Rent Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)
3.8 of 5 from 67 ratings
1h 29min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- On his way to Australia, a frontier opportunist Jason McCullough (James Garner) stumbles into a small gold-rush town and decides to earn a little extra pocket money by accepting a temporary assignment as their sheriff. Happily applying himself to his new position, McCullough manages to turn the town derelict (Jack Elam) into his deputy, outsmart the dreaded Danby clan, and fend off the lusty advances of the mayor's daughter (Joan Hackett) - all without breaking a sweat or dirtying his shiny black boots!
- Actors:
- James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, Henry Jones, Bruce Dern, Willis Bouchey, Gene Evans, Walter Burke, Dick Peabody, Chubby Johnson, Kathleen Freeman, Dick Haynes, Richard Alden, Robert Anderson, Bill Borzage, Danny Borzage, Forrest Burns, Bill Catching
- Directors:
- Burt Kennedy
- Producers:
- William Bowers
- Writers:
- William Bowers
- Studio:
- MGM
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- 21 Reasons to Love, 21 Reasons to Love..Modern Westerns, Cinema Paradiso's 2025 Centenary Club: January - March, A Brief History of Film..., What We Were Watching in 1971
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 29/10/2018
- Run Time:
- 93 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (1) of Support Your Local Sheriff
Mild West - Support Your Local Sheriff review by griggs
Support Your Local Sheriff! is a pleasantly amiable romp that never quite convinces you it’s as funny as it thinks it is. James Garner does his laid-back charm thing with the engine barely ticking over, and while that has its pleasures, the jokes land more as polite nods than actual laughs.
Watched from the far side of Blazing Saddles, its gentler spoofing of the Western feels tame rather than sharp. Harry Morgan is easily the best thing on screen as the bumbling Mayor Olly Perkins, bringing just enough daft energy to keep the whole thing from drifting off into the prairie.
Nice enough. Not exactly saddling up for greatness.
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