The Ballad of Josie (1967)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. Director:Andrew V. McLaglenWriter:Harold Swanton |
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| Doris Day | ... |
Josie Minick
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| Peter Graves | ... |
Jason Meredith
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| George Kennedy | ... |
Arch Ogden
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Judge Tatum
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William Talman | ... |
District Attorney Charlie Lord
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| David Hartman | ... |
Sheriff Fonse Pruitt
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Guy Raymond | ... |
Doc
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Audrey Christie | ... |
Annabelle Pettijohn
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Karen Jensen | ... |
Deborah Wilkes
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Elisabeth Fraser | ... |
Widow Renfrew
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Linda Meiklejohn | ... |
Jenny McCardle
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Shirley O'Hara | ... |
Elizabeth
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Timothy Scott | ... |
Klugg
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| Don Stroud | ... |
Bratsch
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Alpheus Minick
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Josie Minick is a widow, who is forced to fend for herself. Josie living in a cattle country, finds herself in odds and war with the cattlemen of the town, when she decides to make a sheep farm her livelihood. Written by Kelly
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1 February 1967 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch See more »Company Credits
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Arch Ogden: You got one minute, Charlie, and that's all!
Charlie Lord: You'll give me twenty years if you lay a finger on that girl out there and if there's any bodily harm done - or death - you're going to give me all you got left - at the end of a rope!
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Lyrics by Floyd Huddleston
Music by Don Costa
Sung by Ron Dante (as Ronnie Dante)
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Doris Day wrote in her 1975 autobiography that this was one of the films that she did not want to do but was forced to do because her husband/manager Martin Melcher had power of attorney and signed her for it without her knowledge or consent. She called this a "second-rate television western" that required her to get up at 4:30 every morning. However, she did enjoy the camaraderie of the cast members. See more »Goofs
Josie gets caught on a roll of flypaper, the type of which was not invented until 50 years after the movie was set. See more »Quotes
Charlie Lord: [sarcastically] Hail the conquering hero.Arch Ogden: You got one minute, Charlie, and that's all!
Charlie Lord: You'll give me twenty years if you lay a finger on that girl out there and if there's any bodily harm done - or death - you're going to give me all you got left - at the end of a rope!
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"The Ballad of Josie"Lyrics by Floyd Huddleston
Music by Don Costa
Sung by Ron Dante (as Ronnie Dante)
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The Ballad of Josie for Doris Day marked the beginning of the end of her film career. Her agent/husband/svengali Martin Melcher forced her into a whole lot of mediocre films because he knew and she would find out that their wealth was something done with mirrors. She had to keep working.
Not that it's a bad film, just not a terribly good one. It's populated with a whole good cast of veteran players and her leading man in this is Peter Graves. Graves is someone who should have had a good career as a screen lead in his youth. Unfortunately he got to do a lot of bad science fiction movies(and some real classic good ones) which didn't help. He opted for the small screen instead.
William Talman makes his farewell appearance here. He's a big shot politician who sees his dream of statehood in Wyoming going down the tubes because of the controversy of Doris Day trying to raise sheep in what has been traditionally cattle country.
Doris's husband Robert Lowery is killed in the first few minutes of the film. She has to raise her son alone now and lots of professions and trades were closed to her as they were to women back in that day. She decides to become a shepherd as she's told it doesn't have the overhead expense of cattle on the 460 acres she's inherited.
That starts a whole big controversy with a shooting range war about to break out.
Granted that women were kept barefoot and pregnant in those days, but it's hard to believe that Doris might not have heard SOME discussion about the cattle and sheep problem and why there was this unofficial line of demarcation in Arapahoe County, Wyoming.
Fans of Doris will want to see her in anything though.