Fun musical Western which is kind of a spoof of The Westerner with Walter Brennan again as an outlaw (I guess he was a judge in the other one) with a crush on an entertainer. That's a great idea for a musical although they don't really do enough with the Lily Langtry figure - played here, very fun, by Eve Arden. Vincent Price is entertaining as a hammy actor touring the West with Arden, Gale Storm and backstage guy Donald O'Connor.
it's a vehicle for O'Connor who is winning. Charles Lamont directs well, it is lively and in colour. I wish more had been done with Price and Gale Storm but the relationship between Brennan and O'Connor is very sweet.
O'Connor does a final act in blackface, which is unfortunate.
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