Support Your Local Gunfighter/Support Your Local Sheriff
by Burt Kennedy
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Actor: Harry Morgan, James Garner, Joan Hackett, Suzanne Pleshette, Walter BrennanDirector: Burt Kennedy
Brand: MGM
Producer: James Garner
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Jr.
Producer: Burt Kennedy
Producer: Bill Finnegan
Producer: William Bowers
Writer: William Bowers
Writer: James Edward Grant
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 186 minutes
Published: 2002-05-01
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-07
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: United Artists
Movie Reviews of Support Your Local Gunfighter/Support Your Local Sheriff
Movie Review: A Good Value
Summary: 5 Stars
This is, in effect, two related but different movies packaged together for marketing purposes. Both are funny and being offered together makes them a bit more affordable. Reviews of both appear below.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF
James Garner always does a great job in playing acerbic comic roles and his role in this one is no exception. He plays a man who is hired as sheriff in a gold rush boom town and who takes the job seriously enough to clean the place up. He does so with wit and charm and the bad guys never no what hit them.
Bruce Dern plays the first guy he arrests. He is a bad one but not to bright. This is a good thing since the bars for the jail have not been installed yet. Walter Brennan plays Dern's father. He is the head of the outlaw family but just can't seem to get his way with the sheriff. His performance too is a delight. Jack Elam plays the deputy and Harry Morgan plays the mayor. All do a wonderful job.
There is always something to laugh at in this one.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF was a comic masterpiece and cried out, at least in terms on dollars and cents, for a sequel. So they made one, only it wasn't
Almost all of the cast from the SHERIFF appear in GUNFIGHTER but they all play completely different characters. Nothing is the same except that it takes place in the west and is funny, but not as funny as the original.
James Garner plays the role of Latigo Smith. He is a man on the run, not from the law but from a woman who expects to marry him. He goes to ground in Purgatory, a mining town. His arrival is noted by the owner of one of the town's two competing mining companies. They think he is a gunfighter hired by the other company. He's not but sees financial opportunity in the confusion. He passes himself off as the agent for the gunfighter (less danger and stress) and cons a down on his luck cowboy into playing the part of the gunfighter.
This is not a movie filled with excitement or drama. It is a comedy. It is not as funny as SHERIFF but it is funny in its own right.
Summary of Support Your Local Gunfighter/Support Your Local Sheriff
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