Go West, Young Lady
Go West, Young Lady is a 1941 American comedy western about Belinda “Bill” Pendergast, a young woman who can shoot and wants to be the town’s sheriff. The town of Headstone is tired of robberies by the outlaw Killer Pete, and Bill proves she can handle a gun on a stage to Headstone.
Jim Pendergast learns Bill is a girl and lets her serve as sheriff, even though many townspeople doubt a woman can do the job. Tex Miller, a stage passenger who likes Bill, asks for her hand in marriage, but danger from Pete’s gang keeps getting in the way. Jim discovers Pete is really Tom Hannegan, a wealthy rancher, who uses Lola the saloon dancer as his girlfriend. Lola clashes with Bill, who ends up staying and even taking Lola’s place on stage.
Bill, with help from Judge Harmon, Hank, and other women in town, warns the posse and arranges a defense against Pete’s plan to loot Headstone. In the final showdown, Bill and the town’s women battle Pete’s gang with pots and pans while the posse arrives. They capture the outlaws, and Tex, accidentally hit with a frying pan during the chaos, jokes that he’ll just have to get used to it.
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