Dakota Lil (1950) DVD-R

Starring George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Marie Windsor, John Emery,
Wallace Ford, Jack Lambert
Directed by Lesley Selander

Print: color
Runtime: 88 min.
Genre: western
Print Quality: B

Although Marie Windsor plays the title role in Dakota Lil, she is shunted
away to third billing, right after male leads George Montgomery and Rod
Cameron. Montgomery is cast as a secret service agent Tom Horn, sent
West to round up a gang of counterfeiters. He starts by gaining the
confidence of dance-hall girl Lil (Windsor), one of the ringleaders. She, in
turn, leads Horn to the brains of the operation, Harve Logan
(Cameron). When Lil finds out that Horn is a Fed, she's tempted to fill him
full of holes; instead, having fallen in love with him, she tries to help him
get the goods on Logan. Dakota Lil was based on a story by Frank Gruber,
later one of the leading lights of the TV-western craze.