THE IRISH GRINGO (1936) belongs in the same camp category as MANIAC, PLAN NINE and SEXTETTE. It's a movie so awful, it's beautiful. Our hero is a guy dressed as a mexican cowboy who does nothing to help the on-screen situations other than explain "You see, one half of me is Irish, the other half is Mexican!" A treasure map is written on an ugly's girls's shirt, and of course everybody and his pet rattlesnake is after the treasure. The film stops dead in it's tracks mid point to spotlight a one-man-band who actually is quite entertaining. Directed by William Thompson, who photographed MANIAC and PLAN NINE.
Review of The Irish Gringo
