The Black Whip (1956) DVD-R

Starring Hugh Marlowe, Coleen Gray, Adele Mara, Angie Dickinson,
Richard Gilden
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren

Print: black/white
Runtime: 81 min.
Genre: western
Print Quality: B

After closing down his film studio, producer Robert L. Lippert took charge
of Regal Films, a subsidiary of 20th Century-Fox designed to turn out
low-budget, non-CinemaScope productions. One of the first of these films
was the modest western The Black Whip. Colleen Gray, Angie Dickinson,
Adele Mara and Dorothy Schuyler play four women of questionable morals
who conspire to help a notorious outlaw escape the law. The ladies are
ushered into a stagecoach by the village elders and ordered to get out of
town and stay out. En route to their next destination, the ladies' coach
breaks down at a way station managed by Hugh Marlowe. As Marlowe
repairs the wheels, an outlaw gang rides up, demanding that the girls be
handed over to them. By this time, the ladies have no use for the bad
guys, but Marlowe is too mild-mannered to intervene. He finally outfoxes
the villains by using brains instead of brawn.