The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (Fox, 1949)

  Western farce   Today, another consonant-rich alliterative title, The Beautiful Blonde of Bashful Bend. Writer Earl Felton’s original screen story was titled The Lady from Laredo, so that was along the same euphonic lines.   Writer/director/producer Preston Sturges’s last Hollywood film was his only Western, a farce (farce defined by Webster’s as “a light […]