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Cat Ballou is a 1965 comedy Western film which tells the story of a woman who hires a famous gunman to avenge her father's murder, but finds that the man she hires isn't what she expected. It stars Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan , Dwayne Hickman, Nat King Cole, and Stubby Kaye.

It was adapted by Walter Newman and Frank Pierson from the novel by Roy Chanslor . It was directed by Elliot Silverstein .

It won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Lee Marvin), and was nominated for Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment, Best Music, Song ( Jerry Livingston and Mack David for The Ballad of Cat Ballou) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

The novel was originally a serious Western, but was turned into a comedy for the movie.

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