The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Preston Sturges

Writers:

Earl Felton (screenplay)
Earl Felton (story)

Release Date:

27 May 1949 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance | Western

Tagline:

She had the biggest Six-Shooters in the West!

Plot:

Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter...

Plot Keywords:

Judge | Singing | Hit On The Head | Hanging | Courtroom Scene

Cast

Betty Grable	...	Winifred Jones
Cesar Romero	...	Blackie Jobero
Rudy Vallee	...	Charles Hingleman
Olga San Juan	...	Conchita
Porter Hall	...	Judge Alfalfa J. O'Toole
Hugh Herbert	...	Doctor
Al Bridge	...	Sheriff Ambrose (as Alan Bridge)
El Brendel	...	Mr. Jorgensen
Sterling Holloway	...	Basserman Boy
Dan Jackson	...	Basserman Boy (as Danny Jackson)
Emory Parnell	...	Mr. Julius Hingleman
Pati Behrs	...	Roulette

Runtime:

77 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Sweden:15

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Goofs:

Continuity: Despite being a Technicolor film, this picture contains process and insert shots which are in black-and-white. In particular, though Charles and Winifred are photographed in color on their buggy ride to the church, the background and the church exterior itself are in black-and-white.

Quotes:

Winifred Jones: Do tell. You must show me your gold mine someday.
Charles Hingleman: If you don't mind going down in a bucket.
Winifred Jones: How is that again?
Charles Hingleman: Well, you see, a gold mine having no stairs, you have to be lowered in a bucket.
Winifred Jones: Like the girl from Nantucket. Excuse me.
Charles Hingleman: How is that?
Winifred Jones: Oh, oh... just a poem.

Soundtrack:

Rock-a-Bye Baby

So-so lighthearted movie, if you like broad comedy

Have seen the movie on video only once and doubt I'd want to see it again. It's just too painfully farcical at times for my liking. As someone says, those freaky brothers are a bit much to see, that's why I wouldn't want to endure the movie again.

Bette Grable is always beautiful, no faulting there.

I rather felt Rudy Vallee got some rough treatment in this movie and didn't have not enough opportunity to shine with his usual suavity as in other films.

Glad I saw it once but that's about it. I really prefer any other Betty G. movies than this one, sorry to say. Most are super.