This was a Republic film made in wide screen / their wide screen process called Naturama.

However this heading is leading me into a different subject and I will explain. The whole of March 2023 I have been on holiday in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia and during this time we ventured up into the Barossa Valley – a famous wine growing area – and went to the town of Kapunda.

One of the attractions of many, was the Museum which had been used a few years ago as a cinema – and the remains are there clear to see and on the bill board was still a poster for ‘The Maverick Queen‘.

I always get mixed up with TWO films both starring Barbara Stanwyck – ‘The Maverick Queen’ and ‘Cattle Queen of Montana’ – the reason us that they were made within a couple of years of each other,

When Barbara Stanwyck’s era of Hollywood stardom came to an end in the early fifties, she then became the star of a number of TV Western series, which cast her as a tough leader of an outlaw gang.

The Maverick Queen has a bigger budget (and was shot in colour) but and wide screen