Support Your Local Gunfighter
by Burt Kennedy
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Actor: Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, James Garner, Joan Blondell, Suzanne PleshetteDirector: Burt Kennedy
Brand: GARNER,JAMES
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Jr.
Producer: Burt Kennedy
Editor: William B. Gulick
Producer: Bill Finnegan
Writer: James Edward Grant
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-20
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Support Your Local Gunfighter
DVD Review: Latigo Smith, reluctant gunfighter
Summary: 4 Stars
Slightly darker and more sarcastic than Garner's Support Your Local Sheriff (with which it shares a a director (Burt Kennedy) and a large number of cast members, notably Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, Henry Jones, Kathleen Freeman, Willis Bouchey, Walter Burke, and Gene Evans), this comedy-Western is the story of Latigo Smith (Garner), who, fleeing the possibility of marriage to Denver madam Goldie (Marie Windsor), finds himself in the midst of a mining-town feud. Taylor Barton owns one of the town's two major mines, Col. Ames (John Dehner) the other, and they're both tunnelling toward the Mother Lode and trying to stop each other from getting there first. Latigo, an opportunist to end all opportunists, decides to make hay while the feud shines, and recruits cowboy Jug May (Elam) to pose as the notorious gunfighter Swifty Morgan, "hiring" both of them out to Barton in return for the money he needs to get a tattoo of Goldie's name removed from his chest by Doc Schultz (Dub Taylor). What Lat doesn't know, and Ames does, is that Jug "has a full head of hair, [and] Swifty Morgan is as bald as an egg!" So Ames telegraphs Morgan (Chuck Connors), who comes looking for the person taking his name in vain. Meanwhile Jug is discovering that he's braver than he ever suspected, and Lat is growing interested in Barton's daughter Patience, a.k.a. "The Sidewinder" (Suzanne Pleshette), a shotgun-toting tomboy who has "sworn me a vow" to attend "Miss Hunter's College on the Hudson River New York for Young Ladies of Good Family," and is fascinated to learn that Lat was born in New York City--and *hates* the West! Garner's character here is a harsher version of his famous Bret Maverick, with an intermittent tendency to a sort of fit in which he finds himself unable to resist playing a certain number at roulette despite his utter loathing of the game and his scorn of any "sucker" who plays it. The action is funny and furious and the humor, though not quite as enjoyable as in the other movie, is certainly well-suited to Garner's reputation, with a convoluted storyline to keep things humming.DVD Review: Recommended
Summary: 4 Stars
Almost as good as Support Your Local Sheriff. Excellent sequel. If you liked Support, you'll enjoy this just as much. highly recommended.DVD Review: Don't waste your money
Summary: 2 Stars
If you're looking for a clean, funny family-friendly movie along the lines of Garner's Maverick episodes, this isn't it.
I'm frankly quite surprised that this is a G-rated film. Families should be aware that there is quite a lot of language in this movie. D--- and h--- are sprinkled liberally throughout. Add it to the innuendos and the riotous dance hall girls and you've got a movie that should be at least a PG.
The film has a few humorous moments, such as when Garner's sidekick assumes the tough steely-eyed persona of the famous gunslinger Garner finagles him into impersonating. However, these bits of laughter aren't enough to relieve the monotony of the plot. Overall, this film is simply not as clever or entertaining as many of Garner's other appearances. And the gun-slinging pants-wearing wildcat tomboy heroine is really overdone and annoying. :D
Save your money for something else.
DVD Review: Funny is funny!
Summary: 5 Stars
Here is a story that start to finish is funny. It's actually a bit funnier than "...Sheriff". The acting is perfect, (Harry Morgan is less loud in this one) and the humor, top notch. Want to laugh and not feel guilty? This is one of those movies. Maybe more of a guy movie, probably because of James Garner, but an enjoyable big bag of popcorn, none the less.DVD Review: Great Sequal Not as Good as the first
Summary: 4 Stars
What a great Sequal I guess if you could call it that. I loved Support your local Sherriff so when I saw this one I decided to get it and it was very funny just not as good as the original.
Description of Support Your Local Gunfighter
The wild west just got wilder and a whole lot wackier! James Garner is back in the saddle again in Support Your Local Gunfighter, a powder keg of laughs in which the most dangerous gunslinger in the west isn't the fastest but the funniest! Gigolo con man Latigo Smith (Garner) needs to get something off his chestthe tattooed name of his most recent ex-fianc?(c)e. But while he's waiting for the local doctor to sober up and perform the operation, Smith overhears that local mining baron Taylor Barton (Harry Morgan) is looking to shut down his mining competition by hiring the notorious gunman, Swifty Morgan. Seizing the opportunity for an easy con, Smith passes off a reprobate cowhand (Jack Elam) as the dreaded Swifty and pockets the cash. Bankroll in hand, he plans to head for the hills until he falls for Barton's pistol-packin' daughter, Patience (Suzanne Pleshette). But when the real Swifty shows up looking for blood, Smith comes up with an outrageous scheme to save his hide, stop the mining feud and win over Patience and it might just work if it doesn't blow up the entire town!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 buckskin with an itchy trigger finger and lousy aim, and Chuck Conners walks tall as the real bald-as-a-billiard-ball killer. Apart from the tongue-in-cheek tone and returning cast members (Elam, Harry Morgan, Henry Jones, and Gene Evans are among the familiar faces joining Garner), the film has little in common with Sheriff and never quite recaptures the clever twists and low-key hilarity, but this is a cast who knows how to deliver a gag, and Kennedy's laid-back direction keeps an even, affectionately spoofing tone throughout. --Sean Axmaker
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