Dakota Lil ** (1950, Marie Windsor, George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, John Emery) – Classic Movie Review 13,131

Dakota Lil (1950)

The 1950 20th Century Fox Western film Dakota Lil boasts lovely Technicolor and top movie broad Marie Windsor as the tough-as-nails dance-hall singer of the title.

Director Lesley Selander’s 1950 20th Century Fox Technicolor Western film Dakota Lil is based on a story by Frank Gruber, and stars Marie Windsor, George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, John Emery, Wallace Ford and Jack Lambert.

Top movie broad Marie Windsor, as a tough dance-hall gal called Dakota Lil, is more than a match for George Montgomery as Secret Service agent Tom Horn, Rod Cameron as counterfeit gang boss Harve Logan, or John Emery as Vincent, in this thin, plodding and unpersuasive cowboy counterfeiters yarn.

The cast keep it going: George Montgomery plays the Secret Service agent Tom Horn, sent to bust a phoney money gang, discovers that saloon singer Dakota Lil (Marie Windsor) is one of the baddies, and uses her to get to the psychopathic Mr Big, Harve Logan (Rod Cameron).

20th Century Fox provide lovely Technicolor, with the cinematography Jack Greenhalgh. It’s an A grade production for what amounts to a real B movie.

The film was released by 20th Century Fox on 17 February 1950.

Marie Windsor’s singing voice is dubbed by Anita Ellis.

The cast are George Montgomery as Tom Horn / Steve Garrett, Rod Cameron as Harve Logan / Kid Curry, Marie Windsor as Dakota Lil, John Emery as Vincent, Wallace Ford as Carter Jack Lambert as Dummy, Larry Johns as Sheriff, Marion Martin as Blonde Singer, James Flavin as Secret Service Chief Walter Sande as Butch Cassidy, Lillian Bronson as Sheriff’s Wife, Kenneth MacDonald as Fletch, Clancy Cooper as Bartender, Bill Perrott as Cashier, Alberto Morin as Rurales Captain, J Farrell MacDonald as Ellis, Nacho Galindo, Soledad Jiménez, Ros Turich, Ben Harris, Sol Gorss, Joel Friedkin. and Frank Lackteen, with Anita Ellis as Dakota Lil’s Singing Voice.

Dakota Lil is directed by Lesley Selander, runs 88 minutes, is made and released by 20th Century Fox, is written by Maurice Geraghty, based on a story by Frank Gruber, is shot in Technicolor by Jack Greenhalgh, is produced by Edward L Alperson and Jack Jungmeyer, is scored by Dimitri Tiomkin, and designed by Gordon Wiles.

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