To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass named Laurie Anders, was in 1953 a popular TV personality. A regular on The Ken Murray Show, Anders had risen to fame with the Southern-fried catchphrase "Ah love the wi-i-i-ide open spaces!" Striking while the iron was hot, the entrepreneurial Murray produced this inexpensive oater, which cast Anders as Laurie Dawson, the singing daughter of a U.S. marshal (Hoot Gibson). Teaming with her dad to capture outlaw Trigger Gans (Bob Duncan), Laurie briefly disguises herself as a masked bandit. Amidst much stock footage from earlier westerns and a plethora of lame jokes and dreadful puns, The Marshal's Daughter is a treat for trivia buffs, featuring such virile actors as Preston S. Foster, Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Buddy Baer as "themselves."
Laurie Anders
as Laurie Dawson
Hoot Gibson
as Marshal Ben Dawson
Ken Murray
as 'Smiling Billy' Murray
Preston Foster
as Preston Foster - Poker-Game Player
Johnny Mack Brown
as Johnny Mack Brown - Poker-Game Player
Jimmy Wakely
as Jimmy Wakely - Poker-Game Player
Buddy Baer
as Buddy Baer - Poker Game Player
Harry Lauter
as Russ Mason
Robert Bray
as Anderson (as Bob Bray)
Bob Duncan
as Trigger Gans
Pamela Ann Murray
as Baby Laurie Dawson
Tex Ritter
as Background Singer (singing voice)
