Outlaw Women (1952)

A town called Las Mujeres is run by women led by a tough broad called Iron Mae (Marie Windsor, who else?) who runs the town with an iron fist. But when two different men, one an outlaw (Richard Avonde) and the other an ex-boyfriend (Richard Rober) challenge her autonomy, something's got to give. Inspired by the Greek myth of the Amazon women, this "B" western gets by on its less than modest poverty row intentions. Filmed in an inferior color process called Cinecolor and with a hideously inappropriate score by Walter Greene (the main title sounds like circus music and a robbery sequence sounds like a Broadway musical's overture), the film is more enjoyable than it has a right to be. At times, it seems a satire in spite of itself. This being 1952 however, Windsor's character is treated like a freak and inevitably, she sees the light that it's a man's world though the film's last shot indicates a twinkle in that concept. Directed by Sam Newfield. With Jackie Coogan and Maria Hart, quite amusing as an attractive yet butch lady bouncer who lights matches by striking them across her teeth.