Rating: - The original Scarface...
Nothing positive can be said about the film "The Ballad of Little Jo", ranging from the lack of character development, to the pathetic attempt for a score, all the way to the shambled efforts to question sexual preference during the settlement era - this film coughed, wheezed, and ached from start to finish. As an audience participant attempting to follow the rampant misuse of A to B to C connective following, I have to merely shake my head and cower in fear. "The Ballad of Little Jo" tried, perhaps too energetically, to tell the story of a woman scored by the world and her attempts to live haphazardly in a male dominated society. As the trailer concludes, the only roles for women during this period were wives or sexual fiends, and well, as you may have already guessed - Little Jo wanted to be neither. So, she randomly scars herself, dresses as a man, mines for gold, lives a solitary life, until near the end ... Read More
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I really liked this film - very interesting crossing of sexual roles - Chinaman is the housewife; Little Jo performs all the masculine tasks.
Rating: - Scenery and substance
Loved this movie first because it was filmed around Red Lodge, Montana--where I lived for many years.The vistas are beautiful. Loved it more watching it again because it's a good story about frontier life for a woman.
Rating: - The Real Wild West....
Great film, truthfully showing a fragment of what the times were like for women (and anyone who wasn't a white male!). Beautifully protrayed by the actors. Excellent story if you are really interested the history of women, the old west, or how far we really have come in our values.
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