Support Your Local Sheriff!
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
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- Cast:
- James Garner , Joan Hackett , Walter Brennan , Harry Morgan , Jack Elam , Henry Jones , Bruce Dern
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The Worst Film Ever
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Still looking good, the old Maverick himself, James Garner, rides into an old West boom town and generally takes over with understated good humor and a lightning gun that doesn't get much of a workout. The genre parody takes off right from the start with a nice view of Madame Orr's House, and if you didn't get the hint this was going to be a spoof right then and there, you probably weren't paying attention. With Jack Elam on board, you never quite know if he's going to be a good guy or a villain, so when he backs up the new sheriff at the saloon, you have the makings of a clever team up. As with almost everything else in the story, Jason McCullough's (Garner) romancing of the mayor's daughter (Joan Hackett) comes slow and easy, and you had to get a kick out of their cowardly/mature conversation right before the shootout with the Danby's. I'd have to say the cannon gimmick with Joe Danby (Bruce Dern) was pretty clever, but did you notice? Right after Prudy shot two of the Danby kin out of the thirteen that arrived to help out Pa (Walter Brennan), there were still thirteen lined up against McCullough and the cannon. Makes you wonder whether thirteen was their lucky number or not.
Jason McCullough (James Garner) is just passing through town on his way to Australia (!). Needing money, he takes the job of sheriff and quickly finds himself at odds with the criminal Danby family. Very funny western comedy. It sends up the western genre gently without being condescending or insulting like so many western comedies are. James Garner is terrific as the level-headed sheriff, as quick with his wits as with a gun. Great character actor Jack Elam is lots of fun as his sidekick. Bruce Dern is hilarious as the dim-witted Joe Danby. Walter Brennan plays the patriarch of the Danby clan. One would assume this is a send-up of his role in My Darling Clementine. He's very funny as well. Harry Morgan is solid as always. Joan Hackett as the hotheaded Prudy nearly steals the show. I say nearly because Garner's flawless performance can't be beat. It's really a superb cast in a must-see film.
OK, so this movie ain't no "Blazing Saddles" but it also isn't trying to be. And how could they? Since "Blazing Saddles" got made 5 years after this movie. But yet of course every western comedy is going to be compared to "Blazing Saddles", simply because it's THE ultimate western comedy of all time. This movie however is good as a comedy western in its totally different, own kind of way. It has a more subtle comedy approach, even though it's still being filled with plenty of silly moments in it.It actually is a very simplistic movie. It has such a simplistic and predictable story in it, as if they didn't even tried to come up with a good, original story. But none of this matters really, since it's a movie that is all about its fun. It's such an entertaining and lighthearted movie to watch, that you're totally willing to forgive any of the movie its weaknesses and inconsistencies.It's also all because it's such a skillfully made movie. Despite it being a comedy, lots of money and effort was put into it, so that the movie looks and feels like an actual western from the late '60's/'70's.Also the acting is real topnotch. James Garner of course already had lots of western and comedy experience, prior to this movie, so he is obviously very at ease within this movie and feels comfortable and confident in his role, as new town sheriff, who has to deal with a not too bright outlaw family. Also the still very young looking Bruce Dern plays in the movie, in a good but foremost fun role, as does Walter Brennan, who is perhaps one of the most iconic western actors, from the earlier days of the genre. Lots of great and well known western actors appear in this movie, though most of them probably won't be recognized by anybody now days.Even though the movie doesn't has a too impressive story, most of its comedy still comes from its writing. There are lots of word jokes in the movie and lots of sexual innuendo hidden throughout, which works out all wonderfully, mostly also because all of the actors deliver their lines with a very straight face.Simply a joy to watch!8/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
There are only a handful of comic Westerns and this one shines bright among them. James Garner plays a low-key fellow passing through a lawless town on his way to Australia, only to end up becoming its sheriff. He gets rid of the riffraff using his wit as much as his quick-draw. Town doofus Jack Elam becomes his deputy, and Joan Hackett is his tomboy-ish love interest. Harry Morgan plays Hackett's father and the town's mayor. Things get stirred up pretty fast after Garner arrests nasty cowpoke Bruce Dern for killing someone. Papa Walter Brennan and his other sons ride into town to spring Dern and get rid of the new sheriff. This proves easier said than done. Garner keeps things light and breezy in this mostly bloodless western, and Elam, Morgan and Hackett lend him able support throughout. Followed by an inferior effort called "Support Your Local Gunfighter."