Cattle Annie and Little Britches

Cattle Annie and Little Britches is an American film based on the lives of two adolescent girls in the late 19th century who became infatuated with the Western outlaw heroes they had read about in Ned Buntline's stories and left their homes to join them. It was scripted by David Eyre and Robert Ward from Robert Ward's book and directed by Lamont Johnson. The outlaws the girls find are the demoralised remnants of the Doolin-Dalton gang, led by the aging Bill Doolin (Burt Lancaster). Annie (Amanda Plummer), shames, and inspires the men, to become what she had imagined them to be. The younger sister Jenny (Diane Lane), finds a father figure in Doolin, who calls her Little Britches. Doolin's efforts to live up to the girls' vision of him...