A ticket to Tomahawk 1950
Cast:
Dan Dailey
Anne Baxter
Rory Calhoun
Walter Brennan
Marilyn Monroe
Dirección: Richard Sale
Producción: Robert Bassler
Guión: Mary Loos and Richard Sale
Fotografía: Harry Jackson
Musica: Cyril Mockridge
Edición: Harmon Jones
90 minutes Technicolor
20th Century Fox
Director: Richard Sale
Producer: Robert Bassler
Cinematographer: Harry Jackson
Screenplay: Mary Loos, Richard Sale
Ticket to Tomahawk is a rather inane stagecoach western. Dan Dailey plays the leader of a raveling medicine show who comes to the aid of a fast-shootin' daughter of a railroad man.
A stagecoach line representative is doing everything he can to prevent a new train service from winning a Colorado territory franchise. The whole affair boils down to a race between the train and the stagecoaches. The film's never-take-a-breath action scenes are played out against some of the most gorgeous Colorado scenery ever captured on Technicolor. A Ticket to Tomahawk has achieved latter-day fame due to the unbilled presence of Marilyn Monroe as one of Dan Dailey's chorus gals.
Although Anne Baxter is far too prettily made up to convincingly play a sharp-shooting tomboy in this fanciful comedy-western, lush Technicolor and a lively group of dance-hall girls, all but makes up for Baxter;s miscasting. Connie Gilchrist, as the dance-hall madam, lectures Miss Baxter on the subject of sex appeal, which, she claims, the naive girl sorely lacks. But Baxter's loveliness makes the scene not only redundant but slightly perplexing. The songs are cheery enough and if the film is a far cry from Annie Get Your Gun, which was rather obviously the inspiration, it does manage to entertain in its own clumsy way.
