Review of The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949) by Greg W — 08 Aug 2015

Western musical or a musical western either way not for me.

This review of The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949) was written by Greg W on 08 Aug 2015.

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Kevin N (818) on 19 Sep 2011

An underrated oddity made toward the end of Preston Sturges' career, this is an unabashed, unrestrained farce with a whole lot of things going…

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By Bosley Crowther (448) for New York Times (5,786) on 25 Mar 2006

To paraphrase the theme song, it looks pretty well shot in the end…

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By Blake P (935) on 05 May 2009

Enjoyable but nothing out of the ordinary, Betty Grable is good as she usually is…

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By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 15 Nov 2009

Not so much a lament for the end of the West but for the end of the 1940s…

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By Variety Staff (1,156) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Nov 2007

Preston Sturges plays his script [based on a story by Earl Felton] with frantic slapstick, stressing raw, bawdy comedy rather than genuine…

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By Virginia Graham (38) for The Spectator (1,162) on 14 Mar 2018

A parody should surely be subtle with a fine humorous edge to it, but here we have nothing but exaggeration of a most obstreperous kind…

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