1h 30min | Comedy, Music, Western | 18 April 1950
Director: Richard Sale
Stars: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Marilyn Monroe.
Kenny Williams ... dances staged by
Watched online, poor print & 3 min short?
Really not deserving of genre music/al; only 3 songs performed, and 2 are partial, strummed and sung in part. We do get a "production" number of 4 chorus girls (including MM in a non-speaking part) plus DD, singin' and dancin' in the dust, which is cute. MM doesn't get any more to do than the other 3, but she wears her hat differently, and catches your eye somehow, perhaps as the only familiar face.
Previously (2014-06-03) rated 4, I don't see anything irritating enough to deserve that score.
This is primarily a Western, with the feminist tint of AB as sheriff (who relinquishes that job to housewifery/motherhood in the end), but her mate relinquishes his former "calling" too. Another twist: a hostile Indian tribe has an Americanized chief; our last view of him is an unintended foreshadowing of casinos to come.
Fox, dir. Sale; 6
