YMMV / The Legend of Frenchie King

• Angst? What Angst?: Louise is more bemused than angsty at recalling her father's "brutal hanging".
• Critic-Proof: The movie was hated by critics, but did very well at the box office (in fact, it was Brigitte Bardot's biggest commercial hit since Viva Maria!, six years before). Nowadays, it enjoys a small cult following.
• Follow the Leader: Though separated by six years and being pretty different from each other under the surface, this often gets accused of trying to emulate Viva Maria!'s success to some degree.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A total badass slept with several women and fathered a lot of children who all turned out to be female before he died brutally. This sentence accurately describes both Frenchie King Senior and his five daughters (the Lerois), and Oberyn Martell and the Sand Snakes from A Song of Ice and Fire.
• I Am Not Shazam: Too many plot summaries give the impression that Frenchie King really is Louise's name, not her Red Baron.
• Just Here for Godzilla: A lot of people doubtlessly watch it just to see Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Cardinale in one film.
• Les Yay:
  • Louise doesn't share her sisters' interest in finding a man. She's also very intent in dealing with Maria herself, while leaving the brothers to her sisters.
  • After their first meeting, Louise watches Maria leave while biting her lip and then appears to let out a little sigh. (Note that this moment is in the French version, but not the English one, where Louise's expression is more unambiguously hostile/annoyed.)
  • The "Prairie Woman" scene is especially homoerotic since it consists of Maria singing, stripping down to her corset and taunting Louise, who's watching with a strangely bothered look. Her sisters even silently tease her about it.
  • When they collapse at the end of their Cat Fight, Maria ends up with her head resting against Louise's torso and an arm slung over her.
  • The ending has a shot of Louise in her black outfit with Maria riding at her side in an equivalent white one that's more flowing due to having a longcoat, making them look like a couple at a wedding, especially as they are at the head of their just-married siblings.
• Misaimed Fandom: Frequently touted as a feminist movie, despite the fact that no such movie would have the amount of obviously male-oriented Fanservice that this has.
• Moe:
  • Maria in pigtails, or in the blue dress and the flower hat. It helps that she's played by Claudia Cardinale.
  • Elisabet. She's the youngest of Louise's sisters, and looks comparatively fragile.
  • Little Rain. Blue eyes, squeaky voice, has 'Little' in her name.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Micheline Presle plays aunt Amelie and has the fourth biggest billing. She only shows up in the saloon scene, when Maria goes to ask her for money.
  • The old guy extra who goes nuts during "Prairie Girl" tends to be noted.
• Signature Scene: The Cat Fight.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: Given how Louise and Maria's rivalry is the main selling point, them not meeting until the 30-minute mark (that's a whole third of the movie!) could be seen as this.
• Values Dissonance: Back when it was first released, it was rated the equivalent of an R everywhere. Today, home video releases, at least in Europe (specifically Italy, France, Germany, Iceland, probably more), get a "suitable for all audiences" rating, despite the rather long Cat Fight and one instance of a woman flashing her breasts. It remains R in the US.

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