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Lee Marvin won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in his dual role as both Tim Strawn, a noseless (“I got it bit off in a fight”) gunslinger, and as Kid Shelleen, the drunken has-been who goes up against Strawn at high noon. Jane Fonda, at the height of her sex-kitten period, stars as Catherine “Cat” Ballou, the schoolmarm-turned-outlaw who teams with Kid to protect her father’s ranch from a greedy railroad tycoon. Beloved by critics and one of the biggest box office hits of 1965, CAT BALLOU is a marvellous spoof of Westerns - a precursor to films like PAINT YOUR WAGON, BLAZING SADDLES and other send-ups of the genre, and a one-of-a-kind comic classic thanks to the sure hand of director Elliot Silverstein.
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