The Marshal's Daughter (1953)
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To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass named Laurie Anders, was in 1953 a popular TV personality. A regular on The Ken Murray Show, Anders had risen to fame with the Southern-fried catchphrase "Ah love the wi-i-i-ide open spaces!" Striking while the iron was hot, the entrepreneurial Murray produced this inexpensive oater, which cast Anders as Laurie Dawson, the singing daughter of a U.S. marshal (Hoot Gibson). Teaming with her dad to capture outlaw Trigger Gans (Bob Duncan), Laurie briefly disguises herself as a masked bandit. Amidst much stock footage from earlier westerns and a plethora of lame jokes and dreadful puns, The Marshal's Daughter is a treat for trivia buffs, featuring such virile actors as Preston S. Foster, Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Buddy Baer as "themselves." Ken Murray himself makes a supporting appearance as a leering frontier wiseacre named "Sliding Bill Murray." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Laurie Anders - Laurie Dawson
- Ken Murray - Sliding Bill Murray
- Bob Duncan - Trigger Gans
- Tom London - Sheriff Flynn
- Cecil Elliott - Miss Tiddleford
- Julian Upton - Brad
- Lee Phelps - Sheriff Barnes
- Johnny Mack Brown - Himself
- Buddy Baer - Himself
- Tex Ritter
- Danny Duncan - Drunk
- Hoot Gibson - Ben Dawson
- Harry Lauter - Russ Mason
- Forrest Taylor - Uncle Jed
- B.G. Norman - Little Boy
- Francis Ford - Gramps
- Ted Jordan - Augie
- Preston S. Foster - Himself
- Jimmy Wakely - Himself
- Robert Bray - Anderson
- Harry Harvey - Bartender
- Director(s):
- William A. Berke
- Writer(s):
- Bob Duncan
- Producer(s):
- Ken Murray
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