The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
Director:
Maggie Greenwald
Tagline:
« In the Wild West, a woman had only two choices. She could be a wife or she could be a whore… Josephine Monaghan chose to be a man. »
Actors:
Jo Monaghan
Frank Badger
Percy Corcoran
Tinman Wong
Mary Addie
Rating:
(1’941 votes)
(1’941 votes)
Quotes:
« Frank Badger: Little Jo, you are the unfriendliest fella I ever met, and frankly quite pecular.
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« P.D. Smith, Ruby City Mortician: Mr. Badger!
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« Frank Badger: Yeah, what? What the matter?
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« P.D. Smith, Ruby City Mortician: It's about Little Jo!
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« Frank Badger: Well, speak up, man! What about him!
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« P.D. Smith, Ruby City Mortician: He was a woman!
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« Frank Badger: Do you think he's going to make it?
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« Ruth Badger: Well, he's got one foot on the other side.
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Trailer:
The Ballad of Little Jo
Runtime:121 minutes
Plots:
After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid nineteenth century who is thrown out of her parents’ home after being seduced by the family’s portrait photographer and giving birth to his child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as “Jo”, a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can “Little Jo” live and love without revealing his secret?
