Bullwhip ** (1958, Guy Madison, Rhonda Fleming, James Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 10,570

Director Harmon Jones’s 1958 Western film Bullwhip is a traditional Fifties-style comedic look at life on the range, with tepid handling, fumbling the admittedly tricky juggling act between action, humour and romance.

To escape a hanging, tough and hunky frontiersman Steve Daley (Guy Madison) marries the gorgeously smouldering Cheyenne O’Malley (Rhonda Fleming) and tries to organise her fur-trading affairs while they gradually fall in love. But Rhonda has got double-crossing menfolk to whip into shape.

Guy Madison (1922–1996).

The performing is modest, and so is the story, but John J Martin’s CinemaScope and DeLuxe colour cinematography is an asset.

Also in the cast are James Griffith, Don Beddoe, Peter Adams, Dan Sheridan, Burt Nelson, Hank Worden, Frank Griffin, Al Terr, Tim Graham, Wayne Mallory, Barbara Woodell, Rush Williams, Don Shelton, Jack Reynolds, J W Cody, Jack Carr, Rick Vallin, and Sol Gorss.

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