Support Your Local Sheriff
by Burt Kennedy
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Actor: Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter BrennanDirector: Burt Kennedy
Brand: GARNER,JAMES
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Jr.
Editor: George W. Brooks
Producer: Bill Finnegan
Producer: William Bowers
Writer: William Bowers
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: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-20
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: United Artists
DVD Reviews of Support Your Local Sheriff
DVD Review: Not family-friendly
Summary: 2 Stars
If you're looking for a good clean innocent family-friendly movie, this isn't it.
While the plot is entertaining and there are some really funny scenes in the movie, conservative parents will not appreciate the multiple instances of swearing (both the d-word and the h-word), the coarseness of some of the town men to the leading lady (swatting her on the behind, etc.), or the dance hall girls and the innuendos surrounding them. Parents looking for good role models for their kids should also be aware that the leading lady is very disrespectful to her father and is a totally exaggerated (tedious) tomboy who rarely acts like a lady.
If these things don't bother you, you'll probably enjoy the film--it IS a funny film. But if you're looking for a 100% wholesome movie for your kids, you'd probably rather spend your money elsewhere.
DVD Review: husbands kinda movie!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
this is one of my husbands favs.now that he has it ,he'll sit in his chair even longer.DVD Review: A Movie For Classic Films Buffs To Check Out
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a very entertaining movie, far better than the similar "Support Your Local Gunfighter," although the two seem to be companion pieces.
This film sure didn't start out with a bang, but once it picks up, it's excellent.There are tons of character actors from this late '60s era, all of whom are fun to watch, guys like Jack Elam and Harry Morgan and much more. James Garner is excellent as the cock-sure Maverick-type sheriff.
The bad guys, led by veterans Walter Brennan and Bruce Dern, provide, I think, the best humor in the film.
As the story goes on, classic film buffs will enjoy all the parodies of past westerns such as Rio Bravo and High Noon. Yup, this turned out to be a real jewel, especially for classic movie fans.
DVD Review: Great movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
The DVD arrived before the expected date. Show plays well. It's fun to see a movie from my teenage years on a widescreen TV! Thanks! DVD Review: A funny, affectionate spoof of classic Westerns
Summary: 5 Stars
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 viewings. Don't miss it!--William C. Hall
Description of Support Your Local Sheriff
Armed with a wry sense of humor and a straight-shooting sidearm, James Garner (Maverick, My Fellow Americans) fights for peace, justice and fun in this outrageous, irreverent and "very funny" (Los Angeles Times) farce co-starring Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan and Jack Elam. Support Your Local Sheriff is "sheer entertainment from start to finish" (Boxoffice)! On his way to Australia, frontier opportunist Jason McCullough (Garner) stumbles into a small gold-rush town and decides to earn a little extra pocket money by accepting a temporary assignment as its sheriff. Happily applying himself to his new position, McCullough manages to turn the town derelict (Elam) into his deputy, outsmart the dreaded Danby clan (led by Brennan in a hilarious comic performance), and fend off the lusty advances of the mayor's daughter (Hackett) all without breaking a sweat or dirtying his shiny black boots!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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