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The Iron Mistress is a american film of genre Drama directed by Gordon Douglas released in USA on 19 november 1952 with Alan Ladd
The Iron Mistress (1952)
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Add to a movie listThe Iron Mistress is a 1952 film drama starring Alan Ladd as Jim Bowie. It ends with his marriage to Ursula de Veramendi and does not deal with Bowie's death at the Battle of the Alamo.
It was the first film Ladd made at Warner Bros. after spending a decade at Paramount Pictures.
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In the early 19th Century, Jim Bowie leaves his home in the Bayou to sell lumber in New Orleans. He inadvertently offends Narcisse de Bornay by defending the artist James Audubon and is challenged to his duel, but charms his way out of it and Narcisse becomes his friend.Actors
Alan Ladd
(Jim Bowie)
Virginia Mayo
(Judalon de Bornay)
Joseph Calleia
(Juan Moreno)
Phyllis Kirk
(Ursula de Varamendi)
Alf Kjellin
(Phillipe de Cabanal)
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