"...it seems as if Universal were bent on setting back the art of the commercial American film by 25 years, as well as on destroying the money-making reputations of the stars involved." - Vincent Canby, New York Times Published: March 14, 1968
"The Ballad of Josie is a pleasant, innocuous Doris Day oater comedy about sheep-cattle range wars, and women's rights, in pre-1890, pre-statehood Wyoming." - Variety
"The Ballad of Josie is a pleasant, innocuous Doris Day oater comedy about sheep-cattle range wars, and women's rights, in pre-1890, pre-statehood Wyoming." - Variety
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Andrew V. McLaglen
Norman MacDonnell Martin Melcher Harold Swanton Doris Day Peter Graves George Kennedy Andy Devine William Talman David Hartman Guy Raymond Audrey Christie Karen Jensen Elisabeth Fraser Linda Meiklejohn Shirley O'Hara Timothy Scott Don Stroud Paul Fix Harry Carey Jr. John Fiedler Robert Lowery Teddy Quinn Frank De Vol Joseph Gershenson Milton Krasner Fred A. Chulack Otto S. Lovering Universal Pictures Feb 1, 1967 102 Minutes USA English $1,320,000.00 |
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Doris plays a young woman who stirs things up in a western town by raising sheep instead of cattle and taking on the men of the town ranchers Peter Graves and George Kennedy. In true Doris style she shows the men that she can fend for herself and her son winning the love of Peter Graves along the way. It was a minor hit for Doris. The movie was inspired by the real life story of Josie Bassett.
Movie Quotes
Mooney: You hardly think she could shoot that thing.
Jason Meredith: Ah, that woman gets crazy every so often.
Mooney: Yeah, they're prisoners of their juices.
Josie Minick: Speed won't matter. I'm counting on surprise.
Simpson, General Store Owner: Oh, they'll be expecting it. You put a woman in pants, the rest is bound to follow.
Josie Minick: Speed won't matter. I'm counting on surprise.
Simpson, General Store Owner: Oh, they'll be expecting it. You put a woman in pants, the rest is bound to follow.
Songs
"The Ballad of Josie" - Sung by Ron Dante (as Ronnie Dante)
"Wait Till Tomorrow" - Sung by The Sun Set
Trivia
Variety magazine noted that during the half hour in which this film was being broadcast at the same time as 'The Doris Day Show' on CBS, more than 2/3 of the television sets in the USA were watching Doris Day on television, something that had never happened before or since with any star.
From IMDB:
"Film debut of David Hartman."
"Final film of Robert Lowery."
"The film's theme song was sung by Ron Dante (Billed as Ronnie Dante), who would later become the lead singer of the studio group The Archies, conceived by the animated TV series The Archie Show (1968). The group had several Top-40 hits in the late 1960s, including their biggest hit: 'Sugar, Sugar'."
"The sheepherders reference an actual sheep/cattle feud called the Pleasant Valley War between the cattle-raising Graham family and the sheep-raising Tewksbury family. The feud lasted for nearly ten years and was immortalized by Zane Grey in his book /To The Last Man: A Story of the Pleasant Valley War'."
"Josie gets caught on a roll of flypaper, the type of which was not invented until 50 years after the movie was set."
This movie is also referenced in:
Sometimes a Great Notion (1970)
Hank passes Willard Eggleston's movie theater and a poster of the film 'The Ballad of Josie'
Mooney: You hardly think she could shoot that thing.
Jason Meredith: Ah, that woman gets crazy every so often.
Mooney: Yeah, they're prisoners of their juices.
Josie Minick: Speed won't matter. I'm counting on surprise.
Simpson, General Store Owner: Oh, they'll be expecting it. You put a woman in pants, the rest is bound to follow.
Josie Minick: Speed won't matter. I'm counting on surprise.
Simpson, General Store Owner: Oh, they'll be expecting it. You put a woman in pants, the rest is bound to follow.
Songs
"The Ballad of Josie" - Sung by Ron Dante (as Ronnie Dante)
"Wait Till Tomorrow" - Sung by The Sun Set
Trivia
Variety magazine noted that during the half hour in which this film was being broadcast at the same time as 'The Doris Day Show' on CBS, more than 2/3 of the television sets in the USA were watching Doris Day on television, something that had never happened before or since with any star.
From IMDB:
"Film debut of David Hartman."
"Final film of Robert Lowery."
"The film's theme song was sung by Ron Dante (Billed as Ronnie Dante), who would later become the lead singer of the studio group The Archies, conceived by the animated TV series The Archie Show (1968). The group had several Top-40 hits in the late 1960s, including their biggest hit: 'Sugar, Sugar'."
"The sheepherders reference an actual sheep/cattle feud called the Pleasant Valley War between the cattle-raising Graham family and the sheep-raising Tewksbury family. The feud lasted for nearly ten years and was immortalized by Zane Grey in his book /To The Last Man: A Story of the Pleasant Valley War'."
"Josie gets caught on a roll of flypaper, the type of which was not invented until 50 years after the movie was set."
This movie is also referenced in:
Sometimes a Great Notion (1970)
Hank passes Willard Eggleston's movie theater and a poster of the film 'The Ballad of Josie'
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