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Cat Ballou
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Cat Ballou is a 1965 American film directed by Elliot Silverstein and produced by Harold Hecht, with a screenplay by Walter Newman and Frank Pierson. It is a musical comedy Western with capital punishment as its main subject, set in Wyoming. The cast includes Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan and Dwayne Hickman, with a score by Frank De Vol, editing by Charles Nelson, and cinematography by Jack A. Marta; Malcolm Brown was its production designer. Columbia Pictures produced and distributed the film, also released through Netflix, video on demand and DVD, with a runtime of 97 minutes. It received the Academy Award for Best Actor and was also nominated for Best Film Editing and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
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Film · TMDB
6.4A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
Cast
- Jane Fonda as Catherine 'Cat' Ballou
- Michael Callan as Clay Boone
- Lee Marvin as Kid Shelleen / Tim Strawn
- Dwayne Hickman as Jed
- Tom Nardini as Jackson Two-Bears
- John Marley as Frankie Ballou
Themes
- daughter
- gunslinger
- wyoming, usa
- based on novel or book
- ranch
- alcoholic
- train robbery
- fratricide
- saved from hanging
- female outlaw
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- Western film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- capital punishment
- Director
- Elliot Silverstein
- Screenwriter
- Frank Pierson
- Composer
- Frank De Vol
- Producer
- Harold Hecht
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Jack A. Marta
- Narrative location
- Wyoming
- Duration
- 95
- FilmAffinity ID
- 534061
- Distribution format
- DVD
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- publication date
- 1965-01-01
- film editor
- Charles Nelson
- title
- Cat Ballou
- distributed by
- Netflix
- production designer
- Malcolm Brown
- Commons category
- Cat Ballou (film)
- review score
- 60/100
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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