Roughshod (1949)
3/10
A very, very special after-school special
5 November 2023
If it's 1949, I'm back from the war, and my best girl put on a bunch of weight after popping out three kids, this would be a decent way to rest my sore eyes for 88 minutes. The four dames are pretty good looking.

But if a kid has more than 4 lines in a movie, it pretty much always blows. OK, there are exceptions. But it's a decent guide.

In Rougshod, little Jiminy Jarmin or whatever the kid's name is, got on my gee whiz nerves pretty early on.

And that was before Gloria Grahame started harping on Jiminy for not knowing his letters. Or on his older brother for, I dunno, being such a good-looking stud.

Ultimately this isn't a western, which usually heavily involve bad guys. This is a ch1ck flick, except for the opening scene and the climax. Years later it could have been a Rawhide episode, with Clint Eastwood playing the babysitter of the four wayward dames.
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