Even a fair-to-middling Preston Sturges production is better than most comedies by other writer/directors.
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11/12/07
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)
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Reviews Counted:7
Fresh:5
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.1/10
Runtime: 76 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: In THE BEAUTIFUL BLONDE FROM BASHFUL BEND, directed by Preston Sturges, Betty Grable plays a racy saloon owner named Freddie who accidentally shoots a judge while trying to protect her boyfriend,... [More]
Starring: Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallee, Sterling Holloway
Director: Preston Sturges
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Reviews for The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
1 - 7 (sorted by fresh rating)
This musical western burlesque looks slightly better today, but its still more energetic than funny.
05/24/03
Shoots itself in the arse once too many times for its prolonged spoof to work smoothly.
04/19/08
Not so much a lament for the end of the West but for the end of the 1940s
11/15/09
Fast-moving and witty spoof of Western conventions from one of Hollywood's finest writer/directors of comedy.
01/26/06
To paraphrase the theme song, it looks pretty well shot in the end.
03/25/06
Preston Sturges plays his script [based on a story by Earl Felton] with frantic slapstick, stressing raw, bawdy comedy rather than genuine humor, to get the laughs.
11/12/07
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