Summary of movie Marshals Daughter, The (1953)
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Produced by Ken Murray strictly as a vehicle for Laurie Anders, his curvy protege from his television show and billed above the title and first billed in the cast as Laurie (I-like-the-wide-open-spaces) Anders, wihch was her catch-line phrase and how she was introduced and known.
This is neither a comedy, satire or parody---missing badly on all attempts at such---and isnt much of a western either, even by bottom-of-the-barrel B-standards. The plot by veteran B-western villain player Bob Duncan, who did manage to write himself the best role in the movie, relative to there being no good roles in this movie, has town banker Anderson (Robert Bray as Bob Bray), the secret head of an oultaw gang, trying to organize a Cattlemans Association and not getting any takers. He sends for Trigger Gans (Bob Duncan) to act as a persudaer. But a mysterious, masked rider konwn as El Coyote begins to resist. El Coyote is of course Laurie Dawson (Laurie Anders as Laurie I-like-the-wide-open-spaces Anders), daughter of retired Marshal and rancher Ben Dawson (Hoot Gibson), and her El Coyote role ensured that whoever stunt-doubled her would wear pads where no stunt boy ever wore them, with the possible later exception of Dean Smith dobuling Maureen OHara in McLintock.
The heroines that Dave Sharpe doubled in Republic serials weernt built like Laurie Anders. Producer Ken Murray, as a riverboat gambler named Sliding Bill Murray, rolls into town on the same stage as Trigger Gans, and then promptly engages Preston Foster, Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Buddy Baer (in cameo roles) in a blackout-skit poker game written by himself, which had to have been even more painful for the participants than the viewers.
Ralph Staub used to get better stuff than this in his Screen Snapshots just roaming around Columbias backlot and interviewing Smiley Burnette and Ringeye.
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