The third teaming of that not-particularly-remembered MGM combo, Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker. It's an odd Western, set in late 1700s Kentucky, when lots of people wore Davy Crockett coonskin hats and shot at things, and Indians had Mohawks. Robert Taylor is meant to be a mountain man and Eleanor Parker the tomboy from a boisterous otherwise-all-male family who falls in love with him; if you can go with that, you'll probably enjoy the movie.
It is a bit different from a lot of "I don't want to get married" Western comedies in that Robert Taylor's character comes across as heterosexual - he is clearly attracted to Parker and wants to sleep with her just doesn't want to get married to her.
No one in this movie feels entirely comfortably cast. Alan Hale Jnr is Parker's aspiring suitor, Russ Tamblyn and Russell Johnson are among her borthers \brother and Victor McLaglen is her dad. Also it's very studio set when some more location work would have helped. But there is some well done action sequences and I really like Eleanor Parker; it's brightly spirited and feels different to many Westerns around this time.
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