The Buckskin Lady (1957)
1957 · Feature film · 65 min · dir. Carl K. Hittleman
The Hell-Hot Story Of A Hell-Bent Dancehall Dame Who Climbed To The Top ...Bullet By Bullet ...Man By Man!
- Western
Synopsis
Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to align herself with outlaw Slinger. But Angela has never gotten over her love for honest frontier doctor Bruce Merritt, and at the first opportunity she redeems herself by catching a bullet intended for the doc. Henry Hull delivers the film's most memorable performance as Angela's drunken wretch of a father. Per the title, Buckskin Lady affords the…
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Details
- Director
- Carl K. Hittleman
- Writer
- David Lang
- Composer
- Albert Glasser
- Cinematography
- Ellsworth Fredericks
- Studio
- United Artists, Bishop-Hittleman Pictures Inc.
- Released
- 1957-07-01
- Running time
- 65 minutes
Cast & crew
Carl K. Hittleman Director
Patricia Medina
Richard Denning
Gerald Mohr
Henry Hull
Hank Worden
Dorothy Adams
Byron Foulger
Frank Sully
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · Too Tame To Be Adult · bobsluckycat · 2010-10-24
While this western tries to be like it's TV counter-parts of the time (1957) and a few other semi-adult westerns of the day as well, it fails on all counts. Patricia Medina, Gerald Mohr, and Richard Denning had all been in better films. Why they decided to do this one is anybody's guess. Cssting as a whole is strange. Some good character players and familiar ones as well mixed in with non-actors and others. It's hard to tell who is working and who is just trying to make a buck here. Production values are also not very good. Story is just the worst dreck. United Artists distributed this mainly…
