It Came From Hollywood has a thing for outlaw girls. Just saying. Of course, who doesn’t. Go back to the movies of yesterday and you would find lots of outlaw (aka “bad”) women in the usual mis-behaving role, be it westerns, noirs, jungles, crime, small town and big city neighborhoods, you name it. In Outlaw Girl, you “don’t tangle with Mangano!” That would be Silvana Mangano in this Italian import courtesy of Lux Film, Paramount, and I.F.E Releasing Corp (they did the English dubbing). “Shooting from the hips” in this one, she helps a wronged man get even with those who done him wrong. Trivia from IMDb Pro notes the love theme was re-used in Hercules and Hercules Unchained. Mangano became a sex symbol and notable film star, and was wife to Dino De Laurentiis.
With exploitation lines like “No. 1 Sex Appeal gal in the role of a gun moll,” no longer today’s promotion du jour, this pressbook provides a glimpse into how movies were sold through the male gaze for adults.
