Cat Ballou


Cat Ballou is a 1965 comedy Western film, the story of a woman who hires a notorious gunman to protect her fathers ranch, and later to avenge his murder, but finds that the gunman is not what she expected. The movie stars Jane Fonda in the title role, with Lee Marvin, who won an Oscar for his dual role, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, and singers Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye, who together perform the movies theme song.

Catherine Ballou Jane Fonda, who wants to be a schoolteacher, is returning home by train to Wolf City, Wyoming, to the ranch of her father, Frankie Ballou John Marley. On the way, she unwittingly helps accused cattle rustler Clay Boone Michael Callan elude his captor, Sheriff Maledon Bruce Cabot, when Boones Uncle Jed Dwayne Hickman, a drunkard disguised as a preacher, distracts the lawman.At the ranch, she learns that the Wolf City Development Corporation is scheming to take the ranch from her father, whose sole defender is his ranch hand, an educated Native American, Jackson TwoBears Tom Nardini. Clay and Jed appear and reluctantly offer to help Catherine, and she hires legendary gunfighter Kid Shelleen Lee Marvin to help protect her father from gunslinger Tim Strawn also played by Lee Marvin, the hired killer who is threatening him. ........

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