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DVD Support Your Local Sheriff
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
"... Just passing through on my(his)way to Australia."
The Australian outback would never be the same!
Take one hilarious script, add a talented support cast,
James Garner's easy going sense of humour and you end up with the hit movie-"Support Your Local Sherriff"
Nicholas Shepherd (aged 12)Glossodia, Sydney, Australia
A Western Hero Spoof
There are lots of Western spoofs, many of them slapstick, but this one is delightfully understated. James Garner manages to affect cool cocky humility as a drifter passing through a no-name town on his way to Australia, almost reluctantly taking the thankless and dangerous job of sheriff so he can earn some spending money to indulge his cultured and extravagent tastes. In his own funny way, he is supremely selfish and self-centered, but he is also a genuine hero who models honesty and tolerance. But most of all, it's a hilarious movie with memorable scenes and dialogue.
What more can be said?
Most of the other reviews cover why this film is so good. Besides the humor, the one liners, the adult jokes folded in here and there that only a adult would get, there is the fact that it is a western for the whole family to enjoy. IT has a G rating, after all. With a cast including James Garner, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, Joan Hackett and Bruce Darn what more could you ask for?
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... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): James Garner - Suzanne Pleshette Director(s): Burt Kennedy DVD Release Date: Released the 20 March 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Long before Unforgiven deconstructed the Western, or Blazing Saddles lampooned it, Cat Ballou poked the genre in the eye. An altogether enjoyable comedy, the film is full of small surprises, big laughs, and wonderful character turns. Catherine Ballou (Jane Fonda) is a schoolteacher until a hired thug kills her daddy. To protect what she loves, she collects two petty criminals, a wisecracking hired hand, and a hired killer, Kid Shelleen (Lee Marvin). Unfortunately, Shelleen is a raging drunk who is so inebriated and unsteady with a gun he literally misses the broad side of a barn. However, Cat, has, as they used to say in those days, a mind of her own, and she masterminds a spectacular train heist that puts them all on the lam. Marvin won an Academy Award for his role... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jane Fonda - Lee Marvin Director(s): Elliot Silverstein DVD Release Date: Released the 08 August 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Many people do not seem to "get" the humor of this movie, so for that reason it would seem that it has limited appeal.
My family watches this film and laughs almost all the way through it. There is a definite 60's campy vibe, which for some seems to be seen as "over the top" humor.
Like Airplane!, the strong dramatic cast gives the humor of the film even more punch. Burt Lancaster and Brian Keith, Jim Hutton and especially Donald Plesance give performances that round out the overall effect and feel of the film.
The humor is not dropped out of the sky to hit hard, it is constant and subtle, and makes the entire film enjoyable. There is sarcasm, slapstick, intellectual, and low-brow humor, all intertwined as a constant barrage that keeps you attentive,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Burt Lancaster - Lee Remick Director(s): John Sturges DVD Release Date: Released the 20 March 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Director Martin Ritt (Norma Rae) helmed this offbeat romance that earned costar James Garner an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a widowed druggist who befriends a confused divorcee (Sally Field) and her son, who move to a small rural town to start over. The laid-back performance of Garner as a man finding love "for the last time in his life" contrasts wonderfully with Field's portrayal of a woman scared and unsure of what the future may hold for her, and the two of them together exhibit great comic timing. As well written and as deftly performed as any movie of its type, Murphy's Romance will rope you in with its winning style. --Robert LaneMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Sally Field - James Garner Director(s): Martin Ritt DVD Release Date: Released the 16 May 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This film and Hello Dolly were the knockout blows to the studio movie musical, but Paint doesn't deserve its tarnished name. Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) takes the model of a rakish derelict to an unequaled high as a prospector who teams up with a greenhorn named Pardner (Clint Eastwood), and they both end up marrying the same scorned woman (Jean Seberg). No-Name City, the prospecting town they found, is Sodom and Gomorrah without the camels, and a vision of humanity left to its own devices. The songs are mostly wonderful melodies from Lerner and Loewe, with definite high points, notably "They Call the Wind Maria" and "Wand'rin' Star." Clint Eastwood always gets flack for his versions of "I Still See Elisa" and "I Talk to the Trees," but that scorn is equally undeserved. Perhaps... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 24 July 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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