The Ballad of Josie is a 1967 Technicolor

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 American comedy

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 western film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Doris Day

Doris Day

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, Peter Graves

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 and George Kennedy

George Kennedy

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. It attempted to humorously tackle 1960s themes of feminism

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 in a traditional Western setting.

It was the last film for William Talman.

Plot

A young woman living in fictional Arapahoe County, Wyoming

Wyoming

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 accidentally kills her very abusive husband. She is put on trial but acquitted. She then incurs the annoyance of her male neighbors by farming sheep instead of cattle and setting up a woman's suffrage movement.

Cast

• Doris Day
  Doris Day
  Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
  
   - Josie Minick
• Peter Graves
  Peter Graves (actor)
  Peter Aurness , known professionally as Peter Graves, was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his starring role in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973...
  
   - Jason Meredith
• George Kennedy
  George Kennedy
  George Harris Kennedy, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is perhaps most familiar as the convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke , airline troubleshooter Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s and...
  
   - Arch Ogden
• Andy Devine
  Andy Devine
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   - Judge Tatum
• William Talman - District Attorney Charlie Lord
• David Hartman
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   - Sheriff Fonse Pruitt
• Guy Raymond - Doc
• Audrey Christie - Annabelle Pettijohn
• Karen Jensen - Deborah Wilkes
• Elisabeth Fraser
  Elisabeth Fraser
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   - Widow Renfrew
• Linda Meiklejohn - Jenny McCardle
• Shirley O'Hara - Elizabeth
• Timothy Scott - Klugg The Sheepherder
• Don Stroud
  Don Stroud
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   - Bratsch The Sheepherder
• Paul Fix
  Paul Fix
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   - Alpheus Minick
• Harry Carey, Jr.
  Harry Carey, Jr.
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   - Mooney, Meredith's Foreman (as Harry Carey)
• John Fiedler
  John Fiedler
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   - Simpson, general store owner
• Robert Lowery
  Robert Lowery
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  - Whit Minick, town drunk
• Teddy Quinn - Luther Minick, Josie's son