This 1980 film is an old-fashioned Hollywood Western that glorifies outlaws and romanticizes the Wild West. It features the corny emoting of Old Hollywood legend Burt Lancaster, and you can fairly argue that it seems more like a 1955 movie than a 1980 effort, but I have to admit that I enjoyed setting my brain aside to watch this mindless whitewashing of the Doolan-Dalton gang.
Unfortunately, it’s a PG film, and the only nudity was from John Savage. Boo!
Amanda Plummer (Cattle Annie), who was 22 when the film was lensed in the summer of 1979, and future star Diane Lane (Little Britches), who was only 14, bathed in the river with the outlaw gang, but they stayed covered.
Plummer
Lane
Notes:
- The real Cattle Annie was only 13 when she was captured, but Plummer looked young enough to play the part.
- Plummer (Honey Bunny in Pulp Fiction) is the daughter of Tammy Grimes and the stage and screen icon, Christopher Plummer.
- The real Cattle Annie, at least according to one version of the tale, lived until 1978! She was almost 96 when she passed.