The Ballad of Josie ** (1967, Doris Day, Peter Graves, George Kennedy, William Talman, Andy Devine, Audrey Christie) – Classic Movie Review 10,288

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1967 Technicolor film The Ballad of Josie is an amiable girl-power Western comedy, with Doris Day enjoying herself as the widow Josie Minick, who accidentally kills her drunken husband with a pool cue, then, along with her son, opens her own sheep farm to the dismay of the cattle country neighbours.

With some comedy, some whimsy, some feminism, some melodrama, and some Western clichés, The Ballad of Josie is some odd little film.

Day is likeable, as always, but by this time she had already had her day in movies.

Also in the cast are Peter Graves, George Kennedy, William Talman, Andy Devine, Audrey Christie, David Hartman, Guy Raymond, Karen Jensen, Elizabeth Fraser, Linda Meiklejohn, Shirley O’Hara, Don Stroud, Paul Fix and Timothy Scott.

The writer is Harold Swanton.

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