a5c7b9f00b Ann Shelby, whose family is allied with the notorious William Quantrill, turns outlaw to revenge herself on a renegade Indian who killed her brother. Jean Shelby, a member of a family of Confederate sympathizers in Missouri during the Civil War, has been providing information about the Union Army to Confederate Raiders. So the Union is trying to capture the Shelby family, with the help of an outcast Indian who has his own grudge against the Shelbys. When Jean and a Yankee captain fall in love, their plans and loyalties are tested. This movie sounded amusing, so I tried to watch it (very) early this morning.<br/><br/>The dialogue is wooden and stilted beyond description, and not just a line here and there, but whole scenes! The plot is no better. None of the characters are sympathetic; the heroine scowls from scene to scene, half the males in the movie seem infatuated with her for unknown reasons, but of course, the only one she shows interest in is the one who ignores her during her months-long convalescence–failing to visit as promised until a few minutes after she leaves the home where she has been nursed back to health.<br/><br/>Had I been more wakeful, it might have been a jolly experience. As it was, I fell asleep, and when I woke up, a Montel infomercial was running. Alas, I missed the ending–but I did not much care.<br/><br/>I don't think anything was cut out of it. I suspect this is just a movie that just didn't come out the way someone must have imagined it. This is not really a western as much as it's a showcase for it's star, pretty Ann Savage, who does a credible job of acting.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, she's the only real reason to watch this film.<br/><br/>I knew this was a cheesy movie as soon as the renegade Indian threw his knife into her brother Bob's body, thereby killing him, and the knife just disappeared from sight. Jeez, a disappearing knife! <br/><br/>Later, for whatever reason, the rebels start shooting one another, but the director shot the entire scene by focusing on their heads! Yeah, how weird is that? I guess that everyone died of fright, since no one obviously took a bullet. What kind of western is this, I thought? Even during the early days of westerns, the old programers showed people get shot or stabbed…and this film was made in 1946!!!! <br/><br/>Then, our heroine stumbles into the woods, and faints under a tree….and stays there all night!!! What a renegade! <br/><br/>The ending is just as truncated, and woundless, as the rest of the film….and extremely melodramatic. <br/><br/>I was glad when it was over. I wasted a lot of my precious time watching this drivel. Don't you.
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