Cattle Annie and Little Britches (film)
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| Directed by | Lamont Johnson |
| Written by | David Eyre Robert Ward |
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Cattle Annie and Little Britches by Robert Ward |
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Burt Lancaster John Savage Rod Steiger Diane Lane Amanda Plummer Scott Glenn Buck Taylor |
| Music by | Sahn Berti Tom Slocum |
| Cinematography | Larry Pizer |
| Edited by | William Haugse |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Cattle Annie and Little Britches is a 1981 American Western drama film starring Burt Lancaster, Rod Steiger, Diane Lane, and Amanda Plummer, based on the lives of two adolescent girls in the late 19th century Oklahoma Territory who became infatuated with the Western outlaws that they had read about in Ned Buntline's stories and left their homes to join the criminals. It was scripted by David Eyre and Robert Ward from Robert Ward's book and directed by Lamont Johnson.
The outlaws the girls find are the demoralized remnants of the Doolin-Dalton gang, led by an historically inaccurately aged Bill Doolin (Burt Lancaster at sixty-seven). Anna Emmaline McDoulet, or Cattle Annie (Amanda Plummer), shames and inspires the men to become what she had imagined them to be. The younger sister (but historically not a relative) Jennie Stevens or Little Britches (Diane Lane) finds a father figure in Doolin, who in the story line coined her nickname "Little Britches". Doolin's efforts to live up to the girls' vision of him lead him to be carted off in a cage to an Oklahoma jail where he waits to be hanged. With the help of the girls and the gang, Doolin escapes and rides off to safety with his men. The girls are triumphant, but they cannot escape Marshal Bill Tilghman (Rod Steiger) and are sent back East to the reformatory in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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