| 1 | * ActingForTwo: Creator/LeeMarvin plays the washed-up gunfighter, Kid Shelleen, and the hired killer Tim Strawn. |
| 2 | * ContractualObligationProject: Creator/JaneFonda reportedly didn't understand the film when she read the script, but because she was under contract to Creator/ColumbiaPictures at the time, she had no choice but to take the role of Cat Ballou. |
| 3 | * HostilityOnTheSet: While Creator/LeeMarvin's drunken antics kept most of the cast and crew laughing, it didn't make a fan out of Creator/JaneFonda, who had the job of playing her character straight while the others got to ham it up, and took her role very seriously. Too seriously for Marvin, who according to Dwayne Hickman, was always trying to joke with her and make her lighten up. Hickman recalls that Fonda was "less than enthusiastic about the movie. She wanted to do more serious work and playing straight man to a bunch of crazy characters wasn't her idea of great filmmaking." Marvin's efforts to loosen her up were met with annoyance from Fonda. It didn't help their relationship either that Marvin insulted her French husband Roger Vadim while he was visiting the location set in Colorado. "When he was drunk," said Vadim in his 1986 memoir ''Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda'', "he would tell me that he hated the French. 'But,' he would add, 'I like you because you're half Russian, even though I hate Russians also.'" |
| 4 | * MidDevelopmentGenreShift: In 1956 the film was originally announced as a musical to star Creator/BurtLancaster and Creator/TonyCurtis as the brothers. |
| 5 | * MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: As she was sharing time between France and Hollywood at the time, Creator/JaneFonda dubbed herself in the French-speaking version. |
| 6 | * PlayingAgainstType: Creator/LeeMarvin both plays against type and according to his normal TypeCasting in the film, giving a comic and heroic performance as the alcoholic Kid Shelleen in contrast to his usual villainous performance in the smaller role of the evil Tim Strawn. Thanks to this display of versatility, he won an Oscar for the role(s). |
| 7 | * StarMakingRole: Though Creator/JaneFonda has been noticed since the early 1960s, this movie put her on the map. |
| 8 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 9 | ** Creator/KirkDouglas turned down the role of Shelleen. Creator/JackPalance desperately wanted the role but was never offered it. Creator/JoseFerrer was also considered. |
| 10 | ** Creator/UrsulaAndress, Creator/CarrollBaker, Creator/BrigitteBardot, Creator/JoanCollins, Creator/DianaDors, Creator/KimNovak, Creator/JayneMansfield, Creator/LeeRemick, Creator/DebbieReynolds, and Creator/MamieVanDoren were all considered for the title role. |
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