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A forgotten but as I remember truly outstanding Western


Anyone browsing here is strongly advised to get a copy of this movie if any are available. Wild Bill Elliot was usually a better than adequate B western hero and this could easily be the best of his.

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I've always had the hots for Marie Windsor the REAL star of the movie, even though she got second billing. But I must admit that Elliot was great too. Both the hero and anti-heroine play truly offbeat roles and this is definitely a cerebral, "thinking man's (or woman's)" Western!

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Ah yes, I remember Wild Bill Elliot as also being Red Ryder. Even as a kid, I was a bit critical of the casting because he sure didn't have any physical resemblance to the comic strip hero, but I still enjoyed the movies.

And yes, Marie Windsor was a hot gal in those days.

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...a 'Doll' indeed! Along with Wrangler Jane (F Troop's Melody Patterson), Barbara Bel Geddes in 'Blood on the Moon', Dorothy Malone in 'The Nevadan', Barbara Britton in 'Gunfighters' ('47), Michele Carey in 'El Dorado', Jane Fonda in 'Cat Ballou', Ella Raines in 'Tall in the Saddle' and 'Singing Guns' and 'The Walking Hills', Michele Carey in 'El Dorado', Joan Hackett and Suzanne Pleshette in the 'Support Your Local 'Sheriff/Gunfighter)' films, Gail Davis as Annie Oakley, and Carolina Cotton in just about anything, Marie Windsor--a classic film noir temptress--is one of my faves...

anyone else?



P.S. this is the only film I've ever seen--'message' picture or not--that does not have 'The End' at the end. The last screen title reads 'Amen'(!)



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You may want to check out "Two Gun Lady". Peggy Castle is the girl gunslinger in this one. AND Marie Windsor has a more peripheral role as a conventional Wild West villainess.

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will do...thanks!

also add to that list: Karen Steele in 'Ride Lonesome'. As Pernell Roberts says, just thinking of her 'gives me a way-down shiver'...


'We all dream of being a child again - even the worst of us. Perhaps the worst most of all...'

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