I think that junglequeensman hit it with Barbarella. I remember watching the movie in the theater as a teenager and praying for a catfight. After all, Jane Fonda showed that she could throw-down in her 3-second catfight in Walk on the Wild Side. The costumes, the women, the genre, just had "great catfight" written all over it. Too bad that Roger Corman wasn't the producer. Then we would have had a great one.
But in the ages before VHS and the Internet, I used to stay up until all hours watching movie after movie that had promise -- too many to remember any titles - only to be disappointed time and again. But hope sprung eternal.
One that I do remember was a movie entitled Johnny Guitar. It was a western made in the early 1950's and it starred two headliner actresses: Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge. The two women were long and bitter rivals vying for control of the local town. After an entire 90 minute build-up, the climatic scene had them confront each other outside of Ms. Crawford's hideout. Great chance for a knock-down, drag-out decisive catfight, right? Not a chance. They ended up shooting each other. All I could say was "F*** me for staying up and watching this."
That's my story.
