The fabulous Janis Paige plays a well dressed variation of Calamity Jane, who as Kate Shepherd tells Wayne Morris after shooting his hat off tells him, "If you feel like being a man again..." She's a "fabuloys" bad girl, wanting to join forces with the Youngers, but being a woman in a chauvinistic world, easily dismissed. I couldn't find evidence of a real Kate Shepherd, so she must be a fictionalized version of Belle Starr, a character in at least three 20th Century Fox westerns I've seen. But Paige is definitely commanding, even though this is a change of pace for the musical comedy star.
Colorful and action packed, it's still a Hollywood fantasia on the western bandits, with Morris, Bruce Bennett and Robert Hutton as the brothers, snarky Fred Clark as a federal agent and Alan Hale (Sr.) as the pursuing sheriff, also featuring Geraldine Brooks in a more traditional female role. Don't watch this thinking that you're getting much of the truth, but as entertainment, it passes the mark as an acceptable piece of tall tale telling. Paige certainly makes her mark here as a very tough woman, completely walking away with the film even though the script didn't give her much dimension to work with.
Colorful and action packed, it's still a Hollywood fantasia on the western bandits, with Morris, Bruce Bennett and Robert Hutton as the brothers, snarky Fred Clark as a federal agent and Alan Hale (Sr.) as the pursuing sheriff, also featuring Geraldine Brooks in a more traditional female role. Don't watch this thinking that you're getting much of the truth, but as entertainment, it passes the mark as an acceptable piece of tall tale telling. Paige certainly makes her mark here as a very tough woman, completely walking away with the film even though the script didn't give her much dimension to work with.