Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Brainsbell 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.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

weezeralfalfa This 70 min. rather low budget offering from Columbia has a bit of everything. There are typical elements of westerns: Indians chasing a stagecoach, a local gang of desperados led by one of the leading citizens in disguise as 'Killer Pete', whose main goal seems to be to expand his holdings from a large ranch to businesses in town. He already has a big lean on the town saloon the Crystal Palace, which he periodically robs. As expected, Pete has a secret moll in Lola(Ann Miller), who is the chief entertainer for the Crystal Palace. Lola is contrasted with the prim classy blond Belinda or Bill for short(Penny Singleton), newly arrived from the East. She may look harmless, but she packs a mean pistol, as demonstrated in the Indian attack on the stage she and the new sheriff Tex Miller(a young Glen Ford) were riding in. Strangely, the town elders didn't seem to know about Tex, and were planning to offer 'Bill' the hazardous vacant position of sheriff. The last 4 sheriffs had been killed by Killer Pete. Bill might be a better shot than Tex, but she had no desire to take Tex's job away from him. Instead, she was satisfied keeping house for her uncle Jim, who owned the Crystal Palace, until such time that she might get married. Tex and Bill soon became romantically involved, although their initial meeting in the stage was hardly cordial, until they were forced to cooperate in fighting off the Indians. Their courtship was set back a few times when Bill accidentally hit Tex in the face with a freshly baked pie. This running gag was modified the 3rd time by Bill accidentally hitting Bill in the face with the frying pan she was using to subdue the members of Pete's gang.......The simmering relationship between Lola and Bill finally erupted into a notable cat fight, which some reviewers say was the highlight for them. ......Charles Ruggles was charismatic as Jim: Bill's uncle, reminding me of Walter Brennan, in speech and style. Onslow Stevens was tall and handsome, when his kerchief was pulled down, as Killer Bill. Allen Jenkins was appropriately humorous as the flaky deputy, who usually ran from trouble.....In the music department, Ann Miller and Penny Singleton are both decent stage singers and dancers, although their dancing styles were quite different, with Ann being a specialist in tap dancing: a skill that would be filmed many times in the future. Ann, at 18, was so young, I barely recognized her. She usually was included in films as a musical specialist or as 'the other woman', as in this film. She sings and dances to the title song, including a segment where she tap danced up and down the bar counter. Worth a second look. Later, she joins Allen Jenkins in a humorous song and dance to "I Wish I Could be a Singing Cowboy". Allen much reminded me of the dancing style of Ray Bolger(the scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz"). Penny stepped out of her usual role, in the "Blondie" series, to participate in this film. She would lead a sing along, while on horseback, to "Dogie, Take Your Time". Later, Penny led a classy stage song and dance to "Most Gentlemen Don't Prefer a Lady", with The Foursome as backups. Unlady-like, she dropped her skirt to dance in her bloomers half way through, giving her freedom to do some more athletic maneuvers. Unfortunately, her uncle Jim was not pleased, and wanted to ship her back East, until Tex expressed a marriage interest. The Foursome did a barber shop quartet-styled sing to "Somewhere along the Trial". All of the above songs were composed by the team of Sid Chaplin and Sammy Cahn. In addition, a revised "Ida Red" was sung and played by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.....See it at YouTube.

MartinHafer During the 1940s, Columbia Pictures made a ton of westerns...most of them B-movies lasting about an hour and featuring a variety of mostly small-time actors. However, occasionally they made a western that was just a bit better...and "Go West, Young Lady" is one of these. While it's about the length of many Bs, it has a better cast than usual. While Glenn Ford was not yet a top-tier actor, having him and many familiar faces in the film (Penny Singleton, Ann Miller, Charlie Ruggles and Allen Jenkins) give it a more sophisticated look than a B....making this sort of like a B+ picture!The star of the picture is Penny Singleton. She was a veteran of Bs...and in the middle of her Blondie and Dagwood series when she made this western. But she's certainly no typical western woman (at least the movie versions), as when bad guys strike, she's quick to shoot back and isn't the least bit a cowering lady! Glenn Ford is the male lead...but with such a dynamic lady starring in this one he's easily overshadowed!As for the plot, apart from Singleton's wild (and sometimes ditsy) character, it's pretty standard stuff. Some masked gunman named Killer Pete is terrorizing a town...killing sheriff after sheriff. His ultimate goal isn't robbery but to force folks to want to leave town...so he can then buy them out and become the big boss man...a very familiar western cliche.Watchable and a bit better than usual for the genre.

mark.waltz One of many variations of "Destry Rides Again", this musical western is an enjoyable piece of fiction that is about as true to the west as the pastische 1954 spoof "Red Garters". Here, Penny Singleton's Blondie becomes "Bill" (short for Belinda) whom Uncle Charlie Ruggles believes is a boy, having never met her. Penny's pretty good with a gun, too, proving her meddle with Glenn Ford, the newly appointed sheriff of the town where Ruggles runs the "Crystal Palace" while he is on his way in on the stagecoach. Handsome Glenn and Penny don't hit it off at first, as she is a bit too prim and proper to talk to a stranger she hasn't been introduced to. But when you share guns while shooting attacking Indians, you've been introduced, and by the time they arrive in town, Belinda's supportive of the new sheriff even though Uncle Charlie wanted to offer the job to "Bill".The Crystal Palace is one modern saloon where Annie Miller tap-dances decades before it became a popular form of entertainment and a masked bandit's intrusion into the customer's night of frolic is continuously followed by Ruggles' hollar of "drinks on the house" even though the till is pretty much empty after being robbed. Then, there's acting sheriff Allen Jenkins who is one of the oddest partners thunder thighs Annie ever danced with and assorted customers who may or may not be involved with the local bandit who continuously gets away with robbing the local businesses over and over again. Penny is constantly thwarting the capture of the masked bandit, confronting him for the shoot-up which caused her pie to fall then tossing it towards his face, only to pelt poor Glenn. He even gets it when she throws another pie accidentally in his face just as he is about to propose.The highlight of the film is a violent catfight between Penny and Annie which is even more riotous than the one between Dietrich and Una Merkel in "Destry Rides Again". At under 70 minutes, this speeds by with several entertaining musical numbers, including the title song as sung by Miller, another where she dances with Jenkins, and then one with Penny taking over the saloon and taking off her skirt to dance in her bloomers much to Uncle Charlie's shock. "Ida Red" as performed by Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys is a fun novelty number. So while the whole plot line is something audiences of 1941 obviously had in their recent movie going memory, there is enough entertainment here to make it a fun distraction if not a western classic.

Alan Hale (alanco) A Fun movie that will leave you wishing it had been another 45 minutes. The fight between Ann Miller and Penny Singleton is astounding! Ann Miller's Dance scenes are very good, and there is even an appearance by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. Penny was a great talent and her vaudeville experience shows. This movie even includes Glenn Ford.