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Cat Ballou

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Cat Ballou	comment	Cat Ballou is a 1965 comedic Western film adapted from the 1956 novel The Ballad of Cat Ballou by Roy Chanslor, directed by Elliot Silverstein and starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin.1894: Aspiring schoolteacher Catherine “Cat” Ballou (Fonda) is traveling home by train to Wolf City, Wyoming, to see her rancher father, Frankie Ballou (John Marley). While en route she unwittingly helps accused cattle rustler Clay Boone (Michael Callan) escape the sheriff (Bruce Cabot), when Boone's Uncle Jed (Dwayne Hickman), a drunkard disguised as a preacher, distracts the lawman. She reaches the ranch to find that the Wolf City Development Corporation is trying to take the ranch away from her father, whose only defender is an educated young Indian boy named Jackson Two-Bears (Tom Nardini). Clay and Jed show up and are talked into reluctantly helping Catherine. She also sends a letter and $50 to legendary gunman Kid Shelleen (Marvin) to hire him to come and help protect her father from fast-drawing Tim Strawn (also Marvin), alias Silvernose, the hired killer who is threatening Frankie.Shelleen arrives, a drunken stumble-bum who is literally unable to hit the broad side of a barn when he shoots and whose pants fall down when he draws his gun. Strawn kills Frankie, and when the townspeople refuse to bring him to justice, Catherine becomes the outlaw Cat Ballou and vows to take revenge on the town and on Wolf City Development. She and her four gang members rob a train carrying the Wolf City payroll, and Shelleen, inspired by his love for Cat (unrequited because she loves Clay), dries out, shapes up and again looking and acting like the legendary gunfighter he was, finds and kills Strawn (off-screen) in a gunfight. Later he casually reveals that Strawn was his brother.Cat, posing as a Soiled Dove, confronts town boss and head of Wolf City Development, Sir Harry Percival (Reginald Denny). A struggle ensues, Sir Harry is killed, and Cat is sentenced to be hanged on the gallows. Shelleen falls off the wagon, and as Cat is led up the gallows stairs, he sits on his horse (who looks as drunk as his rider!) as both lean against a building.Just after the noose is placed around her neck, Uncle Jed (again as a fake preacher) cuts the rope as she falls through the trapdoor. Shelleen drunkenly shoots up the town as her gang then spirits her away in a daring rescue. Close credits with the gang happily riding away as drunken Kid Shelleen tries desperately to stay on his horse.Also features Stubby Kaye and, in his last on-screen movie appearance, Nat King Cole, as a pair of traveling, banjo-playing minstrels.
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Cat Ballou / int_11d798db	comment	Railroad Baron: Sir Harry Percival, owner of the Wolf City Development Corporation. So much so that he is allowed to have Cat's father murdered without the town batting an eye.
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Cat Ballou / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
Cat Ballou / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Between Strawn and Shelleen.
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Cat Ballou / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Cat Ballou / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The movie starts with Stubby Kaye and Nat King Cole singing about Cat's impending execution.
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Cat Ballou / int_27adb17a	type	Train Job
Cat Ballou / int_27adb17a	comment	Train Job: Cat and her gang rob the train carrying the Wolf City payroll.
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Cat Ballou / int_2b0d73eb	type	Outlaw Town
Cat Ballou / int_2b0d73eb	comment	Outlaw Town: Hole in the Wall.
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Cat Ballou / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Cat Ballou / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: By the end of the movie, everyone in Wolf City hates Cat for costing them the railroad.
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Cat Ballou / int_3a967286	type	Handsome Lech
Cat Ballou / int_3a967286	comment	Handsome Lech: Clay. Oh so very much.
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Cat Ballou / int_3bfd638c	type	Warts and All
Cat Ballou / int_3bfd638c	comment	Warts and All: Catherine is dismayed to find that Shelleen, whom she hired due to his high reputation with a gun, is constantly drunk and uncoordinated as a result. Even his horse shows a similar laid-back attitude.
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Cat Ballou / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Cat Ballou / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: While the story ticks all the western cliches, by the end of it, nobody in Wolf City likes Cat for killing the man who built up Wolf City, no matter how despotic he was. And if that wasn't enough, her actions also cost them the rail connection. A similar case can be for Sir Harry Percival, as being a corrupt Railroad Baron who's had people killed would result in someone who would want revenge despite the losses to the town.
