A Republic Failure
Oklahoma Annie (1952)
It's probably impossible to count the number of decent B-westerns produced by Republic Pictures. That's one studio that could continually be trusted to provide something quite entertaining and worth watching.
It's probably impossible to count the number of decent B-westerns produced by Republic Pictures. That's one studio that could continually be trusted to provide something quite entertaining and worth watching.
They failed with this picture.
A storekeeper falls in love with the new sheriff in town, even becomes his deputy in an attempt to clean up some of the county's crime. The sherriff, who happens to drive a shiny new police car rather than ride a horse, doesn't see Judy the storekeeper deputy as the competant type but in the end she gets the job done while singing a song or two.
I'm really not sure about the effectiveness of when a western meets modern day. Not that it really matters but was western America really like that circa 1950, all Old West looking but with cars as well as horses? That was accomplished well in many Roy Rogers films but I didn't like it here.
Also very interesting is how the female lead isn't attractive. That is very uncommon in Hollyweird. It's the beautiful people who are almost always cast as the lead but not here. It was hard to get past that. That might seem shallow but it's not, it's pure and true human nature -- we gravitate to beauty and some people just aren't all too wonderful to look at.
In any case, this movie failed. The biggest thing it left me with is the wondering of what the heck "Oklahoma Annie" has to do with anything in the film. There was no Annie. There was no mention of Oklahoma. It's like someone thought of the title and but then forgot to rename the main character. [shaking my head at the ridiculousness of that and the whole dumb movie.]
Waste of time. The end.
A storekeeper falls in love with the new sheriff in town, even becomes his deputy in an attempt to clean up some of the county's crime. The sherriff, who happens to drive a shiny new police car rather than ride a horse, doesn't see Judy the storekeeper deputy as the competant type but in the end she gets the job done while singing a song or two.
I'm really not sure about the effectiveness of when a western meets modern day. Not that it really matters but was western America really like that circa 1950, all Old West looking but with cars as well as horses? That was accomplished well in many Roy Rogers films but I didn't like it here.
Also very interesting is how the female lead isn't attractive. That is very uncommon in Hollyweird. It's the beautiful people who are almost always cast as the lead but not here. It was hard to get past that. That might seem shallow but it's not, it's pure and true human nature -- we gravitate to beauty and some people just aren't all too wonderful to look at.
In any case, this movie failed. The biggest thing it left me with is the wondering of what the heck "Oklahoma Annie" has to do with anything in the film. There was no Annie. There was no mention of Oklahoma. It's like someone thought of the title and but then forgot to rename the main character. [shaking my head at the ridiculousness of that and the whole dumb movie.]
Waste of time. The end.
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