I wish a town like "Las Mujeres" really existed - I sure would like to visit it! The women run this town, and everyone seems to be having fun - sure, some men lose everything they've got on the gambling tables, but, as one "victim" puts it, "it's always a pleasure losing to you, Iron Mae". The four primary women in this film are Marie Windsor, as the tough-talking saloon queen, Jacqueline Fontaine as a sweet-natured girl, Carla Balenda as her sassy singing sister (she has a very funny scene where she's trying to seduce a doctor) and, probably my favorite, Maria Hart as the female "muscle" of the saloon - at one point she does a swift judo flip to a guy who disobeys her orders! But most of the male characters are memorable as well, including Sam Bass (in a VERY different portrayal than that of the film "Calamity Jane and Sam Bass", made just a few years earlier) and a comic-relief bartender / "healing"-potion-selling crook. The movie looks quite beautiful in Cinecolor, and has a lot of humor; my main objection is, why have the inexperienced doctor fight two of the bad guys (both seasoned criminals) singlehandedly at the end? Give one of them to Maria Hart! **1/2 out of 4.
Review of Outlaw Women
