1965年，西部片在几度沉浮之后，又迎来了一丝曙光。由埃利奥特·西尔弗斯坦(Elliot Silverstein)导演的《女贼金丝猫》(Cat Ballou)横空出世。

 

剧情简介

一条新修的铁路要从凯瑟琳·巴洛家的农场经过，但巴洛一家并不愿意接受铁路建筑商的条件迁走农场，于是农场受到了建筑商所雇用的歹徒的威胁。凯瑟琳是一个有些书呆子气的女老师，她认识一个名叫席利的小混混，并认为他是西部最令迷人的火枪手。最终，她的父亲被修铁路的大资本家派来的持枪歹徒杀害，凯瑟琳悲愤不已，她发誓要和他们血战到底。她决定自己成立一个帮派，为父亲报仇。这是一个稀奇古怪的帮派，有小混混、驯马人、流浪歌手和席利这个超级离谱的枪手。最终，他们报仇成功，并且莫名其妙地成为了当地的英雄人物。

经典台词

Jackson Two-Bears:

He's a murderer, a hired killer. His nose was bit off in a fight.

Frankie Ballou:

If I was gonna be scared, I'd be scared of the fella who bit it off, not him!

[after a drunken Kid Sheleen shoots at a target on the barn]

Clay Boone:

He did it! He missed the barn!

Jackson Two-Bears:

Kid, Kid, what a time to fall off the wagon. Look at your eyes.

Kid Sheleen:

What's wrong with my eyes?

Jackson Two-Bears:

Well they're red, bloodshot.

Kid Sheleen:

You ought to see 'em from my side.

Cat:

Some gang! An Indian ranch hand, a drunken gunfighter, a sex maniac, and an uncle!

Cat:

And the first time I ask you to do something for me, like rob one little train!

Kid Sheleen:

[sniffs at the faint smell of liquor] I smell a water hole!

Cat:

Where are you staying?

Jed:

On the run, ma'am. Hiding out in a crowd.

Clay Boone:

I've never seen a man get through a day so fast.

Kid Sheleen:

Let's have a drink for old times' sake.

Butch Cassidy:

Old times' sake? That means you got no cash.

Cat:

Jackson, what's happening?

Jackson Two-Bears:

It's ghost sickness.

Cat:

What's that?

Jackson Two-Bears:

In this Indian religion, see, we believe what the gods did when they made a man crazy was they made him fall in love.

Frankie Ballou:

Well now, there's a game for a sheriff - liar's poker. We got our unemployed off the street and made Wolf City safe all in one brilliant stroke.

Clay Boone:

We can't hold up the train.

Cat:

Why not?

Clay Boone:

Lots of reasons.

Cat:

Name 'em.

Clay Boone:

We're rustlers, not train robbers.

Cat:

Well, if people didn't try something new, there wouldn't be hardly any progress at all.

Kid Sheleen:

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Yeah, it's all over in Dodge. Tombstone, too; Cheyenne, Deadwood, all gone, all dead and gone. Why, the last time I came through Tombstone, the big excitement there was about the new rollerskate rink that they had laid out over the OK Corral. I'll tell you something else, I used to work for the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and a Congress of Rough Riders. And I rescued many stagecoach passengers from road agents and drunkard injuns... in the nick of time! Twice a day, three times on Saturday.

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Frankie Ballou:

You'd like a drink better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stub, wouldn't you?

Jed:

[to Cat, on the train] Ma'am, I apologize for my disgusting condition and I assure you I will not inflict myself on you any further.

Professor Sam The Shade, The Sunrise Kid:

[both Sam The Shade and The Sunrise Kid - as narrators/singers] Round and round and round they went, 'til man and gal and beast were spent. Round and round and round they rode... Oh, what an episode!

Sir Harry Percival:

[shows her the bedroom on the train] This is the master bedroom. Do you approve?

Cat:

Oh, it's swell. A regular Tintoretto!

Cat:

Oh, look at that: a painting on the ceiling!

Sir Harry Percival:

Oh, yes. That's a Tintoretto.

Cat:

I'll say it is.

Cat:

They're trying to drive him off his ranch! They put manure in his well, they made him talk to lawyers...

Clay Boone:

What's your name, so I can vote for you in the next election?

Cat:

Jackson?

Jackson Two-Bears:

Yeah...?

Cat:

Oh, Jackson.

Cat:

[Looks at Frankie Ballou, lying in coffin]

Cat:

Why is he smiling like that? My father never smiled like that in his whole life?

Cat:

[looks in coffin again, apalled]

Undertaker:

Well, he's going to smile like that forever, now. Courtesy of the Wolf City Development Company.

Jed:

Ma'am, I can understand your objection to rustlin' - a girl with your background and gentle upbringing - but it's the only way we can raise money.

Cat:

No it's not.

Clay Boone:

Well, what do you think we ought to do that's fittin' and proper?

Cat:

Rob a train.

Jed:

Build you life anew, ma'am. This studyin' on revenge is just turnin' your back on the future and lettin' the dead past eat at your heart.

Cat:

You won't make me cry. You'll never make me cry!

[to Butch Cassidy and the Hole in the Wall Gang]

Cat:

Some gang of cutthroats and murderers. We used to whisper your names when we were kids - scared to say them out loud. How sad - you got old.

Clay Boone:

I think we'll go to St. Louis.

Cat:

St. Louis?

Clay Boone:

Yeah, St. Louis! City on the Missouri, railhead of the Santa Fe, jump off for the Oregon Trail - producers of beef, beer, shoes and, ah, good times.

Kid Sheleen:

Guns, bottles, fists, knives, clubs - it makes no difference to me. All the same to you?

Kid Sheleen:

At first you don't think you can stand to get hit, then you realize you can take it 'cause the blood don't matter. It's a great gift I'm goin' to give you - to know it don't hurt to fight!

[Jackson slugs Clay]

Clay Boone:

Well, what was that for?

Jackson Two-Bears:

Well, everyone else was doin' it. I got the right to share in the fun without regard to race, creed or color according to the Fourteenth Amendment.

Cat:

Sir Harry Percival, I presume.

Sir Harry Percival:

Really, roughing it on the frontier - how delightful!

Cat:

Oh, you like our wide open spaces?

[Cat remove her cape to reveal a very low cut dress]

Sir Harry Percival:

A little wine with music...

[Sir Harry winds his gramophone]

Sir Harry Percival:

...a little Nineteenth Century science, Stone Age atmosphere, Cave Man passion...

Cat:

I thought you were lying.

Clay Boone:

You mean I wasn't?

幕后花絮

这部影片由艾略特·西尔维斯坦执导。影片采取了传统的西部片的模式：封闭的小镇，遭到歹徒的袭击；但这次拯救众人的英雄不是一个正义感十足的硬汉，而是一个醉醺醺、有些疯疯癫癫的赖汉，而且还是由一个虽然漂亮但是书呆子气十足的女教师领导的；复仇和拯救的动作场面也是错漏百出，喜剧感十足。影片的女主角由曾两次获得奥斯卡最佳女演员奖的简·方达扮演，而那个疯癫的火枪手则由硬派小生李·马文扮演，两位一贯以正剧形象的影星在影片的喜剧场面中表现得游刃有余。两位著名的歌星Nat King Cole 和Stubby Kaye也在影片中扮演了角色，并演唱了数首插曲。

发行机构

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制作机构

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