The Ballad of Josie
1967 film by Andrew V. McLaglen
- 22 December 1967 (1967-12-22)
- February 1, 1968 (1968-02-01)
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The Ballad of Josie is a 1967 Technicolor American comedy Western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen[1] and starring Doris Day, Peter Graves, and George Kennedy. It humorously tackles 1960s themes of feminism in a traditional Western setting.
The film featured the last acting role for William Talman.[2] It was filmed on two locations in Thousand Oaks, California: North Ranch and Wildwood Regional Park.[3]
Plot
Josie (Doris Day) is a young woman living in (fictional) Arapahoe County, Wyoming. She accidentally kills her abusive alcoholic husband when she opens the bedroom door and knocks him backward down the stairs. She is put on trial for his death, but is acquitted. Her father-in-law gets custody of her young son (since he was better able to provide for his care) and takes him to Cheyenne to live while she tries to build a life as a rancher (including wearing Levi's pants, boots, etc.). Josie then incurs the annoyance of her male cattle rancher neighbors by farming sheep north of the Wyoming deadline[4][circular reference]), and setting up a women's suffrage movement.
Cast
- Doris Day as Josie Minick
- Peter Graves as Jason Meredith
- George Kennedy as Arch Ogden
- Andy Devine as Judge Tatum
- William Talman as District Attorney Charlie Lord
- David Hartman as Sheriff Fonse Pruitt
- Guy Raymond as Doc
- Audrey Christie as Annabelle Pettijohn
- Karen Jensen as Deborah Wilkes
- Elisabeth Fraser as Widow Renfrew
- Linda Meiklejohn as Jenny McCardle
- Shirley O'Hara as Elizabeth
- Timothy Scott as Klugg The Sheepherder
- Don Stroud as Bratsch The Sheepherder
- Paul Fix as Alpheus Minick
- Harry Carey as Mooney, Meredith's Foreman
- John Fiedler as Simpson, general store owner
- Robert Lowery as Whit Minick, town drunk
- Teddy Quinn as Luther Minick, Josie's son
- Edward Faulkner as Juror/Liveryman
See also
References
External links
- The Ballad of Josie at IMDb
- The Ballad of Josie at the TCM Movie Database
- The Ballad of Josie at AllMovie
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Films directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
- Man in the Vault (1956)
- Gun the Man Down (1956)
- The Abductors (1957)
- Freckles (1960)
- The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1961)
- McLintock! (1963)
- Shenandoah (1965)
- The Rare Breed (1966)
- Monkeys, Go Home! (1967)
- The Way West (1967)
- The Ballad of Josie (1967)
- The Devil's Brigade (1968)
- Bandolero! (1968)
- Hellfighters (1968)
- The Undefeated (1969)
- Chisum (1970)
- One More Train to Rob (1971)
- Fools' Parade (1971)
- Something Big (1971)
- Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973)
- Stowaway to the Moon (1975)
- Mitchell (1975)
- Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free (1976)
- The Last Hard Men (1976)
- Murder at the World Series (1977)
- The Wild Geese (1978)
- North Sea Hijack (1979)
- Breakthrough (1979)
- The Sea Wolves (1980)
- The Shadow Riders (1982)
- Sahara (1983)
- Travis McGee (1983)
- The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985)
- Return from the River Kwai (1989)
- Eye of the Widow (1991)
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