a5c7b9f00b Ann Shelby, whose family is allied with the notorious William Quantrill, turns outlaw to revenge herself on a renegade Indian who killed her brother. When her brother is killed, Jean Shelby replaces himthe head of a gang of Confederate guerrillas. Bitter because she believes her fiancée, a captain in the Union Army, has betrayed her, she commits many depredations before she learns he was not the man responsible but, by then, it is too late. Wearing a hairstyle that looks like it belonged on Carole Lombard in a 1930&#39;s screwball comedy, film noir actress Ann Savage finds herself way out of her element. The story&#39;s not bad, but her performance is lifeless and placid. She&#39;s a bad girl seeking revenge on Chief Thudercloud whose own tribe has disowned him for unnecessary violence and obsession with vengeance against Savage&#39;s family after he unsuccessfully tried to kidnap her mother. Now they are all dead and she&#39;s made a deal with the Confederate army to scout for them while searching for Thundercloud. Along the way, she finds love with a Yankee officer but her loyalties to the south prevent her from allowing that romance to blossom.<br/><br/>This has a nice supporting cast of veteran actors, with Alan Curtisthe supposedly married YankeewellEdward Brophy and Jack Holt. Buthardshe tries, Savage is never convincing, especially being southern with a bleached blonde permanent wave. The film has a few suspenseful moments, but is often boring and ridiculous. They try hard to make savage sympathetic here, but often she comes offrather mentally challenged, and obviously suffering from bipolar disorder long before that was diagnoseda mental illness. Her melodramatic outbursts and sudden personality changes aren&#39;t even unintentionally funny. Even at 70 minutes, I just couldn&#39;t wait for this to be over. This movie sounded amusing, so I tried to watch it (very) early this morning.<br/><br/>The dialogue is wooden and stilted beyond description, and not just a line here and there, but whole scenes! The plot is no better. None of the characters are sympathetic; the heroine scowls from scene to scene, half the males in the movie seem infatuated with her for unknown reasons, but of course, the only one she shows interest in is the one who ignores her during her months-long convalescence–failing to visitpromised until a few minutes after she leaves the home where she has been nursed back to health.<br/><br/>Had I been more wakeful, it might have been a jolly experience. As it was, I fell asleep, and when I woke up, a Montel infomercial was running. Alas, I missed the ending–but I did not much care.<br/><br/>I don&#39;t think anything was cut out of it. I suspect this is just a movie that just didn&#39;t come out the way someone must have imagined it.
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