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Six-gun sirens who shoot to thrill!
A old west town run by women. All the town's business is controlled by a woman gambler who tries not to succumb to the allure of a handsome and persistent cowboy.
Outlaw Women
1952 Directed by Ron Ormond, Sam Newfield
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28 Apr 1952
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I'm always intrigued by some of these almost forgotten little production companies that churned out B-movies in the years after the second world war, springing up to challenge the Hollywood elite. Outlaw Women came from Howco Productions, set up by cinema owners J Francis White, Joy Newton Houck Snr, and producer/director Ron Ormond, with the intention of showing double features. It was purely a business decision, and this was their first film, directed by Ormond and Sam Newfield. I'd love to say it was good, but unfortunately despite a decent premise, the script here could have done with the same plumping up as Marie Windsor's cleavage got here.
Outlaw Women features a town run solely by women, from the saloon…
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There are any number of issues with Outlaw Women, most of them the ones you'd expect, rooted in knee-jerk misogyny and a lazy screenplay torpedoing a movie that, every once in a while, looked like it could have been unusual and entertaining.
For example: at one point, someone gives Iron Mae (the main character, played by Marie Windsor) the usual stern talking to, about how she's teaching everyone to hate women because some man once did her wrong, except, like, NONE of that his happening? No one is being taught to hate men (apart from the one lesbian, all the other women seem pretty into men, tbh), and she doesn't either hate men or not trust them, unless they're particularly,…
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Easy to see why this one’s faded into obscurity. Pretty lazy script. I thought it was gonna be an interesting celebration of female archetypes in a Western.
The opening monologue was the best part.
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Gals run the town! Made for a cool variation of the B-western, but naturally you can't have the wild west without the macho element, and they invade. Probable doesn't get enough out of the angle, which is not surprising since it's Sam Newfield at the handle, but with Marie Windsor being the face of Outlaw Women (1952), I was more than dazzled with this.
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Wretched garbage. Like many similar B's and dime store comics of the era, it teases something different but delivers the patriarchal status quo at every turn instead. Painfully unfunny gags, miserable writing, flat shooting and cutting. The film also isn't violent enough to satisfy its premise. The main Las Mujeres gunfighter (Carla Balenda) is treated as a joke who is easily overpowered or belittled and humored from the first second she draws a gun.
Marie Windsor as Iron Mae is mildly diverting. There is one entertaining fight between two women that is more violent than expected. One memorably grotesque barbershop quartet. And one visibly lesbian character; Maria Hart playing essentially a walking sight gag, but at least she's there. Otherwise, a complete waste of time. -
not really in a headspace to dissect gender roles + am a little split on the meaning of that ending.......its sitting between couples therapy material/tradwife posting and Howard Hawks, otherwise this is a gorgeous and tuneful comedy western. My mind got melted by the butch lesbian who strikes a match with her teeth and then lights a cigar before blowing smoke into the camera.
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Sam Newfield and Ron Ormond goes woke with their western about a town where men aren’t allowed.
It’s a fun B western with a hook, a lot of humor, a cool gun trick and a big, exciting climatic gunfight.
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It does have some genuinely funny and good moments. Some decent western shoutouts and stand-offs. It touches on plenty of themes, even if briefly for some, such as Law and order (ending the reign of women in Las Mujeres); gender roles and their place in society and politics; and Innovation of gunfighting — staying behind if not going with the flow of times and technological innovation (the holster that makes drawing a weapon obsolete). Cast does a good job and this western comedy does not hold back on the comedy and irony of the characters, situations and settings. Overall a decent watch but bear in mind it isn’t the most entertaining despite the short runtime.
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Sam Newfield and Ron Ormond’s western is set in the town of Las Mujeres, where a betting queen (Marie Windsor) and her partners are in charge until a US marshal arrives in town.
Set in a town where men might not enter, the area is controlled by a woman bettor (Marie Windsor) who ultimately surrenders to the attraction of a good-looking and tenacious cowboy.
Marie Windsor gives a good performance in her role as Iron Mae McLeod, the gambling queen who is in charge of Las Mujeres, but everything changes when a cowboy enters the scene, with Iron unable to help herself but to have feelings for him.
Elsewhere, there is a fine performance to be had from Richard Rober…
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Watch the better and more interesting Woman They Almost Lynched instead.
Outlaw Women is mostly unessential garbage about a town run by "nothin' but women" but interrogated in such bad faith, the usual what-if that cannot envision women without patriarchy, only their inversion of, an ill-at-ease "well, if I'm not jabbing at someone with this patriarchy, won't they be jabbing at me with it?" No feminism here then, just the retrograde "fun ordering a man around for a change," a bid to "beat the men at their own game." I don't think I expected much in the way of an interrogation of the dynamics here, but the super unexplored premise is also beyond tame--exploitation for people who think dancing is…
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Last of Ron Ormond's westerns before he started making straight up exploitation movies. Somewhat ridiculous of course, but I still like seeing a women flipping some asshole over her back. Especially in 1952.