Movies:
Red Garters
DVD Release
- Release Date: 2005
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- Full screen format
- Dolby Digital English Mono
- English subtitles
- Rating:
- Genre: Comedy
- Movie Type: Comedy Western, Musical Western
- Themes: Out For Revenge
- Director: George Marshall
- Main Cast: Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell, Gene Barry
- Release Year: 1954
- Country: US
- Run Time: 91 minutes
Plot
On paper, Red Garters sounds like a wonderful idea: a raucous spoof of westerns, done up in the stylized fashion of a Broadway musical. Rosemary Clooney and Guy Mitchell, both popular recording stars of the era, head the cast as Calaveras Kate and Reb Randall, while Jack Carson is on hand as wheeler-dealer frontier lawyer Jason Carberry. The plot, which hardly matters, concerns Reb Randall's efforts to find out who was responsible for his brother's death. The film's basic joke is that none of the traditional western cliches come to fruition: the bad guys outdraw the good guys, the damsel-in-distress isn't rescued in the nick of time, and so on. Also, this may well be the first sagebrush satire in which the male characters doff their hats respectfully when mentioning "The Code of the West" (it certainly wasn' t the last!) To emphasize the unreality of the entire project, the backgrounds are designed impressionistically, like an animated cartoon. Red Garters might have worked better as the closing production number on a TV variety program than a 91-minute feature film; even so, everyone involved (especially tunesmiths Jay Livingston and Ray Evans) deserves credit for trying something different. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie GuideCast
- Rosemary Clooney - Claveras Kate
- Jack Carson - Jason Carberry
- Guy Mitchell - Reb Randall
- Gene Barry - Rafael Moreno
Cass Daley - Minnie Redwing; Frank Faylen - Billy Buckett; Reginald Owen - Judge Winthrop; Buddy Ebsen - Ginger Pete; Richard Hale - Dr. J. Pott Troy; Joanne Gilbert - Sheila Winthrop; Pat Crowley - Susana Martinez De La Cruz
