Six years six years before she put her stamp on the role of Belle Starr, Elizabeth Montgomery played another legend of the old west and the famous outlaws. While not married to the Sundance Kid, Etta Place is forever tied with him and history and might as well have been. It is after Butch and Sundance's I'll let your death in Brazil, and through rumor, Etta learns that Sundance may have survived. She has met up with the recently released from prison minor outlaw Robert Foxworth who claimed to know Butch and Sundance, but of course, she knows he's lying. She hides her identity at first as they are together in a train car, but soon he figures out her identity. But Foxworth isn't being on the up-and-up with her, meeting on the sly with federal agents hoping to get Sundance and the surviving gang to come out of hiding if they are alive through manipulating Montgomery.
As lovely here as she was as Samantha Stevens, Montgomery is initially seen as a school teacher and finds herself the subject of a touring Western show which makes her decide that it's time to skedaddle out of town. It is on the train that she is hiding on where she encounters Foxworth (in real life her longtime companion), and they immediately square off. She proves how tough she is to him and how she can get around without being spotted by the agents who have posters of her everywhere.
It takes a bit of getting used to Montgomery in this role as she seems a bit too modern and perhaps hasn't fully escaped from her famous role at this point. But her charm is overwhelming and eventually she does grab the character, and not even having to use fagic to fool the law. A fast-moving Western with many light-hearted moments, this is well worth seeing, not necessarily as a follow-up to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" assembly for the Everlasting talents of its beautiful leading lady who would go on to greater and much darker roles on TV, soon becoming the queen of the movie of the week.
As lovely here as she was as Samantha Stevens, Montgomery is initially seen as a school teacher and finds herself the subject of a touring Western show which makes her decide that it's time to skedaddle out of town. It is on the train that she is hiding on where she encounters Foxworth (in real life her longtime companion), and they immediately square off. She proves how tough she is to him and how she can get around without being spotted by the agents who have posters of her everywhere.
It takes a bit of getting used to Montgomery in this role as she seems a bit too modern and perhaps hasn't fully escaped from her famous role at this point. But her charm is overwhelming and eventually she does grab the character, and not even having to use fagic to fool the law. A fast-moving Western with many light-hearted moments, this is well worth seeing, not necessarily as a follow-up to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" assembly for the Everlasting talents of its beautiful leading lady who would go on to greater and much darker roles on TV, soon becoming the queen of the movie of the week.