
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.... (Full plot summary below)
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Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
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| VarietyVariety StaffPreston Sturges plays his script [based on a story by Earl Felton] with frantic slapstick, stressing raw, bawdy comedy rather than genuine humor, to get the laughs. |
| The SpectatorVirginia GrahamA parody should surely be subtle with a fine humorous edge to it, but here we have nothing but exaggeration of a most obstreperous kind. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceNot so much a lament for the end of the West but for the end of the 1940s |
| New York TimesBosley CrowtherTo paraphrase the theme song, it looks pretty well shot in the end. |
| User ReviewKevin NAn underrated oddity made toward the end of Preston Sturges' career, this is an unabashed, unrestrained farce with a whole lot of things going for it. Betty Grable fits the part perfectly; she is smart and sexy, a dangerous and unpredictable presence who controls every scene and keeps the film sharp. She is backed by a fine cast of oddballs and misfits, the most enjoyable being Rudy Vallee, an actor who made a number of memorable movies with Sturges. Part of what makes the film so charming is its total lack of pretension; it is what it is and it knows it, a wild and carefree comedy heavy on the slapstick and without any manners whatsoever. It dashes from one scenario to the next without worrying about the logistics of its story and delivers a thick dose of laughs for a fleeting seventy-one minutes. It's a film that works on far more levels than just as a Sturges curio, one that has been mostly forgotten but is very much worth digging up. |
| User ReviewBlake PEnjoyable but nothing out of the ordinary, Betty Grable is good as she usually is. Colorful, elaborate costumes and an overall good production is a plus. |
| User ReviewGreg Wwestern musical or a musical western either way not for me |