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It's an excellent film in spite of the facts that they disliked each other but were professionals on camera. A legendary pairing up of 2 screen icons. Funniest "gags" included: Their meeting on the train and fake marriage. Mae West as a schoolteacher teaching "good little boys how to be real good". The "marriage" is never "consumated" and she puts a goat in the bed! (Not as risqué as it sounds.) Many plot ideas used here were recycled in several newer comic westerns, including "Paleface", "The Harvey Girls" and "The Shakiest Gun in the West". Main plot: Mae West has to marry the no-good gambler (Fields) so she can become respectable and not get run out of town by Margret Hamilton. There is also a masked "kissing bandit" and gun-play. (Mae West picks off "them Indians" like she's in a shootin' gallery.) Both stars were well past their prime and most noticeably W.C. Fields. Stunt doubles used throughout. Her best film was actually "I'm No Angel" and his best was either "It's a Gift" or "The Bank Dick", depending on your personal taste. A very clever exchange of signature "lines" at the very end of the movie between Mae West and W.C. Fields. "Drat"!
score 9/10
mike48128 30 August 2015
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