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Re: AFI 100 Years Series Discussion & Challenges, vol. 2
My Little Chickadee - 6 of 10
Stars list - Mae West
Mae West does her awesome Mae West thing that she's so damn good at doing. this time the setting is the old west and when her stage is hijacked by the masked bandit she's abducted as well. But the bandit quite likes her and returns her safely. but when a shrill busybody later sees the bandit embracing West in her room she is run out of town on the railroad. The busybody follows her. The train picks up WC Fields and the movie picks up as well. Before the train arrives, Mae shows off her shooting prowess by gunning down eighteen indians with three six shooters when they try to attack the train. then she's denounced again by the busybody as an unfit woman unless she's married and settled down and West realizes the next town will be no different for her. so she oppurtunistically grabs a fellow that looks like a preacher and has him do a sham marraige between her and Fields. Upon arriving in the new town, Fields begins to try and swindle folks and is made the town sheriff as the quickest way to get rid of someone (they're all shot). Meanwhile West falls for two new men in the town, a tall strapping reporter and an dark and elegant owner of the saloon. One of them is naturally the bandit (it's not hard to figure out) and she and fields get mixed up quite a bit throughout the film, though the highlight is when she puts a goat in their bridal bed while fields is in the bath and slips out for a rendevouz with her masked lover. Naturally it all turns out cozy in the end, with West free from her sham marraige and free to carry on a swinging life with her two lovers, which is a little more unexpected. Quite funny throughout and West holds the screen as she always does, quite good.
Last edited by Adam_S : 04-06-2008 at 11:35 AM.
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