Red Garters (1954)

Directed by

George Marshall

Genre

musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This movie is a musical that makes fun of western movie cliches. Characters in a fake-looking town sing and joke their way through a parody of cowboy stories. The sets are designed to look like a stage instead of a real place.

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What happens

Red Garters is a 1954 American musical Western film starring Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell. It is a musical spoof of Westerns. The director was George Marshall. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer). "[Red Garters] is a costume piece, a roguish, cheeky musical western in which anything goes. All the cliches of every western ever made are examined with humor and high spirits. [...] Red Garters has no settings in the ordinary sense; houses, trees, windows and the like are merely suggested, as on a musical stage." It has been distributed on VHS, Laserdisc, and DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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