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Support Your Local Sheriff | Actors/Actresses: - James Garner - Walter Brennan - Joan Hackett - Burt Kennedy Garner leads a Wild West Funfest!!!! In the Wild West, while "passing though" a gold-rush boom town on his way to Australia, Jason McCullough decides to earn some pocket money by taking the vacant post of sheriff. Armed with a quick draw and even quicker wit, the laid-back lawman is able to recruit the town drunk as deputy, win the heart of the Mayor's rather overreacting daughter and defeat the nasty Danby clan. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF is one of those classic western spoofs in which the typical cliches don't exactly apply. James Garner, who honed his "practical attitude" hero act in the "Maverick" TV series, is wonderful as the savvy sheriff. Jack Elam's quirky charm is put to good use as his loyal, yet reluctant, deputy. Henry Morgan is a hoot as the not-always reliable town mayor. Walter Brennan is appropriately cranky as the head of the Danby clan, while Bruce Dern gets laughs as his rather dim-witted son. From the obvious sight gag of "Madame Orr's House" to Elam's delivery of the off-beat epilogue, this flick never skips a beat. If you enjoy spoofs and the classic style of James Garner's Everyman, this is a film I would heartily recommend. Taming the Wild West James Garner stars as Jason McCullough in this hilarious Western spoof. This was the era of John Wayne westerns, and this movie came about at just about the right time to make fun of the western and what it had become, often scarcely more than a cookie-cutter production with a predictable plot, scowling gunfighters, and the same basic storyline. McCullough is a wandering frontiersman on his way to Australia, and happens upon a small mining town which has sprung up overnight and become too big for its laws. He decides to earn a little extra money before moving on, and takes a job as the sheriff of the town. Consequently he's forced to deal with the Danby bunch, a rancher family who's swindling and intimidating the mine owners. Between dealing with the Danbys (headed by the very funny Walter Brennan), trying to keep his prisoners in a jail with no bars, and fighting off the advances of the hapless mayor's daughter, McCullough has his hands full. Buy Support Your Local Sheriff at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Support Your Local Sheriff Search with the Priority Search Engine on Support Your Local Sheriff This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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