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Title: Cat Ballou (1965)
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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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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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EnglishRelease Date:
24 June 1965 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Balladen om Cat Ballou See more »Filming Locations:
Buckskin Joe Frontier Town & Railway - 1193 Fremont County Road 3A, Canon City, Colorado, USA See more »Edit
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$20,666,667Company Credits
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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 Augustus Montague Toplady
Sung by the Townsfolk
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Lee Marvin's Oscar winning performance in this film is his only Academy Award nomination. See more »Goofs
When Catherine is on the train at the beginning, she addresses her teacher as "Mrs. Parker", but when talking to Jed a minute later she refers to her as "Miss Parker". 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 the Shouters Nat 'King' Cole and Stubby Kaye as a prologue. See more »Soundtracks
Rock of Ages(uncredited)
Written by Augustus Montague Toplady
Sung by the Townsfolk
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This HAS to be one of Jane Fonda's favorite movies: she gets to be both shy naive ingenue and rip roaring Western leader of an outlaw gang. Her outlawing is beautifully justified as the evil town members plot to take over her father's spread and finally have him killed. All are in on the plot/take, including the sheriff, a ne'er do well planted in the job. There are many similarities to 'Silverado', an equally well acted ensemble tour de force. Whoever did Lee Marvin's drunken riding, mostly out of the saddle, close to the ground, did a superior riding job. And if it was Lee himself, more credit to him. He got the Oscar and justifiably so. Under the comedy was the message concerning the sheep-like behavior of 'respectable, middle-class people', the wicked townfolk, bankrolled by the Wolf Company (love these names). Katherine Ballou, the respectable lovely schoolmistress, goes bad as the 'nice' people show themselves to be worse than the outlaws. Hole-in-the-Wall outlaws are allowed to live there undisturbed because the scion of the Wolfe company (who is responsible for having Jane's father shot and whom Jane shoots) lets them alone. They existed safely 'under the radar', but they want to put Jane et al out, because her gang's actions make them visible. Reminds me of many Massachusetts politicians, as well as Whitey Bulger.
The 'Indian's' comments are hilarious, expecially about Custer, spoken as he is surrounded by neatly dressed town thugs. It's an up-to-date funny tale with a social morale. You get the lesson without the moralizing. I loved it, and so glad I bought it.