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Actors: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Cat Ballou |
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This is a humorous tale narrated by Nat King Cole and Stubby Kay of how a sweet school teacher fresh out of college is transformed into a depraved train robber and killer. Cat Ballou's innocence is shattered forever when
she comes home from college to find that the town, in league with a corrupt businessman, hires a gunslinger to kill her father so they can steal his water rights and build a slaughterhouse. Cat enlists the help of two
cattle rustlers and an indian and hires Kid Shaleen, a famous gunslinger she reads about in dime novels. Kid Shaleen turns out to be an alcoholic washed-up has-been and is alseep on the job when her father is gunned down
by the gunslinger. Bent on revenge, Cat decides to bring the town to ruin. But being completely inexperienced in the ways of train robbing and killing, she's really got her work cut out for her.
--sayruh, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Cat Ballou |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Western
Yes
Kind of western:
- fighting bad business/family
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- teacher/professor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, wavy (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- average build (man)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- businessman, big
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- average (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
Misc setting
- moving train
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
How many deaths in film?
- 2
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Country/Western
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