Here we go again. Another gang of Westerns with female leads. (Check out the first one here.) Couldn’t resist starting things out with Marie Windsor. Here’s the insert for Dakota Lil (1950) co-starring George Montgomery and directed by Lesley Selander.
Bandit Queen (1950) was a cheap Lippert picture. Aren’t they all? Barbara Britton had been in The Virginian (1946) with Joel McCrea — and both Gunfighters (1947) and Albuquerque (1948) with Randolph Scott.
Republic Pictures gave us Woman They Almost Lynched (1953), directed by Allan Dwan. Audrey Totter was a veteran of some prime 40s film noir — The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), Lady In The Lake (1947) and The Set-Up (1949).
Last, we’ve got The Buckskin Lady (1957) starring Patricia Medina from The Beast Of Hollow Mountain (1956, which we covered yesterday). Carl K. Hittleman produced and directed Gun Battle At Monterey, starring Sterling Hayden, the same year. The Buckskin Lady runs just over an hour, was shot at the Iverson Ranch, and has Hank Worden in it, putting it pretty high up on my Want List. It’s out on DVD from Alpha, but their quality’s all over the place. Anybody know what it looks like?
That, my friends, is a great poster.
Based on the poster, if they’re going to lynch Audrey Totter, they’re going to need a bigger rope.
I’d say so.
Man, I’m dying to see that movie.
Posters are amusing if not nearly accurate. For example, anyone who has not seen “The Woman They Almost Lynched” would assume from the poster that Audrey Totter was in peril. Actually it was the sweet Joan Leslie who was facing the hangman’s noose.
I got Buckskin Lady from the Great American Westerns series by Platinum. There are four movies in the DVD, including Buckskin Lady. The picture quality is acceptable.
Patricia Medina was either not worthy of ” buckskin leather ” or the movie should have been accurately named ” Denim jeans Lady “.
Patricia Medina looks like Connie Francis