Mitchum loved Westerns and played side parts in a dozen or more of them, many with Willam Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy stock cast, before he was elevated to B film star with "Nevada" in 1944. He's still learning how to master a set here but he's active and his confidence is growing fast and you can see the greatness to come.
Barbara Stanwyck & Jean Arthur had been dressing in Western garb long before this movie, in the '20s & '30s, but they generally played Western women who all wore those kinds of clothes on the range anyway. There's some light humor when Hale dresses like that since in this role, she is from Chicago and accustomed to wearing finery. She doesn't back away from a fight, and neither does her super-rich father, played by Thurston Hall. Hall started in films in 1915 and really knew his way around a set.
Mostly forgotten movie, this one is a lot of fun!
Barbara Stanwyck & Jean Arthur had been dressing in Western garb long before this movie, in the '20s & '30s, but they generally played Western women who all wore those kinds of clothes on the range anyway. There's some light humor when Hale dresses like that since in this role, she is from Chicago and accustomed to wearing finery. She doesn't back away from a fight, and neither does her super-rich father, played by Thurston Hall. Hall started in films in 1915 and really knew his way around a set.
Mostly forgotten movie, this one is a lot of fun!