Red Garters (film)

Red Garters
Film poster
Directed byGeorge Marshall
Written byMichael Fessier
Produced byPat Duggan
StarringRosemary Clooney
Jack Carson
Guy Mitchell
CinematographyArthur Arling
Edited byArthur P. Schmidt
Music byJoseph J. Lilley
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • February 9, 1954 (1954-02-09) (Los Angeles)
  • March 26, 1954 (1954-03-26) (New York City)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.3 million[1]

Red Garters is a 1954 American musical western film starring Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell. It is a musical spoof of Westerns. The director was George Marshall.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer).[2]

"[Red Garters] is a costume piece, a roguish, cheeky musical western in which anything goes. All the cliches of every western ever made are examined with humor and high spirits. [...] Red Garters has no settings in the ordinary sense; houses, trees, windows and the like are merely suggested, as on a musical stage."[3]

It has been distributed on VHS, Laserdisc, and DVD.

  1. ^ "1954 Box Office Champs". Variety Weekly. January 5, 1955. p. 59. - figures are rentals in the US and Canada
  2. ^ "NY Times: Red Garters". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on October 18, 2012. Retrieved December 21, 2008.
  3. ^ Red Garters LP record, Columbia Records, Inc. CL6282