Nach der gleichnamigen Operette von Carl Millöcker. In dem Phantasiestaat Olivia treibt der Räuberhauptmann Gasparone allerlei Unfug. Aber nicht nur mit ihm hat Statthalter Nasoni seine Sorgen, auch sein Sohn Sindulfo bereitet ihm Kopfzerbrechen. Er soll die Gräfin Ambrat heiraten, liebt aber Ita, die Nichte von Massaccio, einer etwas undurchsichtigen Person. Da taucht der elegante Erminio auf, dem wiederum die Gräfin schöne Augen macht. Verwirrung über Verwirrung, bis Massaccio als Gasparone entlarvt wird. Erminio entpuppt sich als Staatsbeamter, der auf Gasparone angesetzt war und nun seine schöne Gräfin bekommt. Als Letzter schließt Sindulfo seine Ita in die Arme.

Gasparone was one of several George Jacoby-directed movies designed to promote the film career of musical-comedy star Maria Rokk. Although the casting of Fraulein Rokk was at first opposed by German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, he eventually and mysteriously relented, though it certainly wouldn't be the last time that movie casting decisions would be made by the mercurial Goebbels. The story concerns a nationwide manhunt for a robber and woman-abductor called "Gasparone". In fact, there is no such person: Gasparone has been invented to keep the cops busy whenever restauranteur Massacio (Oskar Sima) is receiving his latest shipment of contraband coffee. Helping Massacio pull off this subterfuge is his pretty niece Ita (Rokk). The plot thickens when a handsome stranger (Johanne Heesters) is accused of being the elusive Gasparone.

THERE IS A NEWSREEL PREVIEW BEFORE THE FILM, JUST AS GERMAN AUDIENCES MIGHT HAVE SEEN WHEN THE MOVIE WAS FIRST SHOWN (except this newsreel may not be contemporary to when the film was released).

DVD-R IS IN GERMAN WITH NO SUBTITLES (except for the Newsreel). APPROX. 109 MINS. COMBINED TOTAL. EXCELLENT, DIGITAL DVD FILM QUALITY OVERALL.