Cat Ballou (1965) is a western comedy film directed by Elliot Silverstein. It revolves around a brave daughter forced to take revenge for the death of her beloved father, who was murdered by a ...
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Smartly summed up by Turner Classic Movies as a playful pastiche of “familiar motifs such as shootouts, train robberies, posses in pursuit, and frontier romance,” director Elliot Silverstein’s Cat ...
UPDATE, with DGA statement: Elliot Silverstein, who directed Jane Fonda and, in an Oscar-winning performance, Lee Marvin in the 1965 comedy-Western Cat Ballou, died Nov. 24 in Los Angeles. He was 96.