The Redhead from Wyoming
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #27909 in DVD
- Released on: 2003-05-06
- Rating: Unrated
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Formats: Dolby, Dubbed, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Subtitled in: English, French
- Dubbed in: Spanish
- Running time: 81 minutes
Editorial Reviews
Review
No one's ever going to claim that The Redhead from Wyoming is a great Western, but as a showcase for the startling beauty of Maureen O'Hara, it's pretty darn good. The script starts out promising, with information about the "rules" of cattle rustling in this certain time and place, indicating that there's potential for a somewhat off-beat plot. And the characters, at least when we meet them, have promise, too; neither O'Hara's nor William Bishop's immediately settle into a black vs. white, good vs. evil stereotype. Unfortunately, the screenplay doesn't go for the unique, settling for a plot that ultimately is familiar stuff. Likewise, the characters soon lose their ambiguity, leaving it pretty much up to the actors to hold our interest. O'Hara and Bishop do, she because she's so unrelentingly striking visually and because her patented feistiness is alluring and he because he simply turns in a fine performance. We have less luck with Alex Nicol, who looks good but isn't especially interesting and whose acting can't make up for that deficit. Lee Sholem's direction is fairly routine and doesn't capitalize on some opportunities in the script, but he does keep things focused on O'Hara, which is good. He also is aided by Winton Hoch's dependably expert cinematography and by some good sets and costumes. ~ Craig Butler, All Movie Guide
On the DVD
Includes original theatrical trailer
Synopsis
The title character of this western can only be one of two actresses: Maureen O'Hara or Rhonda Fleming. But Fleming apparently had something else to do, so O'Hara won the coin-toss. She plays a dance-hall gal who protects the identity of a cattle rustler--mainly because she's the same crooked business herself. Complications ensue when O'Hara falls in love with the very sheriff (Alex Nicol) who intends to bring the rustler to justice. Redhead from Wyoming was filmed in Technicolor; the producers would have been insane not to do so. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide