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Cat Ballou / int_439bff8d	type	The Alleged Steed
Cat Ballou / int_439bff8d	comment	The Alleged Steed: Kid Shelleen's horse, who is apparently as drunk as he is.
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Cat Ballou / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Cat Ballou / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The main plot of the film opens with Jed disguising himself as a preacher to rescue Clay from a US marshal on a train, and ends with him doing the same thing to rescue Cat from execution.
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Cat Ballou / int_5319eefb	type	Book Safe
Cat Ballou / int_5319eefb	comment	Book Safe: Uncle Jed, disguised as a preacher, produces a knife from his Bible and uses it to cut the rope on the gallows as it is placed around Cat's neck. Earlier in the film, he uses the same Bible to hide a gun.
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Cat Ballou / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Cat Ballou / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The Columbia Pictures Torch Lady becomes animated and wears Cat Ballou's gunslinger clothes, then takes out her guns and fires them, seen here. It should be noted that part of this was used in the logo for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
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Cat Ballou / int_66285452	type	Eyepatch of Power
Cat Ballou / int_66285452	comment	Eye Patch Of Power: Parodied by Strawn's tin nose. Also used for a "I'd be more afraid of the guy who gave him that scar" Shout-Out to Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven Samurai.
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Cat Ballou / int_66dbffe8	type	Schoolmarm
Cat Ballou / int_66dbffe8	comment	Schoolmarm: Cat, before she turns into an outlaw.
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Cat Ballou / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Cat Ballou / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The only reason Cat became an outlaw was due to the townspeople's indifference to her father's murder. As such, since she can't get justice within the law, she goes for vengeance outside of it.
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Cat Ballou / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
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Cat Ballou / int_b9a9d078	type	The Noseless
Cat Ballou / int_b9a9d078	comment	The Noseless: Tim Strawn is known as Silvernose due to his prosthetic replacement.
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Cat Ballou / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Cat Ballou / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Inverted; Kid Shelleen literally misses the broad side of the barn.
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Cat Ballou / int_bdd7fd6b	type	These Hands Have Killed
Cat Ballou / int_bdd7fd6b	comment	These Hands Have Killed: Cat has this reaction when she kills Sir Harry.
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Cat Ballou / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Cat Ballou / int_cbe687ab	comment	A similar case can be for Sir Harry Percival, as being a corrupt Railroad Baron who's had people killed would result in someone who would want revenge despite the losses to the town.
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Cat Ballou / int_d21f3d5d	type	Justified Criminal
Cat Ballou / int_d21f3d5d	comment	Justified Criminal: Due to the reasons listed in the trope above.
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Cat Ballou / int_da15653d	type	Book and Switch
Cat Ballou / int_da15653d	comment	Book and Switch: Cat hides a dime novel behind a poetry book by Tennyson while taking the train home from finishing school.
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Cat Ballou / int_da484c4a	type	Drunken Master
Cat Ballou / int_da484c4a	comment	Drunken Master: When Kid Shelleen is sober he shakes too much with the DTs to hit anything, and when he's drunk he staggers and stumbles so much he can hardly hold a gun. But for a short time — after he's had a few drinks, but before he gets drunk — he is again the deadly-accurate, fast-shooting gunfighter he used to be. Unfortunately this time only lasts for a few minutes.
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Cat Ballou / int_e0fb1d9f	type	Bad Habits
Cat Ballou / int_e0fb1d9f	comment	Bad Habits: Jed disguises himself as a preacher to rescue both Clay and Cat.
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Cat Ballou / int_e4d079c1	type	Greek Chorus
Cat Ballou / int_e4d079c1	comment	Greek Chorus: Professor Sam the Shade (Stubby Kaye) and the Sunrise Kid (Nat King Cole).
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Cat Ballou / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
Cat Ballou / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: The square dance was originally intended to be this, and was shot in one take but cuts were added afterwards.
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Cat Ballou / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Cat Ballou / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Shelleen and Strawn are brothers.
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Cat Ballou / int_f3aa6298	type	Sealed with a Kiss
Cat Ballou / int_f3aa6298	comment	Sealed with a Kiss: The film ends with Clay and Cat kissing.
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Cat Ballou / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Cat Ballou / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Shelleen completely misunderstands why the room is full of candles... at a funeral. He even starts singing Happy Birthday to You!.
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