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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Lee Marvin | ... | Shelleen / Strawn | |
| Jane Fonda | ... | Cat Ballou | |
| Michael Callan | ... | Clay Boone | |
| Dwayne Hickman | ... | Jed | |
| Nat 'King' Cole | ... | Shouter / Sunrise Kid (as Nat King Cole) | |
| Stubby Kaye | ... | Shouter / Sam the Shade | |
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Tom Nardini | ... | Jackson Two-Bears |
| John Marley | ... | Frankie Ballou | |
| Reginald Denny | ... | Sir Harry Percival | |
| Jay C. Flippen | ... | Sheriff Cardigan | |
| Arthur Hunnicutt | ... | Butch Cassidy | |
| Bruce Cabot | ... | Sheriff Maledon | |
| Burt Mustin | ... | Accuser | |
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Paul Gilbert | ... | Train Messenger |
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Storyline
Cat(herine) Ballou's family farm is being threatened by the Rail Road. She sends for Kid Shelleen, finding him to be the drunkest gunfighter in the west. When her father is killed by the rail road magnate's gunman, she vows to fight on. Shelleen manages to ride sideways in several scenes, while minstrels sing the ballad of Cat Ballou in between scenes. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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Cat Ballou Is All A Ball! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
24 June 1965 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Cat Ballou - Hängen sollst du in Wyoming See more »Filming Locations:
Buckskin Joe Frontier Town & Railway - 1193 Fremont County Road 3A, Canon City, Colorado, USA See more »Edit
Box Office
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$20,666,667Company Credits
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MonoColor:
Color (Eastman Color)Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Professor Sam The Shade, The Sunrise Kid: [singing] Well now friends just lend an ear for you're now about to hear the Ballad of Cat Ballou.
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(uncredited)
Written by Robert Lowry
Sung by the Townsfolk
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Trivia
Like several other Columbia releases of the 1960s (i.e., Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Strait-Jacket (1964)), this film includes a spoof of the studio logo, in this case the lady with the torch doffing her robes in animation and turning into a cartoon cowgirl. See more »Goofs
The level of whiskey in Kid Shelleen's bottle both falls and rises as he drinks during the target practice scene. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Professor Sam The Shade, The Sunrise Kid: [singing] Well now friends just lend an ear for you're now about to hear the Ballad of Cat Ballou.
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Crazy Credits
The opening Columbia logo is followed by the first verse of the "Cat Ballou" song, sung by Nat 'King' Cole and Stubby Kaye, complete with scenes of the town. We then see go to the opening credits. See more »Soundtracks
Shall We Gather at the River?(uncredited)
Written by Robert Lowry
Sung by the Townsfolk
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Jane Fonda plays Cat Ballou, back in the days when she was not only acting but also accepting sexy kittenish roles, a rancher's daughter out to avenge the murder of said rancher by the bad guys who run the town. Yep, it's a sex Western, one that gives us the one-of-a-kind performances of Fonda and of Lee Marvin, who has two roles - an alcoholic gunslinger who's supposed to be Cat's saving and a mean, dastardly hit man with a prosthetic nose - and who won himself an Oscar for his delightful work. But it's not just the lighthearted performances of the actors that floats this film, it's also the riveting, uproarious script. The pace is never dull - there are some Westerns that'll slow things down to kind of add mood to a story, but not this one. This would make a nice double-bill with another of Fonda's sexy early roles, "Barbarella."