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5.6/10   286 votes
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Director:
Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer:
Harold Swanton (written by)
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Release Date:
1 February 1967 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Western more
Tagline:
IT'S QUICK-DRAW DORIS! (original ad - all caps) more
Plot:
A young woman stirs things up in a western town by raising sheep instead of cattle, and organizing the local women to demonstrate for women's suffrage. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A perfectly acceptable entertainment.....for 1937 more (10 total)

Cast

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Doris Day ... Josie Minick
Peter Graves ... Jason Meredith
George Kennedy ... Arch Ogden
Andy Devine ... Judge Tatum
William Talman ... District Attorney Charlie Lord
David Hartman ... Sheriff Fonse Pruitt
Guy Raymond ... Doc
Audrey Christie ... Annabelle Pettijohn
Karen Jensen ... Deborah Wilkes
Elisabeth Fraser ... Widow Renfrew
Linda Meiklejohn ... Jenny McCardle
Shirley O'Hara ... Elizabeth
Timothy Scott ... Klugg - Sheepherder
Don Stroud ... Bratsch - Sheepherder
Paul Fix ... Alpheus Minick, Whit's Father
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
102 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
UK:PG (re-rating) (2006) | UK:U (original rating) | West Germany:6 (nf) | Sweden:11 | West Germany:6 | Australia:PG
Company:
Universal Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
William Talman's final movie role. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: Josie gets caught on a roll of flypaper, the type of which was not invented until 50 years after the movie was set. more
Quotes:
Klugg: We never could figure out if they was kinfolk come to join the fight or just strangers passin' through.
Josie Minick: Well, that was awful!
Klugg: Yes, ma'am, it surely was, them being dead thataway. We never could figure out who'd have to bury 'em.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Sometimes a Great Notion (1970) more
Soundtrack:
Wait Till Tomorrow more

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A perfectly acceptable entertainment.....for 1937, 22 May 2001
4/10
Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

One of Doris Day's lesser-known entries from late in her film career, one even she wishes she had passed on. Feisty female turns rancher in this feminist western, butting heads with the local-yokels in a distaff variation on "The Sheepman". Doris doesn't look her best here (blame it on that wig), although her conniption fits are as funny as ever. When Day gets her ire up, it's really something to behold. But the film is unbelievably anachronistic, especially since this was 1967. No wonder she later turned to TV; this plays like a failed TV pilot, with a supporting cast to match! Directed by genre-mainstay Andrew V. McLaglen, who must have been looking at his watch. *1/2 from ****

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