The Maverick Queen (1956)

A saloon owner (Barbara Stanwyck) works with "The Wild Bunch" which includes Butch Cassidy (Howard Petrie) and the Sundance Kid (Scott Brady) in rustling cattle and robbing trains. But when a handsome stranger (Barry Sullivan) enters her life, her world goes topsy turvy. Barbara Stanwyck made no secret that she loved doing westerns, they were her favorite genre to make. That might explain why she did so many of them, seven in the 1950s alone. But perhaps her fondness for the western might have clouded her judgment over the scripts or why else would she do a routine Republic oater which signals where it's going every step of the way? It's not a bad western, just mediocre and a waste of her talent. That being said, if you're a fan of the genre, it's an amiable if forgettable entry. The kind of movie where a few years later, you can't remember if you've seen it. Directed by Joseph Kane with a generic Victor Young underscore. With Mary Murphy, Wallace Ford, Jim Davis and Emile Meyer.