"Oh, you beautiful dope!"
Actress Crystal Wayne (Mary Beth Hughes), a complete bitch, is softened when she falls in love with a hopeful new cowboy star, Lank Garrett (George Montgomery), which is just as well because Garrett proves to be a hopeless actor except when he's doing love scenes with Crystal. The couple have a series of dumb misunderstandings throughout the 64 minute movie, which seems three hours long. Alan Mowbray plays Crystal's liaison in the studio. Minerva Urecal shows up for a minute or two. It's hard to believe this dog was actually released by 20th Century-Fox, as it looks like nothing so much as a poverty row item with an undistinguished cast. Hughes is at least somewhat vivid as Crystal; Montgomery has some charm but little else. This "comedy" has not got one single real laugh in it.
Verdict: 64 minutes long and only one half-hearted chuckle! *.
I need to see more Westerns. I grew up not liking them but I think I would change my mind if I gave them a chance...
ReplyDeleteI was late to the western genre myself. Saw lots of western TV shows when I was a kid because my family watched them and back then every other show was a western, but I never really cared for western fare that much. Then I started looking at some well-regarded western films -- not to mention Roy Rogers (but that's a whole other story, LOL) - and find that I like and genuinely enjoy many of them. The best westerns --such as Willie Wyler's "Big Country" -- transcend genre in any case.
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