Support Your Local Gunfighter
by Burt Kennedy
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Actor: Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, James Garner, Joan Blondell, Suzanne PleshetteDirector: Burt Kennedy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-20
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Support Your Local Gunfighter
Movie Review: Support Your Local Gunfighter
Summary: 4 Stars
Though the titles are similar, as is some of the cast, this isn't a sequel to Support Your Local Sheriff. In some ways it's the complete opposite of Support Your Local Sheriff. In Sheriff Garner was good with a gun, in this one he isn't. In this movie he's Latigo Smith, much more akin to Maverick than his character in Sheriff, i.e., he's slower with a gun & somewhat of a coward.
Latigo arrives in Purgatory (a town name that would've been perfect in an episode of Maverick) on the run from a woman he's jilted & conned. He, literally, wants to get something off his chest...a tattoo with the name Goldie, the woman he's running from. Latigo happens to overhear Taylor Barton (Harry Morgan), a local mining baron, talking about putting a competitor out of business, Col. Ames (John Dehner who had appeared in the old Maverick TV series), by hiring a notorious gunman, Swifty Morgan (Chuck Connors). Ever the conman, Latigo senses an opportunity to make some fast cash. He convinces Jug May (Jack Elam), a drunken & derelict cowboy if there ever was one, to impersonate the gunfighter. Jug May is about as slow as a cowboy can be when doing the fast draw; Latigo constantly outdraws him proclaiming, "I'm slow, Jug!" But Jug is really into the impersonation so he's constantly practicing his fast draw. Latigo is claiming he's going to give Jug 40% of the money he'll collect but he quotes him a figure way below that percentage.
Unfortunately for Latigo, he takes a shine to Barton's daughter, Patience (Suzanne Pleshette). Pleshette is the only real improvement in casting from Sheriff, much better than Joan Hackett. Some very funny scenes occur in the movie, such as the scene in the saloon when a man wants to have a gunfight with Jug, Latigo comes up from behind & knocks him out with a pool cue across the head. Jug says "That wasn't fair, you hit him from behind!" & Latigo replies with a straight face, "Just as hard as I could!" In a later scene a young gunfighter has come to town looking to build his reputation by killing Swifty Morgan (Jug still impersonating him). Latigo cowardly knocks him out too. While unconscious Latigo breaks a finger on the gunman's right hand. Jug observes that the gunman seemed to be a cross draw artist because of the way his holster is on, Latigo then breaks a finger on the other hand.
Finally, the real Swifty Morgan comes to town, he wants to kill the man impersonating him. By this time Latigo has really taking a liking to Jug & doesn't want to see any harm coming to him since it was Latigo that put him up to the impersonation. Thus, it's Latigo who goes out to meet Morgan but, knowing he can't outdraw him, Latigo shows up on a mule loaded down with dynamite. This is where Morgan shouts out the infamous line, " You can't have a gunfight while sitting on your a**!" Well, the dynamite goes off, blowing up Madame Orr's house & revealing a brand new rich vein of gold. Swifty's dying & wants to get his boots off,but can't; Patience can now marry Latigo & the doctor never did succeed in getting the tattoo removed.
This film is directed by Burt Kennedy who was great at doing the western spoof. The only bonus feature is the theatrical trailer & the film is in the widescreen format.
Summary of Support Your Local Gunfighter
James Garner returns for this pseudosequel to Support Your Local Sheriff, this time as a gigolo con man mistaken for a legendary killer. Escaping matrimonial entanglements, he lands in the town of Purgatory in the midst of a raging war between gold miners racing for the mother lode. In a play right out of Maverick, he quickly casts drifter Jack Elam into the gunfighter role and names himself the man's agent, selling his services to the highest bidder and pocketing a sizable commission. Garner double-talks his way through one deal after another with a wink and a smile while Elam growls and swaggers and rolls his eyes, playacting the role of the cold-blooded gunslinger like a wild-eyed clown. Suzanne Pleshette shoots up the town as Garner's romantic interest, a tomboy in buckskin with an itchy trigger finger and lousy aim, and Chuck Conners walks tall as the real bald-as-a-billiard-ball killer. Apart from the tongue-in-cheek tone and returning cast members (Elam, Harry Morgan, Henry Jones, and Gene Evans are among the familiar faces joining Garner), the film has little in common with Sheriff and never quite recaptures the clever twists and low-key hilarity, but this is a cast who knows how to deliver a gag, and Kennedy's laid-back direction keeps an even, affectionately spoofing tone throughout. --Sean AxmakerThe wild west just got wilder and a whole lot wackier! James Garner is back in the saddle again in Support Your Local Gunfighter, a powder keg of laughs in which the most dangerous gunslinger in the west isn't the fastest but the funniest! Gigolo con man Latigo Smith (Garner) needs to get something off his chestthe tattooed name of his most recent ex-fianc?(c)e. But while he's waiting for the local doctor to sober up and perform the operation, Smith overhears that local mining baron Taylor Barton (Harry Morgan) is looking to shut down his mining competition by hiring the notorious gunman, Swifty Morgan. Seizing the opportunity for an easy con, Smith passes off a reprobate cowhand (Jack Elam) as the dreaded Swifty and pockets the cash. Bankroll in hand, he plans to head for the hills until he falls for Barton's pistol-packin' daughter, Patience (Suzanne Pleshette). But when the real Swifty shows up looking for blood, Smith comes up with an outrageous scheme to save his hide, stop the mining feud and win over Patience and it might just work if it doesn't blow up the entire town!
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