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Sexylocher Masterful Movie

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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

mark.waltz Wearing a hairstyle that looks like it belonged on Carole Lombard in a 1930's screwball comedy, film noir actress Ann Savage finds herself way out of her element. The story's not bad, but her performance is lifeless and placid. She's a bad girl seeking revenge on Chief Thudercloud whose own tribe has disowned him for unnecessary violence and obsession with vengeance against Savage's family after he unsuccessfully tried to kidnap her mother. Now they are all dead and she'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.This has a nice supporting cast of veteran actors, with Alan Curtis as the supposedly married Yankee as well as Edward Brophy and Jack Holt. But as hard as she 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 off as rather mentally challenged, and obviously suffering from bipolar disorder long before that was diagnosed as a mental illness. Her melodramatic outbursts and sudden personality changes aren't even unintentionally funny. Even at 70 minutes, I just couldn't wait for this to be over.

MartinHafer Okay, I know my summary is harsh, but it is direct and to the point. Even for a cheap B-western, "Renegade Girl" is a bad film—filled with clichés and atrocious writing…really atrocious.The film is set during the waning years of the Civil War. Like so many westerns made during the era, this one involves Quantrill's Raiders—a group of terrorists who fought for the South and who were even hated in the South by many since they pretty much ignored the rules of war at that time. In particular, they attacked Northern towns and targeted civilians. Yet, oddly, this film portrays them as the good guys! Now that's a first.The main focus, however, is not Quantrill but a very anachronistic and overly butch lady. Sporting a 1940s perm and acting like the clichéd western macho dame, she is all fire and emotion. And, she seems to switch her mind from one minute to the next. For example, she helps Quantrill and her brother (one of Quantrill's men)—yet soon after meeting a handsome Yankee officer, she completely abandons her cause and suddenly sees her compatriots as the bad guys! What a flake! Then, after she is injured by a nasty Native, she is saved by this Yankee. Yet, when he leaves her to be cared for, when she awakens she announces that she now HATES him!!! What is with this lady—is she off her medication?!?! Most of the rest of the film is pretty bad as well—filled with bad writing and confusing plot elements. In fact, I absolutely hated the film—and I normally like B-westerns and cut them a lot of slack (although they were cheap, they were usually very entertaining….unlike this film). Not worth your time. But if you are crazy enough to want to see it, this is a public domain film from tiny Robert Lippert Productions. You can follow the links on IMDb and download your own legal copy. Although why you would is beyond me now that you've been warned.

Johnboy1221 This is not really a western as much as it's a showcase for it's star, pretty Ann Savage, who does a credible job of acting.Unfortunately, she's the only real reason to watch this film.I knew this was a cheesy movie as soon as the renegade Indian threw his knife into her brother Bob's body, thereby killing him, and the knife just disappeared from sight. Jeez, a disappearing knife! Later, for whatever reason, the rebels start shooting one another, but the director shot the entire scene by focusing on their heads! Yeah, how weird is that? I guess that everyone died of fright, since no one obviously took a bullet. What kind of western is this, I thought? Even during the early days of westerns, the old programers showed people get shot or stabbed...and this film was made in 1946!!!! Then, our heroine stumbles into the woods, and faints under a tree....and stays there all night!!! What a renegade! The ending is just as truncated, and woundless, as the rest of the film....and extremely melodramatic. I was glad when it was over. I wasted a lot of my precious time watching this drivel. Don't you.

bsmith5552 "Renegade Girl" was an early effort from the Lippert Company directed by veteran William A. Berke. It contains plenty of action and has many sexual innuendos, risky for the time and for a "B" western.Jean Shelby (Ann Savage) is using her charms to aid the south during the Civil War. The Yankees are seeking her brother Bob (James Martin) who is a Rebel officer. Major Barker (Jack Holt) questions Jean and renegade Chief White Cloud (Chief Thundercloud) and sends out a patrol to find her brother. Jean meets Captain Fred Raymond (Alan Curtis and is attracted to him.Jean manages to get Bob away from the family ranch. On her way to the camp of William Quantrill (Ray Corrigan), Bob becomes weak and Jean is forced to leave him on the roadside while she goes for help. Meanwhile White Cloud murders Bob Shelby. White Cloud and his band then raid the Shelby ranch and murder Jean's parents. She vows revenge. She also manages to save Raymond from Quantrill's gang along the way.Jean is shot by White Cloud and taken to Dr. Manson's (Forrest Taylor) home where she is cared for by his daughter Mary (Claudia Drake). In the meantime Capt. Raymond has been imprisoned by the rebels and jean thinks that he has abandoned her. After she recovers and after the war, she joins up with the remnants of Quantrill's gang and takes on the identity of Marie Carroll and rides with them on various raids. She joins on the condition that the gang make White Cloud their number one priority. she also promises to "marry" the one who leads her to the Indian.Raymond is released from prison and returns to find that Jean has gone. We learn that the most amorous of the outlaws, Jerry Long (Russell Wade) a rebel, had withheld letters from Raymond to Jean for his own gain. Anyway Jean finally tracks down White Cloud and..............This little opus is blessed with a cast of recognizable veteran players. In addition to those already mentioned, Edward Brophy, Dick Curtis, Ernie Adams, and Harry Cording play various raiders and John "Dusty" King, Edmund Cobb and Kermit Maynard appear as Union soldiers.Ann Savage had a brief career in the 40s and fifties as a sort of poverty row femme fatale. "Detour" (1945) immediately comes to mind. She plays a femme fatale in this film as well and although the sexual suggestions are subdued due to censorship, there is little doubt left as to how she gets her way and survives among the gang.Ray "Crash" Corrigan and John "Dusty" King had been two thirds of Monogram's "Range Busters" in the early 40s. For King, this was his final film. Corrogan's career was virtually over at this point too, although he continued to appear in relatively minor roles for the next ten years or so.Ambitious little western film Noire.