Review(s): DVD Support Your Local Gunfighter/Support Your Local Sheriff
Go West
If your taste in westerns are "noir-ish" like Eastwood's "The Unforgiven" the 'Suooort Your" pair should be passed, but for a good time with the family and the popcorn bowl they both are choice.
One Great, One Lousy, Like So Many Movies With Sequels
"Support Your Local Sheriff" is a great James Garner comedy. "Support Your Local Gunfighter" is a disappointment, like so many sequels in the movie world. The "Gunfighter" script is as bad as the "Sheriff" script is good. For example, "Gunfighter" has nothing to match the great "prison without bars" gag in "Sheriff".
You can not watch just one
*** Support Your local Sheriff ***
60 for who and 40 for who?
Down through time it is easy to get the "support your local" films mixed up. This is the first. This is an educational film teaching you everything from sharing to proper gun pointing etiquette. Everyone has his or her favorite part in this movie. It contains sight gages and puns and jokes (some take time to think about.)
I will not go into detail incase you have not seen this as it is fun to watch the story unfold. However it is several overlapping stories tied together by Jason McCullough (James Garner) who has spent four years on his way to Australia and stops for a little gold prospecting. He needs a job to buy food while prospecting, as the position of sheriff is available.
O.K. I can not help it. He is handed the badge with a dent from a bullet in it.
James Garner: This must have saved his life.
Harry Morgan: It would have, if it weren't for all those other bullets.
This movie may not have all the DVD goodies you look for but it is DVD so it will last as long as the technology.
*** Support Your Local Gunfighter ***
"Have you seen Elmer?"
Latigo Smith (James Garner) barely escapes marital bliss with Goldie, to find himself in a situation with out money but a golden opportunity. The town he as escaped to (Purgatory) has rival mining companies digging for the motherload. Latigo teams up with Jug May (Jack Elam) who poses as Swifty Morgan, hired gun. Latigo is his agent and handles all the money.
The fun in this movie is the interaction of the characters much more than the story. One thing that struck me as funny is the scene where Col. Ames is stretching over in his stiff boots to see if Taylor Barton (Harry Morgan) is hiding under his sister's bead. Another is when Jug sees Latigo asking a woman for money, he says that he was brought up not to ask women for money. Latigo suggest that is because a woman raised him.
Who will get the load and who will get the shaft? Will the real Swifty show up? What about Goldie?
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