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The Ballad of Josie is a 1967 Technicolor American comedy Western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Doris Day, Peter Graves, and George Kennedy. It humorously tackles 1960s themes of feminism in a traditional Western setting.
The Ballad of Josie: Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. With Doris Day, Peter Graves, George Kennedy, Andy Devine. A widow stirs things up in a western town by raising sheep instead of cattle--and by organizing the local women to demonstrate for women's suffrage.
Josie Minick is acquitted for accidentally killing her drunken husband; nevertheless, her 8-year-old son, Luther, is taken to Cheyenne to be cared for by her wealthy father-in-law, Alpheus Minick.
Recently acquitted for the accidental death of her abusive, alcoholic husband, Josie Minick (Doris Day) attempts to rejuvenate her dilapidated ranch with insurance money and fails.
- Western, Comedy
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Josie Minick is a widow who is forced to fend for herself in the Wyoming Territory. As she lives in cattle country, she finds herself at odds, then at all-out war, with the cattlemen of the town when she happens upon the idea to make a sheep farm her livelihood, then determines to make it happen.
A frontier widow aims to raise sheep despite a cattle rancher in old Wyoming.
