Bad Girls

In the western Bad Girls, the novel element is that four women claim the lead roles, but apart from that everything is business as usual, for the girls ride, shoot and drink just as well as any other western hero. Something tells me that the film is not particularly realistic, for it does not tell the story of what women's lot really was in the Wild West. Only a few could survive as outlaws, at any rate.

In a brothel in the western backwater of Echo, the prostitute Cody comes to the aid of her colleague Anita when a customer molests her. It ends in a killing, and Cody only narrowly escapes the gallows when her three friends Anita, Eileen and Lilly free her. The foursome flee the town with men from the Pinkerton detective agency hot on their heels, for Cody shot a powerful man.

The women dream of a respectable and independent life. They decide to make the dream a reality, but the bounty on Cody's head is a hindrance, and so is the bandit leader Kid Jarrett. Kid is Cody's former lover, who has not forgiven her for running away from him. It ends in a violent showdown between Cody's girls and Kid's gang, but all the bad girls survive, of course.

The plot is entirely traditional, perhaps a little flimsy, but it entertains nicely.