Word: ballou
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BALLOU. Wild western heroics are trampled into horselaughs by Jane Fonda as a schoolmarm turned outlaw queen and Lee Marvin, doubly hilarious as a couple of no-good gunfighters, one her friend...
...BALLOU. Lawlessness and disorder abound in this wickedly funny western about a pistol-packing schoolmarm (Jane Fonda) and the company she keeps. The best of the company is supplied by Lee Marvin, memorably double-cast as a couple of gunslingers-for-hire...
...which he satirizes the types he normally plays. In the forthcoming Ship of Fools, he is a whoring, has-been ballplayer, turns in one stunning, tragicomic scene in which he drunkenly explains the torture of being unable to hit a curve ball. And in the just-released Cat Ballou, he does a double parody, first as the silver-nosed gun fighter and then as a wildly comic former gunman so booze-ridden he can barely ride. Either way, he seems sure of a supporting-actor Oscar nomination...
...Ballou. Silkenly coiffed and carefully educated, the provocative young schoolmarm boards a train headed west to Wolf City, Wyo. To ward off thieves, gamblers and rapscallions, she seats herself across from a Bible-clutching man of the cloth. "I'm Catherine Ballou," she offers demurely...
...Bruin's best chance for a breakthrough in the field events appears to be in the javelin, where Dick Ballou, who recorded a 181 ft., 2 in. heave last week, will challenge Tom Holcombe for first place...