The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch

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The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
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GenreComedy
Romance
Western
Written by Earl W. Wallace
Directed by Philip Leacock
Starring Priscilla Barnes
Joan Collins
Lee Horsley
Donny Osmond
Morgan Brittany
Lisa Whelchel
Howard Duff
Music by Frank De Vol
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers Aaron Spelling
Douglas S. Cramer
ProducerShelley Hull
CinematographyRichard L. Rawlings
EditorPatrick Kennedy
Running time100 minutes
Production company Aaron Spelling Productions
Original release
Network ABC
ReleaseOctober 31, 1982 (1982-10-31)

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch is a 1982 American made-for-television Western romantic comedy film directed by Philip Leacock and starring Priscilla Barnes, Lee Horsley, Joan Collins, Donny Osmond, Morgan Brittany, and Lisa Whelchel. Executive produced by Aaron Spelling, it premiered on ABC on October 31, 1982, and was later syndicated to cable television for rebroadcast. [1]

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Synopsis

In Civil War-era Southern Missouri, Dr. Maggie McCullough travels to the aid of her ailing aunt, Annie, the town's madame, in the lovely community of Sweetwater. With all of the men away at war, Maggie coordinates a truce between Aunt Annie's girls and the respectable women of the town. While Maggie contemplates the love triangle that is formed with an injured Union fighter, Frank Isaacs, and a captured Confederate doctor, Captain John Cane, a demented faction of soldiers invades Sweetwater and the women must spring into action to defend their homes.

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Reception

Reviewing the film in the present day, Jim McLennan writes:

From a modern perspective, perhaps the most unusual thing is seeing the Union soldiers (with the exception of Frank) portrayed as the villains of the piece. These days, the Confederate flag is basically the same thing as the swastika, yet the movie seems perfectly happy to accept that there were basically decent people on both sides. Pointedly, at the end, nobody mentions who won the war, because that's not important – just that it's over. Though on the other hand, there is literally not a single non-Caucasian in the entire movie. It's flat-out impossible to imagine any depiction of the Civil War like this being made nowadays, making it a period piece almost as much as the era it represents. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch". IMDb . October 31, 1982.
  2. ↑ McLennan, Jim. "The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch". GirlsWithGuns.org. Girls With Guns : Home of the Action Heroine. Retrieved May 19, 2023.
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