for causing the local people to rebel against his tax collectors. Dancer Rosario Montes also thinks that the tax levied against her "Fandango Café" is excessive and is not inclined t... Read allEstrada, the chief government official of the region, has put a price on the head of José Savedra for causing the local people to rebel against his tax collectors. Dancer Rosario Montes also thinks that the tax levied against her "Fandango Café" is excessive and is not inclined to pay. With typical bravura, José posts notices all over the town that, on his next visit ... Read all
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  • Directors
    • Marcel Silver
    • James Tinling
  • Writers
    • Dudley Nichols(adaptation)
    • Adolf Paul(play "Lola Montez, the Spanish Dancer")
  • Stars
    • José Mojica
    • Mona Maris
    • Antonio Moreno
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  • Directors
    • Marcel Silver
    • James Tinling
  • Writers
    • Dudley Nichols(adaptation)
    • Adolf Paul(play "Lola Montez, the Spanish Dancer")
  • Stars
    • José Mojica
    • Mona Maris
    • Antonio Moreno
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    • José Salvedraas José Salvedra
    Mona Maris
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    • Rosarioas Rosario
    Antonio Moreno
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    • Don Estradaas Don Estrada
    Tom Patricola
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    • Pacoas Paco
    Frankie Genardi
    • Directors
      • Marcel Silver
      • James Tinling
    • Writers
      • Dudley Nichols(adaptation) (dialogue)
      • Adolf Paul(play "Lola Montez, the Spanish Dancer") (story)
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    • Trivia
      This film is believed lost.
    • Connections
      Alternate-language version of El precio de un beso (1930)
    • Soundtracks
      Oh, Where Are You?
      Lyrics by José Mojica

      Music by Troy Sanders

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    Dudley Nichols on an off day.
    Dudley Nichols was one of the great screenwriters of Hollywood's golden era, scripting or co-scripting such classic films as 'Stagecoach', 'The Informer' and 'Bringing Up Baby'. I hope eventually to view every Nichols film that still has an extant print. I sought out 'One Mad Kiss' solely because Nichols has a script credit. This is a very low-budget Fox western: I'm not a huge fan of westerns in general, and Fox's contributions to the genre were (with a few exceptions) below the genre's standard.

    'One Mad Kiss' manages to conflate two subgenres of the cowboy film. This is a singing-cowboy movie, and it's also a rip-off of 'The Mark of Zorro' and similar tales with a 'Robin Hood' type heroic outlaw on horseback. In this case, the singing cowboy is also the 'Zorro' imitator, in the person of José Mojica playing a vacquero named José Salvedra. He rides into a banana republic which is not so republican, ruled by the cruel dictator Don Estrada. Along the way, José falls for the charms of the dancing girl Rosario (shouldn't that be Rosaria?). The thrills and romance are strictly by the numbers, with some very substandard songs along the way.

    I nodded off a couple of times during this movie, which Nichols must have written on an off day. The hero is one of those romantic drifters who is a master of every skill. He's an expert horseman (very plausible), but he also throws knives with unerring accuracy (a bit less plausible, this) and he's a dab hand at swinging from the chandelier. Could we please have a permanent embargo on movie heroes who swing from the chandelier? I've never yet seen a chandelier that was structurally capable of supporting the weight of a man. In 'One Mad Kiss', it doesn't help that the stunt sequences are ineptly and unconvincingly staged.

    This movie is badly directed by two different people, neither of whom I've ever heard of. The photography and shot matching are poor, too. I doubt that even viewers who like westerns will enjoy this movie. The songs are dull. Mojica isn't much of an actor, and he sings in a vocal style that is now very much out of fashion and probably wasn't very popular even in the 1930s. Antonio Moreno, as the villain, easily out-acts the romantic leads. I'm tempted to rate 'One Mad Kiss' only one point out of ten, but -- as I admittedly dislike westerns -- I'll abstain from giving this movie any rating at all.
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    • F Gwynplaine MacIntyre
    • Mar 25, 2005

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    • Release date
      • July 13, 1930 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Loucura de um Beijo
    • Production company
      • Fox Film Corporation
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 4 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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