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1953 (Austria)
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JIM BOWIE...a man with his name on a knife - and a woman with a weapon all her own!
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Barely historical presentation of the life of Jim Bowie. Here he goes to New Orleans to sell lumber but falls in love with Judalon...
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Weapons, snowballs!.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Alan Ladd | ... | Jim Bowie | |
| Virginia Mayo | ... | Judalon de Bornay | |
| Joseph Calleia | ... | Juan Moreno | |
| Phyllis Kirk | ... | Ursula de Varamendi | |
| Alf Kjellin | ... | Phillipe de Cabanal | |
| Douglas Dick | ... | Narcisse de Bornay | |
| Anthony Caruso | ... | Jack Studenvant (as Tony Caruso) | |
| Nedrick Young | ... | Henri Contrecourt (as Ned Young) | |
| George Voskovec | ... | John James Audubon | |
| Richard Carlyle | ... | Rezin Bowie | |
| Robert Emhardt | ... | Gen. Cuny | |
| Don Beddoe | ... | Dr. Cuny (as Donald Beddoe) | |
| Harold Gordon | ... | Andrew Marschalk | |
| Jay Novello | ... | Judge Crain | |
| Nick Dennis | ... | Nez Coupe |
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110 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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USA:Approved (certificate #15877) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:(Banned) |
Finland:K-16 (re-rating) |
Sweden:15
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Jim Bowie:
Ma...I killed a man.
Mrs. Bowie: Did he need killin'?
Jim Bowie: About as much as any man ever did.
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Mrs. Bowie: Did he need killin'?
Jim Bowie: About as much as any man ever did.
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Referenced in Le ballon rouge (1956)
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Jim Bowie sets off to sell lumber in New Orleans, but once there he is captivated by the beautiful Judalon de Bornay and finds that life here is vastly different to that of home. Getting himself into many scrapes on account of his feelings for Judalon, Bowie invents a new kind of Knife, the Iron Mistress, and from here a legend is born.
Nobody should go into this picture expecting a Jim Bowie biography, in fact Western fans who haven't seen it should be advised that it barely registers as a Western piece. What it is, is a fine picture that certainly appears to be undervalued {if a little under seen} on the IMDb site. It's full of dandy men fighting and duelling with honour and guts, beautiful women that are surely worth fighting for, and of course it introduces us to the legendary Bowie Knife.
It's based on a Paul Wellman novel, and by all accounts the film is pretty loyal to Wellman's ideals, it doesn't however take us all the way to the Alamo. Alan Ladd takes the lead role of Bowie, shiny blonde hair and brooding for all he is worth, fans of his performance in Shane should definitely check this one out, it's a great performance from Ladd, the kind that makes the gals go gooey and the boys to thump their chests. Virginia Mayo is Judalon and positively simmers with sexual beauty, the character is akin to a viper, and the pot boiling sexual tension is palpable in the extreme, she is in short, a woman men will die for.
Some scenes are just terrific, a duel in a darkened room that is only lit by the odd flash of lightning thru a window, a knife fight as two men with one armed tied to each other face off in a circle of honour, and of course Jim Bowie in every encounter, his violent gutsy bravado fearsome as his reputation escalates. At the time of writing only 141 people have voted on this picture, only 10 people have bothered to write a user comment for it, that's a shame because although it may not be a Western as such, it's a dam fine romantic, dandy, drama with a Western legend at its core. 8/10