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(1955)

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9/10
Incredibly funny and unique.
planktonrules27 September 2014
This film is set in the old west. It begins with Mr. Kelly (George Montgomery) talking with the bartender about making an order. This is because Kelly is a salesman for a liquor distributor back east. As he's talking, a telegram arrives for Kelly but a nosy waitress (Gloria Talbot) intercepts it and reads it. It talks about how all the girls miss him--and she assumes it means that he's a real he-stud. Instead, the letter is actually from Kelly's wife--and it's talking about how his eight daughters miss him! Well, after the waitress shows the note to another waitress (Karen Steele), BOTH are infatuated with the handsome stranger. And, through the course of the show, both keeps paying the poor guy LOTS of attention...too much attention. He can't even enjoy a good meal because they won't leave him alone. But what's worse is that the ladies BOTH have jealous boyfriends. The first (Alan Hale Jr.) wants to break Kelly's neck. Fortunately, Kelly is an excellent fighter. But the second is handy with a gun and so Kelly has to use his brain to extricate himself from this mess he didn't even help to create!

The show is very, very funny. It makes fun of westerns and is an interesting case of reverse sexual harassment. You just have to feel sorry for the guy! Well worth seeing and lots of laughs.
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6/10
Guilty of nothing but good looks.
mark.waltz3 March 2016
Warning: Spoilers
"You and me have a meeting at Knuckle Junction!" So says future skipper Alan Hale Jr. to handsome George Montgomery, a liquor salesman besieged by three lonely ladies who are tired of the grizzled and the gut. He's simply trying to do his business and get out of town, but the ladies just won't leave him alone. This has all the men furious and the women coming to his defense, and the audience gets to see his innocence while nobody else does. Montgomery plays the beautiful bit befuddled hero who is frustrated by all the attention. It just gets sillier and sillier as he keeps getting in deeper. Truly a unique western comedy with B western star Montgomery absolutely charming, proving that sometimes can be a detriment. Gloria Talbott, Eve McVegh and Karen Steele are lovely yet appropriately pesky as the three flirts who would certainly give "Oklahoma's" Ado Annie a run for their money in their inability to say no. Montgomery gets a great final moment.
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