Joel McCrea

Shelley Winters

Paul Kelly

Elsa Lanchester

Marie Windsor

John Russell

John Emery

George Cleveland

Regis Toomey

Paul E. Burns

Frank Ferguson

Vincent Renno

Lawrence Dobkin

Lucille Barkley

Victor Adamson

Marie Allison

Emile Avery

Al Bain

Shirley Ballard

John Barton

Phil Bloom

Rudy Bowman

Chet Brandenburg

Roy Butler

Fred Carson

Steve Clark

John Cliff

Tom Coleman

Oliver Cross

Jack Curtis

Russell Custer

Helen Dickson

Art Dupuis

George Eldredge

Al Ferguson

Sam Finn

Sam Flint

Mary Gleason

Dick Gordon

Kit Guard

Sherry Hall

Chuck Hamilton

Tex Holden

Eileen Howe

Whitey Hughes

Jack Ingram

Chubby Johnson

Dick Johnstone

Al Kunde

Ethan Laidlaw

Mike Lally

Perc Launders

Walter Lawrence

Frank Malet

Frank McCarroll

Russell Meeker

Frank Mills

Monte Montague

Forbes Murray

William H. O'Brien

William J. O'Brien

Tudor Owen

Paul Palmer

Jerry Paris

Jack Perrin

Jack Perry

John Pickard

Anthony Redondo

Bob Reeves

Robert Robinson

John Roy

George Ryland

Cap Somers

Jack Stoney

Brick Sullivan

Harry Tenbrook

Blaine Turner

Max Wagner

Billy Wayne

Chalky Williams

Chili Williams

Hank Worden

Ted J. Kent

Michael Kraike

Louis King

Joan St. Oegger

Glenn E. Anderson

Bernard Herzbrun

Bud Westmore

Leslie I. Carey

Alexander Golitzen

Oliver Emert

Yvonne Wood

Russell A. Gausman

Hans J. Salter

Oscar Brodney

Maury Gertsman

Western

Frenchie

Universal International Pictures

United States of America

English

The Scarlet Angel!

Frenchie is directed by Louis King and written by Oscar Brodney. It stars Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor and John Russell. Music is by Hans Salter and cinematography by Maury Gertsman.

Frenchie Fontaine (Winters) has sold her successful business in New Orleans and has come West to prosper further - or does she have an ulterior motive?

In spite of some on line sources proclaiming this to be a remake of "Destry", which is a considerably better film as it happens, it really isn't a copy. The similarities are for sure there, but it is its own entity and deserves to at least be judged as such.

We have a wonderful tried and trusted Western genre narrative thread where someone is out for revenge, only in this instance it's a foxy lady. Male suitors get in a tizzy about garnering her attentions, the bad guys potter about trying to avert suspicion - but do so badly, and there's some moral outrage from townsfolk who object to Frenchie's forthright money making success. While of course there's some truths to be born out - can open and worms everywhere type of thing.

It's not very strong on the page, that's for sure, but there's plenty in the production to enjoy regardless. Cast are good value for the roles as written, not that there's any great chemistry between Winters and McCrea, but as she snake hips her way around town, and he fronts up with cool as a cucumber swagger, it's easy to just buy into the frothery of it all. The dialogue is often deliciously suggestive, the costuming is high quality (Yvonne Wood), and when action decides to make an appearance it's competently staged.

Yet it's the cinematography that is the pic's best aspect. Maury Gertsman (Comanche Territory) is not a name that jumps off the page for cinematography notices, he definitely was a better purveyor in monochrome, but his Technicolor filters are excellent here. Then there's the gorgeous locales, where Buttermilk Country/Inyo National Forest please the eyes so much you wonder why these weren't used more often through the Western genre heydays?

As a serious Western genre fan I wouldn't be comfortable putting this forward as a must see for like minded souls. However, for McCrea and Winters fans - and actually John Russell ones as well - this is no waste of time. 6/10

Frenchie

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