Long before Katniss Everdeen, there was buckskin-clad, gun-totin’ Calamity Jane – a feisty Doris Day in her finest performance. The mostly male inhabitants of dreary Deadwood drool over cigarette cards of Chicago stage star Adelaide Adams. Our heroine ‘Calam’ takes off via stagecoach to persuade Adams to perform at the local Golden Garter Saloon, but mistakenly returns with her maid. Created by Warners to capitalise on the success of MGM’s Annie Get Your Gun, Calamity Jane turned out to be, in many ways, the perfect musical – a cracking yarn, complete with cracking whips and brimming with classic songs (including ‘The Deadwood Stage’ and the Oscar®-winning ‘Secret Love’). Now digitally restored, and every one of its sumptuous Technicolor minutes is sheer joy.
Heather Osborn, Programme and Research Co-ordinator
USA 1953
Directed by David Butler
With Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyne Ann McLerie
101 min
Digital
U
A Park Circus release
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