The King and Four Queens

1956

Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Western

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 36% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 36% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 2196 2.2K

widow con man

Plot summary

Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.

Director

Raoul Walsh Photo
Raoul Walsh

Top cast

Clark Gable Photo
Clark Gable as Dan Kehoe
Jay C. Flippen Photo
Jay C. Flippen as Bartender of Rosebud Saloon in Touchstone
Jo Van Fleet Photo
Jo Van Fleet as Ma McDade
Jean Willes Photo
Jean Willes as Ruby McDade
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771.42 MB
1280*546
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 2
1.4 GB
1920*820
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rmax304823 6 / 10

Gable Leaves Hormonal Path.

Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 7 / 10

What you need is a rooster!

The King and Four Queens is directed by Raoul Walsh and written by Margaret Fits and Richard Alan Simmons. It stars Clark Gable, Jo Van Fleet, Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols and Sara Shane. A CinemaScope/DeLuxe Color production, music is by Alex North and cinematography by Lucien Ballard.Utterly delightful froth! Plot essentially finds Gable as a crafty drifter who learns about a group of women holed up in a ghost town who are sitting on a hoard of stolen gold. The four beauties, and their tough as old boots mother-in-law, are the wives and mother of outlaw brothers who stole the gold but who are now all presumed dead. Gable romances the four dames with the intention of locating the gold and clearing off first chance he gets, but that is far easier sounding than it is in principal!It's all a set-up for a tale of sexual frustration and subversion of male dominance. That the Production Code renders much of the narrative to suggestion, choice scripting and fill in the gaps ourselves moments, is unfortunately a given, but it's all played with a glint in its eye and there's still a cheekiness, a sexiness, about the picture that strikes the right chords. Sometimes it's an uneasy blend of drama and comedy, but when it hits its straps, such as a wonderful dance sequence, it has the quality to land the smile firmly on your face. And this even if the final is somewhat an anti-climax.Production wise it's a beauty. The cast are having a great old time of it, with the four younger ladies revelling in flirting about with the older and distinguished Gable. But it's Van Fleet who owns the movie, her tough old buzzard act is laced with maternal sadness and stoic strength and it underpins the whole story. Ballard's colour photography is gorgeous, with the location filming out of Calabasas, Snow Canyon and St. George proving to be magnificent backdrops, while North's musical accompaniments are pleasingly non obtrusive.Neither uproariously funny or dramatically potent it's a film caught somewhere in the middle of both. Yet on this occasion it really doesn't matter, it's like a good old glass of bourbon, enjoyably warm while ingested but the buzz soon wears off at closing time. 7/10
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