Review of The Gal Who Took the West (1949) by Tamsin P — 14 Sep 2017
A very intriguing movie. It's sort of what happened when someone took Ryonosuke Akutagawa's 'In a Grove' and made it into a lighthearted comedy.
The story, like 'In a Grove', is told from four different perspectives, only three of them are unreliable. An opera singer arrives in town, and each of the three men telling the story has a different interpretation of her. One man claims her to be weak and fragile, having fainted into another man's arms, another claims that she was drunk and had a hangover, and a third claims that she was pretending to faint, and she was a fraud posing as an opera singer. And that's only the start of the conflicting stories.
It's not like any other Western movie I've seen. The plot is a bit convoluted but give it a watch!
This review of The Gal Who Took the West (1949) was written by Tamsin P on 14 Sep 2017.
The Gal Who Took the West has generally received mixed reviews.
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