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    Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

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    This Technicolor outdoor song and dance extravaganza is a flashy film version of the Broadway hit musical about Annie Oakley, the celebrated female sharpshooter.

    Set at the turn of the 20th Century, Oakley (Betty Hutton) joins the famous Wild West Show of Buffalo Bill (Louis Calhern) by besting top marksman Frank Butler (Howard Keel) in a shooting contest.

    A sunburned hick from the sticks, she quickly rises to star status, creating a jealousy factor which complicates their romance.

    Befriended by the show’s other topliner, the real Chief Sitting Bull (J. Carrol Naish), Annie makes a whirlwind European tour before returning to New York to face-off with Frank and the high-toned, white-gloved society gals he always said he preferred.

    Hutton and Keel belt out the lively Irving Berlin music with gusto. Memorable songs include Anything You Can Do and Doin’ What Comes Naturally.

    The direction is somewhat stilted, but the production is lavish.

    Annie Oakley
    Betty Hutton
    Frank Butler
    Howard Keel
    Charlie Davenport
    Keenan Wynn
    Pawnee Bill
    Edward Arnold
    Buffalo Bill
    Louis Calhern
    Chief Sitting Bull
    J. Carrol Naish
    Dolly Tate
    Benay Venuta
    Foster Wilson
    Clinton Sundberg
    Mac
    James Harrison
    Little Jake
    Bradley Mora
    Nellie
    Diana Dick
    Jessie
    Susan Odin
    Minnie
    Eleanor Brown
    Little Horse
    Chief Yowlachie

    Director
    George Sidney

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