Indian raids are being perpetrated by an outlaw gang in disguise.Indian raids are being perpetrated by an outlaw gang in disguise.Indian raids are being perpetrated by an outlaw gang in disguise.
Richard Alexander
- Poker Player Who Challenges Jim
- (uncredited)
Don Barclay
- Joe
- (uncredited)
Robert Barron
- Gambler
- (uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- GoofsMcNamara's Band wasn't written until 1889.
- Quotes
Calamity Jane: Hiya, boys!
Bob Holliday: Hello, Jane. When did you get in town?
Calamity Jane: A few minutes ago. Just hit the jackpot, so I'm buying the drinks.
Bob Holliday: Busy now.
Calamity Jane: Aw, now, a lady don't enjoy drinking by herself. We sitting together at the show tonight?
Bob Holliday: Maybe. You going home and change your clothes? Don't you ever wear dresses anymore?
Calamity Jane: Not unless I have to. Makes me feel too darn effeminate.
- ConnectionsEdited from Riders of Death Valley (1941)
Featured review
Frances Farmer's best late performance as Calamity Jane
An interesting, fairly high-budget (at least by Universal standards) western, mixing historical characters like Will Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane in a fictional environment. The cast is uniformly excellent and fairly eclectic, including Broderick Crawford and Robert Stack as brothers (and there is quite a family resemblance--NOT), Lon Chaney Jr., comedy relief by Andy Devine and Hugh Herbert, a barbershop quartet (in fact, everything including the kitchen sink), but most importantly, a radiant Frances Farmer in an impressive characterization as Calamity Jane. More luminous than Jean Arthur, and more raucous and even vulnerable than Doris Day, this is easily Farmer's best performance from the last part of her career before her unfortunate arrest and institutionalization. The film seems to have been worked on by several writers, and veers back and forth between straight narrative and some obviously interpolated comedy bits and barbershop numbers. An enjoyable, if historically laughable, western from Hollywood's golden era. Farmer fans will be thrilled.
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- Mar 31, 2001
Details
- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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