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VHS : Support Your Local Sheriff |
Price: $19.75 Prices subject to change.
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792847137
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 079284713X
Label: United Artists
Manufacturer: United Artists
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: United Artists
Release Date: October 03, 2000
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 20213
Studio: United Artists
Theatrical Release Date: March 26, 1969
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While hardly the first Western spoof to ride out of Hollywood, Support Your Local Sheriff is easily one of the best. James Garner plays the confident, cool-headed cowboy who strolls into a wild gold rush town on the way to Australia and takes the job as sheriff. Like a parody of My Darling Clementine by way of Rio Bravo, he arrests the hotheaded but hopelessly confused son (Bruce Dern) of a ruthless ranching magnate (Walter Brennan). Stuck with a half-built jail (where he keeps his prisoner penned up with pure psychology and a few spatters of red paint), a rummy sidekick (google-eyed Jack Elam in one of his first comic turns), and a disaster-prone tomboy (Joan Hackett), he takes on a succession of gunfighters with increasing exasperation. "Sure is a childish way for a grown man to make a living," he laments before chasing one gunman out of Dodge by pelting him with rocks. Directed with laconic ease by veteran Western director Burt Kennedy, it's a clever spoof of familiar conventions in a lighthearted vein, more understated and affectionate than Mel Brooks's outrageous farce Blazing Saddles. It inspired a slew of imitators, including a decade of silly Disney Westerns that sank the genre in slapstick shenanigans, and was followed in 1971 by Kennedy's pseudosequel Support Your Local Gunfighter, which reteamed Garner and Elam in a more mercenary story of con artists and gunslingers. --Sean Axmaker
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By 1969, revolution was in the air in the United States. All kinds of institutions were under question or attack. So it was a perfect time for the funniest spoof ever of the heroic Western. James Garner stars in "Support Your Local Sheriff" as Jason McCullough, who rides into the frontier town of Calendar. Calendar was a sleepy little outpost until the discovery of gold a short time before McCullough's arrival. Then all h--- broke loose. He's soon persuaded to take up the sheriff's badge, which is vacant (and dented) since all the previous sheriffs have been killed or fled. He insists he's really on his way to Australia, but doesn't seem to be in any real hurry to get there. Garner's charm, timing and delivery, as ever, are magnificent, and he's surrounded by a first-rate supporting cast.
There's a love interest, of course, played delightfully by Joan Hackett, whose father, the town Mayor, is portrayed by Harry Morgan. Of course there's an outlaw family, the Danbys, headed by flinty Walter Brennan. Jack Elam, who was the town character and had been shoveling out the stable, finds himself pressed into service as McCullough's deputy, and Bruce Dern is Joe Danby, whose arrest for murder and clan's promise to free him at any cost provokes the inevitable showdown. There isn't a weak link the cast or a slow moment in the script. This is laugh-out-loud funny from beginning to end, and it's G rated, so the entire family can enjoy it. I haven't tired of it, despite repeated ... Read More
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This is one excellent classic film starring James Garner. this is one funny and outrageous western for whole family to enjoy. i thought i was going to bust a gut i was laughing so hard at the anticks of bruce dern's stupid but loveable outlaw character and the way jim handles him and the others in the town. quite funny.
Highly Recommended.
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I'm not going to tag this movie as essential but, in my book, it is. This is James Garner in his two best genres: comedy & western. In some ways, by virtue of this being a comedy-western, it makes this a throwback, of sorts, to his old TV series, Maverick. Nobody, & I mean NOBODY, did the comedy-western genre better than Garner. His comedic timing is impeccable & his acting extremely natural. Garner is so good on so many levels it makes one wonder: Is he acting or just being himself? This is the first of the "Support..." films, the other being Support Your Local Gunfighter; they are similar movies but not related to each other, especially not in the sense of a sequel. But they're certainly companions to one another.
Jason McCullough (James Garner) arrives in Calendar, broke. He's on his way to Australia & that's all he really wants to do. Calendar has become a gold-rush town & is booming, inflation has skyrocketed. He sees an ad for town sheriff & applies for it & is successful in securing the position but with one stipulation: He also wants to prospect for gold in order to get enough money to purchase a ticket to Australia. The town council is all too willing because McCullough puts on a shooting demonstration (shooting a coin dead center after being tossed in the air & then repeating it with a piece of paper stuck on the coin) that would impress the best shootists of the day.
One of the first things to happen after he ... Read More
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I think this is the funniest movie available. When I am feeling down, it always cheers me right up. Of course, James Garner is easy to look at!
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I was born 7 years after this film was released and since i imagine a guy would have to be at least ten years old to enjoy it it would have been 17 years after its release before i saw and enjoyed it. however, i didn't see this film for the first time until i was 26. that means 33 years after its release this film was good enough for me to call it one of my favorites. it withstood the test of time and six years after my first viewing (39 years after its release) i still watch and enjoy this pic as much as i did the first time i saw it.
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