Comedy western starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin. Schoolteacher Catherine Ballou returns home to find her father's life under threat from developers who want his ranch land. To protect him, Catherine assembles a motley bunch of outlaws including Kid Shelleen, an ageing gunfighter with a fondness for alcohol.
In this entertaining comedy western, Jane Fonda's schoolteacher hires a gunman to avenge her murdered father. The man she winds up with is Kid Shelleen, a long-haired, buckskinned gunfighter played by Lee Marvin, who wakes up sozzled and gets worse by the minute. Even his horse is a drunkard, leaning against a barn for support. This showpiece role won an Oscar for Marvin, who also plays straight man to himself as Shelleen's psychopathic adversary, a killer with a silver nose. Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye string along for a singalong in what is an amiable and literally hit-and-miss affair that paved the way for such films as Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Cat Ballou | Jane Fonda |
| Kid Shelleen / Tim Strawn | Lee Marvin |
| Clay Boone | Michael Callan |
| Jed | Dwayne Hickman |
| Jackson Two-Bears | Tom Nardini |
| Frankie Ballou | John Marley |
| Sir Harry Percival | Reginald Denny |
| Sheriff Cardigan | Jay C Flippen |
| Butch Cassidy | Arthur Hunnicutt |
| Sheriff Maledon | Bruce Cabot |
| Shouter | Nat King Cole |
| Shouter | Stubby Kaye |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Elliot Silverstein |
