"Daphne, you're leading again!" Oh, sorry, wrong movie. But Joe E. Brown gets the dresses, padded bras and corsets in this western spoof where he dresses as a woman in order not to be killed by a bandit out to kill him because he has been named the new marshal. Jack Lemmon must have watched a few of the movies where Brown dressed in drag because many of his mannerisms in "Some Like It Hot" were emulated by what Brown did in these films.
Brown even gets to do an acrobatic dance with the bandit who has insisted that Brown (as "Henrietta") be companion to the daughter of the kidnapped saloon owner is is awaiting ransom on. Adele Mara is the pretty heroine, with Fritz Feld as Brown's assistant who pretends to be Brown's "husband".
You won't be surprised to learn that Brown does not make a very convincing woman, but neither did Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Ray Bolger or Bert Wheeler. At one point, he even makes himself resemble Harpo Marx. The result is funny whether it works or not because in a Joe E. Brown film, reality isn't expected, just loads of gags.
Brown even gets to do an acrobatic dance with the bandit who has insisted that Brown (as "Henrietta") be companion to the daughter of the kidnapped saloon owner is is awaiting ransom on. Adele Mara is the pretty heroine, with Fritz Feld as Brown's assistant who pretends to be Brown's "husband".
You won't be surprised to learn that Brown does not make a very convincing woman, but neither did Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Ray Bolger or Bert Wheeler. At one point, he even makes himself resemble Harpo Marx. The result is funny whether it works or not because in a Joe E. Brown film, reality isn't expected, just loads of gags.