The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

occasionally makes the coarse humor pay off.....Betty Grable is the chief asset as a western dancehall gal who knows how to handle a gun-and gets into trouble because of it..... ... Full Review

Preston Sturges ' final American film was generally conceded to be a disaster in 1949; even star Betty Grable publicly bad-mouthed the finished product. Grable plays a western dancehall girl named Freddie, who is forced to take it on the lam after accidentally shooting a judge (she'd been aiming at her faithless boyfriend Blackie Jobero, played by Cesar Romero ). ... Full Review

Even a fair-to-middling Preston Sturges production is better than most comedies by other writer/directors....The movie actually plays better than it sounds..... ... Full Review