Go West, Young Lady (1941)

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Rip-roaring Western-Musical that is fast-paced fun all taking place in the small Wild West town of Headstone where a bad man known as "Killer Pete" has killed four previous sheriffs and regularly ransacks the town of it's loot. Enter the new sheriff, a handsome bloke named Tex Miller (Glenn Ford), and the new gal about town, Belinda "Bill" Pendergast (Penny Singleton), just arrived from the east where she attended a "young ladies seminary" and, oddly enough, can out-handle most men with a gun. Tex and Bill met on the wagon into town, shot some Indians on the way in, and soon are thinking about getting married - except she can't stop accidentally throwing pies in his face. Meanwhile Bill moves in with her Uncle who lives above the saloon/dance hall and gets into some tussles with saloon dancing girl, Lola (Ann Miller).With entertaining musical numbers featuring singing cowboys, a Barbershop quartet, Ann Miller performing a tap-dancing number on top of the bar, Allen Jenkins as a somewhat cowardly deputy who also sings and a dances (a little) - - not to mention a knock-down, drag-out, full-fledged "cat fight" between the two women, a big finale where the women of the town get the best of some bad men via the use of mops, brooms, and a big cast-iron frying pan, and Glenn Ford at the peak of his most young and gorgeous here, this proves to be a pleasantly fun and humorous watch.

This Columbia B puts a ballsier (at least gun totin') Blondie Dagwood out west being woo'ed by a really young Glenn Ford, already into his 11th picture here. This is part-melodrama, part musical (complete with an anachronistic swing number in the dance hall), part comedy. It's got Ann Miller as the bad guy's dancin' moll, Lola (this isn't a spoiler!)--- all wrapped up into a weird western with Charlie Ruggles doing a Foghorn Leghorn-meets-Colonel Sanders schtick. Very, very weird, but well produced. And you should see Allen Jenkins dance. He's no Fred Astaire, but he can cut a rug better than anyone might expect. Glenn Ford had to be disappointed in the direction of his career at this point, but to be fair there's worse ways to waste time than watching Go West, Young Lady (try watching a Bob Custer talkie and see what I mean).

This is not a comment- rather, I would like to point out a goof: When Penny Singleton and Ann Miller are having their cat fight towards the end of the movie (incidentally, one of the all-time great cat fights) it really looks like those girls are belting each other), Ann Miller's blouse buttons and unbuttons during the scrimmaging.But, as long as I am here... This was a truly enjoyable western. Glen Ford is actually funny in this movie, and the relationship between him and Penny Singleton is very well developed and quite touching, in an amusingly innocent sort of way (inotherwords, exactly the opposite of most movies today). The rise of the townswomen to thwart the evildoers plans is also very well done.This is a rare western comedy that actually delivers some jocular moments. I've seen it three times, and enjoyed it all three times. And, if it comes on the Westerns Channel again when my boy is home from school or doesn't have practice or a game, We'll watch it together.It's just a fun movie. period.

A pleasant, diverting, fast-paced, unpretentious musical Western. Shown frequently on commercial TV in the late '50s and '60s, it seems to have disappeared. Will someone at Columbia Pictures please stop promoting their 2001 mega-budget stinkers and instead preserve and re-release their past glorious unsung treasures (such as "Go West, Young Lady") and make them available on cable-TV and videotape.This "B"-unit film is an unalloyed delight. A precursor of such later films as "Calamity Jane" & "7 Brides for 7 Brothers". Penny Singleton is adorably ditzy as the heroine, Glenn Ford honed his comic skills as "the tenderfoot" and sparkling Ann Miller as the tart-tongued saloon-singer steals the show. The Sammy Cahn score is a treat, and Annie's tip-tapping with Allen Jenkins singing "I Wish That I could Be a Singing Cowboy" is one of the many highlights of this unique lark of a film.Good, rousing, old-fashioned fun--packed into a tight 70 minutes!