The Marshal's Daughter (1953)
Man-oh-Man What a Woman!
71 min
To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass named Laurie Anders, was in 1953 a popular TV personality. A regular on The Ken Murray Show, Anders had risen to fame with the Southern-fried catchphrase "Ah love the wi-i-i-ide open spaces!" Striking while the iron was hot, the entrepreneurial Murray produced this inexpensive oater, which cast Anders as Laurie Dawson, the singing daughter of a U.S. marshal (Hoot Gibson). Teaming with her dad to capture outlaw Trigger Gans (Bob Duncan), Laurie briefly disguises herself as a masked bandit. Amidst much stock footage from earlier westerns and a plethora of lame jokes and dreadful puns, The Marshal's Daughter is a treat for trivia buffs, featuring such virile actors as Preston S. Foster, Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Buddy Baer as "themselves."
- Release date
- June 25, 1953
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Darrell Calker
Cast
- Laurie Anders as Laurie Dawson
- Hoot Gibson as Marshal Ben Dawson
- Ken Murray as 'Smiling Billy' Murray
- Preston Foster as Preston Foster - Poker-Game Player
- Johnny Mack Brown as Johnny Mack Brown - Poker-Game Player
- Jimmy Wakely as Jimmy Wakely - Poker-Game Player
- Buddy Baer as Buddy Baer - Poker Game Player
- Harry Lauter as Russ Mason
- Robert Bray as Anderson
- Bob Duncan as Trigger Gans
Crew
- William Berke · Director
- Bob Duncan · Writer
- Ken Murray · Producer
- Darrell Calker · Composer
- Reg Browne · Editor