Doris Day peers through layers of camera gauze to star in
The Ballad of Josie
, a second-rate variation of
Cat Ballou
. For openers, Day is arrested for the billiard-cue bludgeoning of her late husband. Upon her acquittal, she takes up sheep ranching in Wyoming. To prove herself as good as any man, Day organizes the other frontier wives into a woman's suffrage movement. She succeeds in establishing her equality, winning good-guy Peter Graves in the process.
Ballad of Josie
was produced by Norman MacDonnell, who was on firmer Western ground when he was producer of the radio and TV series
Gunsmoke
.