Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

coolcat01 What a rip! The title of this film is totally misleading. Jane Fonda is fine - as usual - nothing special!

Martin Bradley This spoof western won Lee Marvin the Oscar for Best Actor but considering the opposition included Riichard Burton in "The Spy who came in from the Cold", Laurence Olivier in "Othello", Rod Steiger in "The Pawnbroker" and Oscar Werner in "Ship of Fools" perhaps giving Marvin the Oscar was overly generous. The film itself is highly enjoyable, a good follow-on from the Bob Hope spoofs and a nice precursor of "Blazing Saddles". It's got a good script from Walter Newman and Frank Pierson, lively direction from Elliot Silverstein and best of all, a first-rate cast that includes Jane Fonda, excellent in the title role of "Cat Ballou", Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Tom Nardini, John Marley and as the balladeers Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye. It could be funnier I admit but it is also a very hard film to dislike.

gridoon2018 "Cat Ballou" is ostensibly a comedy, but there are long stretches without any laughs. In some of those stretches sad (instead of funny) things happen; in others, the film tries for laughs but fails. The photography is nice, Jane Fonda is stunning, the songs by Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye (functioning like a sort of Greek Chorus) are catchy, but the film on the whole is a misfire. Tom Nardini is very likable as the Indian, but the other two male leads are interchangeable, and Lee Marvin gives an amusing though hardly Oscar-caliber performance. Hey, a lot of people swear by this film, so you may well enjoy it - I didn't. ** out of 4.

Neil Welch There have been other comedy westerns since Cat Ballou, and I suppose that there were comedy moments in other westerns before, especially musicals. But Cat Ballou was unusual in the way it played so much for laughs within the framework of a traditional western, and also in the way linking narration was provided by an on-screen singing Greek chorus in the shapes of Stubby Kaye and Nat "King" Cole.Jane Fonda does an excellent job as the central character, playing the comedy absolutely straight (as she did so effectively a couple of years later in Barbarella), but the film is totally stolen by Lee Marvin in twin roles. His Tim Strawn is truly sinister (helped enormously by Frank DeVol's superb music cues), but the drunk Kid Shelleen is the part in which he shines: it might well have been written for Marvin, for it plays to all his strengths.This film is great fun.