Overview - The Marshal's Daughter

Overview

To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass named Laurie Anders, was in 1953 a popular TV personality. A regular on The Ken Murray Show, Anders had risen to fame with the Southern-fried catchphrase "Ah love the wi-i-i-ide open spaces!" Striking while the iron was hot, the entrepreneurial Murray produced this inexpensive oater, which cast Anders as Laurie Dawson, the singing daughter of a U.S. marshal (Hoot Gibson). Teaming with her dad to capture outlaw Trigger Gans (Bob Duncan), Laurie briefly disguises herself as a masked bandit. Amidst much stock footage from earlier westerns and a plethora of lame jokes and dreadful puns, The Marshal's Daughter is a treat for trivia buffs, featuring such virile actors as Preston S. Foster, Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Buddy Baer as "themselves."

Cast

• Name: Laurie Anders

  Character: Laurie Dawson

  Popularity: 0.1334

  

• Name: Hoot Gibson

  Character: Marshal Ben Dawson

  Popularity: 0.5942

  

• Name: Ken Murray

  Character: 'Smiling Billy' Murray

  Popularity: 0.5075

  

• Name: Preston Foster

  Character: Preston Foster - Poker-Game Player

  Popularity: 0.7446

  

• Name: Johnny Mack Brown

  Character: Johnny Mack Brown - Poker-Game Player

  Popularity: 0.6487

  

• Name: Jimmy Wakely

  Character: Jimmy Wakely - Poker-Game Player

  Popularity: 0.4517

  

• Name: Buddy Baer

  Character: Buddy Baer - Poker Game Player

  Popularity: 0.5936

  

• Name: Harry Lauter

  Character: Russ Mason

  Popularity: 0.7169