History Film / JesseJamesMeetsFrankensteinsDaughter

* PleaseShootTheMessenger: Maria tries to get rid of Jesse by giving him an envelope she says contains a prescription for Hank, and sending him to Prescott to get it filled. However, the envelope actually contains telling the druggist the bearer is the outlaw Jesse James, and telling to summon the authorities.

* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: Juanita says this almost word for word when she examines Hank's wound. As Jesse and Hank cannot go to regular doctor, she takes them to the Frankensteins.

''Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter'' is a low-budget western/horror hybrid film released in 1966, in which a fictionalized version of the real-life western outlaw Jesse James encounters the fictional [[NeverTrustATitle granddaughter]] (the movie's title notwithstanding) of the famous Dr. Frankenstein. The film was originally released as part of a double feature along with ''Billy the Kid Versus Dracula'' in 1966. Both films were shot in eight days at Corriganville Movie Ranch and at Paramount Studios in mid-1965; both were the final feature films of director William Beaudine.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Jesse James

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''Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter'' is a low-budget western/horror hybrid film released in 1966, in which a fictionalized version of the real-life western outlaw Jesse James encounters the fictional granddaughter (the movie's title notwithstanding) of the famous Dr. Frankenstein. The film was originally released as part of a double feature along with ''Billy the Kid Versus Dracula'' in 1966. Both films were shot in eight days at Corriganville Movie Ranch and at Paramount Studios in mid-1965; both were the final feature films of director William Beaudine.

In an ancient monastery overlooking a small village in Mexico lives Maria Frankenstein (Narda Onyx) and her brother, Rudolph (Steven Geray),the grandchildren of the infamous Dr. Frankenstein, whose monster creation horrified Europe fifty years ago. Running from an American posse, Jesse James (John Lupton) and his friend Hank Tracy (Cal Bolder), the last of the James gang. Hank is wounded. They meet Juanita Lopez (Estelita Rodriguez), and she takes them to the only doctor in the village. Once there, Maria sees this as a chance to complete the work of her grandfather. She sends Jesse and Juanita to get medicine for Hank and, while they are gone, performs a brain-transplant on Hank, and names the result Igor. She then orders him to kill her brother. Jesse returns and Maria tells him Hank has left. Jesse suspects otherwise.

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Rudolph is far to softhearted to be a MadScientist, and Maria eventually discovers that he has been sabotaging her experiments.
* NeutralFemale: After she is kidnapped by an Indian, Jesse arrives to rescue her. She stands by wringing her hands and praying while Jesse and the Indian fight; instead of, say, picking up a rock and hitting the Indian. In the final battle, it looks like she is doing the same thing again as Jesse and Igor wrestle. However, [[spoiler:she somehow finds the wherewithal to pick up Jesse's dropped gun and shoot Igor]].

* CutHimselfShaving: Jesse unconvincingly attempts to explain away hank's gunshot wound by saying he shot himself while cleaning his gun.

* MadScientist: Maria Frankenstein, who experiments on the inhabitants of a Mexican village in an effort to recreate her grandfather's BrainTansplant technique. Her brother Rudolph has the same skills, but is plagued by a pesky conscience.

* BrainTransplant: Maria transplants her grandfather's artifical brain into Hank's body.
* HistoricalInJoke: Jesse introduces himself to Maria as 'Mr. Howard': the name he was living under when he was killed in RealLife.

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Rudolph is far to softhearted to be a MadScientist, and Maria eventually discovers that he has been sabotaging her experimenst.

* WlakingShirtlessScene: The muscular Hank is shirtless from the time Maria transplants the artificial brain into his body onwards.
* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: Jaunita says this almost word for word when she examines Hank's wound. As Jesse and Hank cannot go to regular doctor, she takes them to the Frankensteins.

* WouldHarmAChild: At the start of the movie, the Frankensteins have already killed three village children in the course of their experiments.