Select just about any Warhol film from the mid-sixties and you'll find a scandal tucked away. Lonesome Cowboys's most notable run-in with the law was in Atlanta where it was seized after replacing Gone with the Wind in a mall theater. An outrageously funny spoof on the western, Lonesome Cowboys was staged on a rented movie set near Tucson. The film involves the invasion of a ghost town (population 3) by five dissolute cowpokes. The cowering sheriff, who spends much of his time trying on new wigs, leaves the defense of the town to its two remaining occupants, the virginal harlot Ramona (Viva) and her bodyguard (Taylor Mead). Lonesome Cowboys is filled with wildly comic setpieces, including a cowboy practicing ballet moves at the hitching post and a peevish lecture on the misuse of mascara. These desperadoes are real trailblazers when it comes to libidinous appetites and it is here that Lonesome Cowboys distinguishes itself from the herd. Unflinchingly, Warhol shoots down the myth of the de-sexed cowhand.