Monday, June 26, 2017

Jun 26th  
Cat Ballou**     

(US 1965)                        

A rancher's daughter turns outlaw after a drunken gunfighter fails to protect her father from being killed.
Entertaining Western spoof at the onset of a dying genre, taking care to subvert most of the cliches, but still enjoyable enough in its own right.

Written by: Walter Newman, Frank Newman, from the novel "The Ballad of Cat Ballou" by Roy Chanslor.
Producer: Harold Hecht.
Director: Elliot Silverstein.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Nat King Cole, Stubby Kaye, John Marley, Reginald Denny, Bruce Cabot, Arthur Hunnicutt (as Butch Cassidy).
Photography: Jack A. Marta.
Music: Frank De Vol (songs by Mack David, Jerry Livingston).

Preceded by:
The Lure of the Gown
(US 1909. 6m. Biograph. bw. silent; d: D.W. Griffith; s: Florence Lawrence, Harry Solter, Marion Leonard, Edwin August.)

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