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    Ballad of Josie, The (1967)

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    Widow Josie Minick (Doris Day) takes up sheep farming in order to support herself and her son. Her new neighbours are dismayed by her activities.

    Bland is too strong a word for this tepid flick, which never really catches fire despite being directed by western ace Andrew V McLaglen.

    Doris Day is good, even though by this stage in her career she was becoming hard to cast, but the men are desperately uninteresting – only Andy Devine brings a sense of authenticity to this western where the jeans look newly ironed and the faces are too well scrubbed.

    This was the first Day movie to play as a co-feature, and the writing was on the wall – she made only two more films and then, sadly, retired from the big screen.

    Josie Minick
    Doris Day
    Jason Meredith
    Peter Graves
    Arch Ogden
    George Kennedy
    Judge Tatum
    Andy Devine
    Charlie Lord
    William Talman
    Fonse Pruitt
    David Hartman
    Doc
    Guy Raymond
    Annabelle Pettijohn
    Audrey Christie
    Deborah Wilkes
    Karen Jensen
    Widow Renfrew
    Elisabeth Fraser

    Director
    Andrew V McLaglen

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