The Iron Mistress (1952) Trailer

The Iron Mistress

JIM BOWIE...a man with his name on a knife - and a woman with a weapon all her own!

The Iron Mistress is a 1952 Western film starring Alan Ladd as Jim Bowie.

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Barely historical presentation of the life of Jim Bowie. Here he goes to New Orleans to sell lumber but falls in love with Judalon. To match his rivals he must become sophisticated and does so. By the time he sells the mill, starts a plantation and tries to wed Jedualon the woman has wed playboy Phillipe. Along the way to true wisdom he designs a special knife made from part of a meteorite. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>