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La giovane Catherine tornata dal college, subisce la perdita del padre, ucciso da un killer al soldo di concorrenti finanziari. Decisa a vendicarlo, si trasforma in capo di una piccola banda... Leggi tuttoLa giovane Catherine tornata dal college, subisce la perdita del padre, ucciso da un killer al soldo di concorrenti finanziari. Decisa a vendicarlo, si trasforma in capo di una piccola banda di fuorilegge.La giovane Catherine tornata dal college, subisce la perdita del padre, ucciso da un killer al soldo di concorrenti finanziari. Decisa a vendicarlo, si trasforma in capo di una piccola banda di fuorilegge.
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- Sceneggiatura
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- Vincitore di 1 Oscar
- 10 vittorie e 15 candidature totali
Nat 'King' Cole
- Shouter
- (as Nat King Cole)
Herman Boden
- Townsman
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Gail Bonney
- Mabel Bentley
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Jimmie Booth
- Townsman
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Patrick Campbell
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Recensioni in evidenza
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."
Like beautiful women (as well as wine) CAT BALLOU has grown so much better with age.
Jane Fonda "glows" with not only sex appeal, but with acting genius. She plays it straight as her director instructed...while Callan and Hickman play it "over the top." What a point...and counterpoint.
What a movie.
Lee Marvin (AND HIS HORSE) may have stolen this film, but what remains is what real movies are really about. And what is missing today.
And the music? Well, Frank DeVol (as others back then) knew what importance music makes to EVERY great movie.
What's wrong with today's box office? Today's movies don't even have a clue as to why CAT BALLOU was a good film. It's the same as why today people don't know how the pyramids were really built.
I have heard that nobody wanted to make this movie, so it flew under the radar and got made just as the director and writers wanted. Hurray! The director knew how to get his movie right...and he did...and we are all so much better for it.
Find CAT BALLOU and show it to your children and grandkids every year.
They will love you for it!
Jane Fonda "glows" with not only sex appeal, but with acting genius. She plays it straight as her director instructed...while Callan and Hickman play it "over the top." What a point...and counterpoint.
What a movie.
Lee Marvin (AND HIS HORSE) may have stolen this film, but what remains is what real movies are really about. And what is missing today.
And the music? Well, Frank DeVol (as others back then) knew what importance music makes to EVERY great movie.
What's wrong with today's box office? Today's movies don't even have a clue as to why CAT BALLOU was a good film. It's the same as why today people don't know how the pyramids were really built.
I have heard that nobody wanted to make this movie, so it flew under the radar and got made just as the director and writers wanted. Hurray! The director knew how to get his movie right...and he did...and we are all so much better for it.
Find CAT BALLOU and show it to your children and grandkids every year.
They will love you for it!
Quite a number of reviews of Cat Ballou seem centered on the theme "It didn't make me laugh" or "Lee Marvin didn't deserve Best Actor". Okay, deal with it. My dad took the whole family to the opening of Cat Ballou in a big midwestern town back in the day. We all thought it was funny, we knew it was a comedy, however the audience was not roaring with riotous laughter. That is sometimes a good sign that you are watching a satire. There was plenty of silliness and slapstick as well, and some real wild west weirdness (the sterling silver nose that Kid Strawn wears, etc.) Funny how the opening song stayed with me from 1965 on, although I don't believe I have ever seen the film from the beginning since that first time.
It's a hangin' day in Wolf City Wyomin' Wolf City Wyomin' She killed a man it's tru-ue, And that's a why their hangin' Hangin' Cat Ballou,
This oddball flick seemed to really say something about our view of the western film, and I think that is the one of the points that helped it win some awards.
It's a hangin' day in Wolf City Wyomin' Wolf City Wyomin' She killed a man it's tru-ue, And that's a why their hangin' Hangin' Cat Ballou,
This oddball flick seemed to really say something about our view of the western film, and I think that is the one of the points that helped it win some awards.
A good and nice movie concerning a school teacher named Cat Ballou (Jane Fonda) , when the family farm is being threatened by the railroad she becomes a bandit to avenge her father's (John Marley) death , creating an outlaw group formed by a motley and butcher team ( Michael Callan , Tom Nardini and others) . Later on , she engages a boozy gunfighter (wonderfully interpreted by Lee Marvin) and they 'll take on a number of villains and other nasties (led by Reginald Denny) that have a hired gun , a murderer with an artificial nose ( also played by Marvin). A gen-u-ine movie first! A way-out whopper! A funny movie? You bet it is...! It's That Way-Out Whopper Of A Funny Western...A She-Bang To End All She-Bangs! . Cat Ballou Is All A Ball! .Is this the way to make a funny movie...? You bet it is!
