Frontier Gal

Frontier Gal (1945)

"What's your pleasure, Stranger?"

Johnny Hart is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont. The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.

Date of release
1945-12-14
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Romance, Western
Director
Charles Lamont

Casting

Interesting facts

Frontier Gal is a 1945 American Western film directed by Charles Lamont and starring Yvonne De Carlo and Rod Cameron.

Production

The film was to have starred Maria Montez and Rod Cameron. In April 1945 Montez refused to play the role.

She was replaced by Yvonne De Carlo who had just played her first leading role in Salome, Where She Danced. De Carlo says Montez turned down the role because she did not want to work with Rod Cameron and did not want to play the mother of a young girl. De Carlo later wrote "the studio knew I would play opposite Rin Tin Tin if they told me to, and would gladly agree to be the mother of the seven dwarfs."

The main villain role was meant to be played by Peter Coe. He had just received a medical discharge for the Marine Corps, and Universal became worried he was not up to it, so the role was given to Alan Curtis. Then Curtis refused to play the role and he was replaced by Sheldon Leonard.

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