cat ballou

the poster

filem tahun 1965 yang ditonton ketika kecil dulu. seronok ditonton bersama sepupu sepapah saya. kini bila di cerita kembali akan filem ini bersama sepupu sepapah saya pasti tertawa. dialogue kegemaran di ulang ulang. lagu di nyanyi di siul bersama. ada saja yang di selitkan dalam percakapan. tapi jokenya hanya kami yang tahu. watak menjadi kegemaran ialah watak kid shelleen yang di lakonkan oleh lee marvin. filem ini mengisahkan (cut & paste):

Catherine Ballou (Fonda), an aspiring schoolteacher, is traveling by train to Wolf City, Wyoming, to visit her rancher father, Frankie Ballou (Marley). En route she unwittingly helps accused cattle rustler Clay Boone (Callan) elude his captor, the sheriff, when Boone's Uncle Jed (Hickman), a drunkard disguised as a preacher, distracts the lawman. She reaches the ranch to find that the Wolf City Development Corporation is trying to take the ranch away from her father, whose only defender is an educated Indian, Jackson Two-Bears (Nardini). Clay and Jed appear and reluctantly offer to help Catherine. She also hires legendary gunfighter Kid Shelleen (Marvin) to come and help protect her father from fast-drawing Tim Strawn (also Marvin), alias Silvernose, the hired killer who is threatening Frankie. Shelleen arrives, a drunken stumblebum who is literally unable to hit the side of a barn when he shoots and whose pants fall down when he draws his gun. Strawn kills Frankie, but the townspeople refuse to bring him to justice, and Catherine becomes a revenge-seeking outlaw known as Cat Ballou. She and her four associates rob a train carrying the Wolf City payroll, and Shelleen, inspired by his love for Cat (unrequited because she loves Clay), shapes up and kills Strawn. Later he casually admits that Strawn was his brother. Cat poses as a prostitute and confronts town boss Sir Harry Percival, owner of the Wolf City Development Corporation. A struggle ensues; Sir Harry is killed; and Cat is sentenced to be hanged on the gallows. Just after the noose is placed around her neck, Uncle Jed (again as a fake preacher) cuts the rope as she falls through the trapdoor. Her gang then spirits her away in a daring rescue.

Cast
Jane Fonda as Cat Ballou
Lee Marvin as Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn
Michael Callan as Clay Boone
Dwayne Hickman as Jed
Nat King Cole as The Sunrise Kid
Stubby Kaye as Professor Sam the Shade