Rip-roaring Western-Musical that is fast-paced fun all taking place in the small Wild West town of Headstone where a bad man known as "Killer Pete" has killed four previous sheriffs and regularly ransacks the town of it's loot. Enter the new sheriff, a handsome bloke named Tex Miller (Glenn Ford), and the new gal about town, Belinda "Bill" Pendergast (Penny Singleton), just arrived from the east where she attended a "young ladies seminary" and, oddly enough, can out-handle most men with a gun. Tex and Bill met on the wagon into town, shot some Indians on the way in, and soon are thinking about getting married - except she can't stop accidentally throwing pies in his face. Meanwhile Bill moves in with her Uncle who lives above the saloon/dance hall and gets into some tussles with saloon dancing girl, Lola (Ann Miller).
With entertaining musical numbers featuring singing cowboys, a Barbershop quartet, Ann Miller performing a tap-dancing number on top of the bar, Allen Jenkins as a somewhat cowardly deputy who also sings and a dances (a little) - - not to mention a knock-down, drag-out, full-fledged "cat fight" between the two women, a big finale where the women of the town get the best of some bad men via the use of mops, brooms, and a big cast-iron frying pan, and Glenn Ford at the peak of his most young and gorgeous here, this proves to be a pleasantly fun and humorous watch.
With entertaining musical numbers featuring singing cowboys, a Barbershop quartet, Ann Miller performing a tap-dancing number on top of the bar, Allen Jenkins as a somewhat cowardly deputy who also sings and a dances (a little) - - not to mention a knock-down, drag-out, full-fledged "cat fight" between the two women, a big finale where the women of the town get the best of some bad men via the use of mops, brooms, and a big cast-iron frying pan, and Glenn Ford at the peak of his most young and gorgeous here, this proves to be a pleasantly fun and humorous watch.