(The Marshal's Daughter)

Content: To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass named Laurie Anders, was in 1953 a popular TV personality. A regular on The Ken Murray Show, Anders had risen to fame with the Southern-fried catchphrase "Ah love the wi-i-i-ide open spaces!" Striking while the iron was hot, the entrepreneurial Murray produced this inexpensive oater, which cast Anders as Laurie Dawson, the singing daughter of a U.S. marshal (Hoot Gibson). Teaming with her dad to capture outlaw Trigger Gans (Bob Duncan), Laurie briefly disguises herself as a masked bandit. Amidst much stock footage from earlier westerns and a plethora of lame jokes and dreadful puns, The Marshal's Daughter is a treat for trivia buffs, featuring such virile actors as Preston S. Foster, Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Buddy Baer as "themselves."

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Western

Runtime:

71 minutes

Year:

1953

Directors:

William Berke

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Production companies:

United Artists,

Harris/Murray

Actors:

Laurie Dawson

Marshal Ben Dawson

'Smiling Billy' Murray

Preston Foster - Poker-Game Player

Johnny Mack Brown - Poker-Game Player

Crews:

Director

Screenplay