A 1940 American Comedy-Western directed by Edward F Cline that follows a gold digger (Mae West) meeting a con man (W. C. Fields) and soon getting into some trouble.
The movie also stars Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Dick Foran, Margaret Hamilton, Donald Meek, Ruth Donnelly, Willard Robertson, Fuzzy Knight, and George Moran.
It was released on February 9, 1940.
Tropes for the film:
- Bedmate Reveal: Cuthbert J. Twillie thinks he's going to bed with Flower Belle Lee, who has snuck off and left a goat in her place. His reaction: "Godfrey Daniel! BEELZEBUB!!!"
- Injun Country: A train passing through Injun Country gets attacked by stereotypical Indian braves on horseback. Flower makes wisecracks as she guns a few down from a cabin window.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Fancily-dressed Flower Belle is on a train when Indians attack. An arrow lands two feet from her, and she nonchalantly pulls it out of the wall, goes back to filing her nails... and when a second arrow hits, she responds by mowing them down with revolvers akimbo taken from a passenger who wasn't so lucky and a shotgun borrowed from the only other person defending the train... all while uttering one-liners in her signature alluring, devil-may-care voice.
Flower Belle: There he goes, in a shower of feathers!
Gunman: Nice shootin'!
Flower Belle: I almost broke one of my fingernails.
Gunman: Nice shootin'!
Flower Belle: I almost broke one of my fingernails.
- Plot-Based Voice Cancellation: A train whistle is used to cover up that the main characters never actually pronounced their marriage vows.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Flower Belle, a glamorous lady in Chicago, calmly shoots down Natives attacking a train.
- Tagline: "It's the lafftime of a lifetime!...as "Wild Bill" Fields tries to tame the West!".
