Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
Acting
Shelley Winters playing against type as a calculated, vengeful businesswoman.
Costume
Frenchie's wardrobe evolution mirrors her shifting power in each scene.
Director
Louis King
Joel McCrea
Sheriff Tom Banning
Shelley Winters
Frenchie Fontaine
Paul Kelly
Pete Lambert
Elsa Lanchester
Countess
Marie Windsor
Diane Gorman
John Russell
Lance Cole
John Emery
Clyde Gorman
George Cleveland
Mayor Jefferson Harding
Regis Toomey
Carter
Paul E. Burns
Rednose
Frank Ferguson
Jim Dobbs
Lawrence Dobkin
Bartender
Victor Adamson
Saloon Patron (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Marketed as a 'Destry Rides Again' cash-in, this was Universal's attempt to recast Winters as a Dietrich-style western siren—she fought the studio the whole way.
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