The Buckskin Lady

Gambler Patricia Medina feels regret and attraction when Doctor Richard Denning comes to town broke, having purchased the medical practice of her alcoholic father, Henry Hull. She plays gunslinger Gerald Mohr for the money needed, and he wins. When she discovers the cards were marked, she goes for Mohr, who fights her off. Denning, seeing her bruised, misinterprets what's going on, so she gets married to Mohr, who robs a bank.

It's one of those 1950s westerns which try to be important through symbolism, like naming Mohr's gun-slinging character 'Slinger,' Denning's character 'Merrit', and Miss Medina's character 'Medley' to indicate the mixed nature of her emotions. Given, however, that is obvious to even Hank Worden what is going on, I can't say I was impressed.

Miss Medina's dark beauty had won her some good roles in her native England, but a move to Hollywood in the late 1940s didn't do much for her career. Roles in swashbucklers gave way to lesser works, and by 1961 she was appearing in Three Stooges features. She finally quit the profession in 1978 to be with Joseph Cotten, whom she had married in 1960. She died in 2012 and the age of 92.