Bullwhip

1958
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1h 20m

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Rhonda Fleming and Guy Madison in Bullwhip (1958)

Classical Western Crime Drama Romance Western

In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead.In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead.In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead.

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5.2/10

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Trivia
Guy Madison often shaved his chest for "beefcake" scenes, but when he takes his shirt off here, his chest hair--and there's a lot of it--is clearly evident.

Goofs
During the exterior shot of the judge opening the front door of the Sheriff's office and entering, followed by Julia and Pine Hawk, we see that behind the door is a corridor with a flight of stairs on the left leading upward. In the next interior shot, we see them now entering the Sheriff's office through the front door, but that it is one room, with no sign of any flight of stairs, let alone a corridor.

Connections
Featured in The Wonder Years: Angel (1988)

Soundtracks
Bullwhip
Music and Lyrics by Hal Hopper and James Griffith
Sung by Frankie Laine

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6/10

As their interests dictate

Bullwhip casts Guy Madison as a man with an interesting predicament. He got framed for a murder that was self defense by Judge Don Beddoe working with Rhonda Fleming the mixed racial owner and boss of a freight line. She's got a huge advantage over her competitors being the daughter of a Cheyenne chief her wagons get safe passage through their territory.

But she also by the terms of her father's will has to have a husband in order to inherit the company. So poor Madison gets framed for a murder and then gets a signed release from Beddoe.

After that there's any number of people who want to see Madison alive or dead as their interests dictate. And there are some whose views change as far as Madison is concerned one of them being Fleming. As for Guy now that he's married he wants to assert his marital prerogatives in all fields. That especially works with the Cheyenne given their alpha male point of view.

Rhonda Fleming does well in a part that I'm sure was written with Barbara Stanwyck in mind. Though I doubt their are not too many mixed bloods that have her distinctive titian tresses.

In spite of a really stupid title song sung by Frankie Laine over the opening credits Bullwhip is a good little western with memorable supporting performances by Don Beddoe as one crooked and roguish judge and James Griffith as a gunman with shifting loyalties. Fans of the stars will approve.