Support Your Local Sheriff

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Support Your Local Sheriff (26-Mar-1969)

Writer: William Bowers

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Walter Brennan Actor 25-Jul-1894 21-Sep-1974 Three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor

Bruce Dern Actor 4-Jun-1936 Silent Running

Jack Elam Actor 13-Nov-1918 20-Oct-2003 The Sundowners

Gene Evans Actor 11-Jul-1922 1-Apr-1998 Behemoth, the Sea Monster

Kathleen Freeman Actor 17-Feb-1919 23-Aug-2001 Gen. Burkhalter's sister

James Garner Actor 7-Apr-1928 Jim Rockford on Rockford Files

Joan Hackett Actor 1-Mar-1934 8-Oct-1983 Only When I Laugh

Harry Morgan Actor 10-Apr-1915 Col. Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H

REVIEWS

Review by anonymous (posted on 26-Oct-2006)

This film is an inventive and well-executed spoof on Western genre 'hero' films such as 'High Noon'. A drifter (James Garner) who keeps claiming that he's just passing through on his way to Australia, rescues a frontier town from lawlessness, catches the eye of the richest heiress in the territory and takes down the family of outlaws ruling the local economy with a combination of non-chalance honed to a fine art and some hysterically unorthodox tactics. James Garner is at his low-key, 'man in cool control' best. The supporting cast of Jack Elam as his alcoholic deputy, Joan Hackett as Garner's rich-but-ditzy love interest, Harry Morgan as her dad and Bruce Dern as a really dopey outlaw son of the patriarch of bandits (Walter Brennan) are all great foils for Garner. This is a very funny movie and for my money is far superior than the movie most people would point to a the classic spoof on Western heroism 'Blazing Saddles'. It's funnier, much less dirty and more innovative throughout and, unlike the Mel Brooks film, actually has a good, coherent ending--which I'm not going to tell you for y'all own good. So there!

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