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Thursday, July 17, 2014

The Singing Cowgirl (1938)

An American Western directed by Samuel Diege, starring Dorothy Page.
Bad cowboys are up to their standard mischief and a singing cowgirl, new cowboy in town and a boy team up to set things right.
Urban Dictionary says "you can't polish a turd" and they are right, but the makers of this film tried to do just that. The style, sets and pacing were for a good western. They used decent camera operators to shoot shitty acting and edited it together rather poorly, in my opinion. Apparently, Dorothy Page was billed as THE singing cowgirl and proposals were made for a bunch of films like this. Wikipedia says that it's the female lead that didn't go over quite so well, but I think it's the content in general. More specifically, her pants were the wrong size. It looked like she was wearing samurai trousers because they were so big. We can't see shapely curves through pants like that! If they had earned some female anatomy points with the singing cowgirl's costume, this would have been a much better film. For having easily spotted errors that should have been fixed, I rate it poor.

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