It's a bemusing western with adjusted runtime in which there's humor , tongue-in-cheek , spoof , irony , shootouts , it's fast-moving and that's why isn't boring but funny . Lee Marvin won a deserved Oscar Academy Award for his double playing as a drunken , sympathetic cowboy and his twin , an odious , ominous killer , as Marvin is the best . The support cast is awesome , thus appearing habitual Western secondaries : J. C. Flippen , Arthur Hunnicut and Bruce Cabot . While Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye play splendidly two singing minstrels . Frank de Vol (Robert Aldrich's usual musician) soundtrack is jolly and lively .The film was well directed by Elliot Silverstein , he will subsequently achieve great success with ¨A man called horse¨. Rating : Better than average. Well worth seeing. . Essential and indispensable watching for Lee Marvin and Jane Fonda fans.
It's a bemusing western with adjusted runtime in which there's humor , tongue-in-cheek , spoof , irony , shootouts , it's fast-moving and that's why isn't boring but funny . Lee Marvin won a deserved Oscar Academy Award for his double playing as a drunken , sympathetic cowboy and his twin , an odious , ominous killer , as Marvin is the best . The support cast is awesome , thus appearing habitual Western secondaries : J. C. Flippen , Arthur Hunnicut and Bruce Cabot . While Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye play splendidly two singing minstrels . Frank de Vol (Robert Aldrich's usual musician) soundtrack is jolly and lively .The film was well directed by Elliot Silverstein , he will subsequently achieve great success with ¨A man called horse¨. Rating : Better than average. Well worth seeing. . Essential and indispensable watching for Lee Marvin and Jane Fonda fans.
In the most lighthearted roles of their careers, Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda (Klute, Coming Home) and Lee Marvin (winner of the Best Actor Oscar for this performance) shine as the title character, a virtuous young schoolmarm who sets out to avenge the death of her father Frankie (played by John Marley), and as drunken sharpshooter Kid Shelleen, who agrees to help the young woman go after the killer(s). Along for the ride are Clay Boone (Michael Callan), a handsome young felon who is sheltered by Cat and falls in love with her; Jed (Dwayne Hickman), Clay's Bible-thumping uncle, and Jackson Two-Bears (Tom Nardini, who is hilarious), the Ballou's hired hand who philosophically comments on the treatment of Native Americans. Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye are enjoyable as troubadours who sing the plot of the movie as it moves along. Fonda never looked more beautiful, Marvin is a hoot (as Shelleen and his twin brother, the silver-nosed Tim Strawn), and the screenplay (by Walter Newman, Frank R. Pierson and Roy Chanslor, from his novel) is remarkable. Memorable scenes include the opening train sequence, the brawl at the square dance, the showdown between Cat and Sir Percival (played by character actor Reginald Denny) and the conclusion at the gallows. Delightful from start to finish! ***1/2 out of ****
Lo sapevi?
- QuizNat 'King' Cole had a nightly singing engagement at a Lake Tahoe nightclub. He would commute daily between Lake Tahoe and the set in order to do both. Everyone noticed that Cole was coughing a great deal whenever he was on the set and losing weight, but most figured he was just running himself down with such a gruelling schedule. Unbeknownst to them and to Cole himself, he was already very sick with lung cancer.
- BlooperWhen the "runaway" beer wagon topples over, a cable can be seen running from the top of its "Brennan's Brewery" sign to the left foreground, pulling the wagon over.
- Citazioni
Cat Ballou: Some gang! An Indian ranch hand, a drunken gunfighter, a sex maniac, and an uncle!
- Curiosità sui creditiThe Torch Lady in the Columbia Pictures logo changes her gown to Cat Ballou's cowboy outfit and fires her guns several times.
- ConnessioniEdited into Arancia meccanica (1971)
- Colonne sonoreThe Ballad of Cat Ballou
(uncredited)
Written by Mack David and Jerry Livingston
Performed by Stubby Kaye & Nat 'King' Cole
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