The Iron Mistress

The Iron Mistress (1952)

JIM BOWIE...a man with his name on a knife - and a woman with a weapon all her own!

In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.

Date of release
1952-11-19
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
History, Drama, Action, Western, Romance
Director
Gordon Douglas

Casting

Interesting facts

The Iron Mistress is a 1952 American Western film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo and Phyllis Kirk

Production

Paul Wellman's bestselling novel The Iron Mistress was published in 1951. The Los Angeles Times called the book "a rattling good story" and The New York Times called it "an excellent quasi fictional biography from that skein of tangled legend and fact".

Warner Bros. bought the film rights to the novel and Errol Flynn was mentioned as a possible star. However, Alan Ladd, who had recently signed a contract with the studio, read a copy of the novel and wanted to appear in the film adaptation.

During filming, a fire swept through the Warner Bros. lot, but the unit for Iron Mistress was on location at the time.

Ladd injured his knee during the shoot and broke his hand on the last day of filming.

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