Burt Lancaster, Scott Glenn, Amanda Plummer, Diane Lane in “Cattle Annie and Little Britches“ (1981)

Oklahoma, 1893. After the Dalton Gang was partially wiped out in Coffeyville , Kansas, and after their many years together, the outlaw gang led by Bill Doolin (Burt Lancaster) and Bill Dalton (Scott Glenn), who had given up robbing trains and moved on to robbing banks, is about to disband. But when two teenage girls filled with the romance of stories about outlaws in the West, on a quest to meet and join up with them, show up, the gang is revived. The girls find a shadow of the former gang. The outlaws are the demoralized remnants of the “Doolin-Dalton gang“, led by Bill Doolin. Although disappointed, Anna Emmaline McDoulet, or “Cattle Annie“ (Amanda Plummer), shames and inspires the men to become what she had imagined them to be. The younger sister (but historically not a relative) Jennie Stevens or “Little Britches“ (Diane Lane) finds a father figure in Doolin, who in the story line coined her nickname “Little Britches“. Jenny and Annie help the men pla
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