by Hal Erickson
synopsis
When seen today, Bullwhip seems to be a dry run for the 1975 Jack Nicholson-Mary Steenburgen western Goin' South. To save himself from being hanged on a trumped-up murder charge, frontiersman Guy Madison agrees to marry whip-wielding spitfire Rhonda Fleming. Once the ceremony is over, Fleming wants nothing to do with her new husband, but he insists upon insinuating himself in her burgeoning fur-trading business. How long will it be before the heroine succumbs to Madison's rakish charms? When Shakespeare wrote this story, he called it Taming of the Shrew.
characteristics
- Murder
- Marriage-arranged
- Rescue
- Romance
- Romantic
- Love
- Life-choices
- False-accusation
- Ambitious
- Feminism
- Feminist
- Investigation
