The Redhead and the Cowboy ** (1951, Glenn Ford, Edmond O’Brien, Rhonda Fleming) – Classic Movie Review 10,550

Back at Paramount Pictures, Rhonda Fleming plays the title role of The Redhead in director Leslie Fenton’s mildly enjoyable Western, The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951), also with Glenn Ford and Edmond O’Brien.

Ford stars as Gil Kyle, framed for murder during the US Civil War. He sets off in a much troubled pursuit of his alibi, Confederate agent Candace Bronson (Fleming), who is away delivering a message about a Yankee gold shipment.

Ford, Fleming and O’Brien as Major Dunn Jeffers all give stalwart performances. The story is serviceable and the film is good enough, but no more than that.

Fleming had a severe back injury on the set when she did a stunt, falling from a horseback on an uphill move, and suffered for the rest of her life.

The screenplay is by Jonathan Latimer and Liam O’Brien, based on the story by Charles Marquis Warren.

Daniel L Fapp shoots in black and white.

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