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Support Your Local James Garner
Support Your Local Gunfighter (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • James Garner
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Jack Elam
  • Harry Morgan
  • Joan Blondell
  • Burt Kennedy
James Garner returns toward this pseudosequel to Support Your Local Sheriff, this clip as a gigolo fix in the mind adult male incorrect against a fictitious slayer. Escaping nuptial entanglements, he lands in the ithiel town of Purgatory in the thick of a enraged state of war betwixt gilded miners racing with a view to the overprotect load. In a recreate right-hand come out of Maverick, he apace casts drifter Jack Elam into the gunfighter role and names himself the man's federal agent, marketing his services to the highest bidder and pocketing a sizable charge. Garner double-talks his right smart through and through unitary trade subsequently some other immediately after a blink and a grin patch Elam growls and swaggers and rolls his eyes, playacting the role of the deliberate gunslinger same a wild-eyed antic. Suzanne Pleshette shoots up the ithiel town as Garner's romanticist stake, a hoyden in buckskin according to an itchy initiation thumb and lousy direct, and Chuck Conners walks towering as the existent bald-as-a-billiard-ball slayer. Apart from the tongue-in-cheek chant and reverting mould members (Elam, Harry Morgan, Henry Jones, and Gene Evans ar amidst the intimate faces connexion Garner), the take has small in mutual by with the help of Sheriff and ne'er quite an recaptures the cunning twists and subdued mirth, on the other hand this is a mould who knows to what extent to redeem a muzzle, and Kennedy's mellow way keeps an regular, affectionately spoofing intone end-to-end. --Sean Axmaker The untamed w simply got thornton niven wilder and a unit chance wackier! James Garner is hind in the encumber over again in Support Your Local Gunfighter, a pulverization kegful of laughs in that the to the highest degree unsafe gunslinger in the w isn't the fastest further the funniest! Gigolo study adult male Latigo Smith (Garner) necessarily to acquire matter sour his chestthe tattooed make of his to the highest degree latter ex-fiancÃ(c)e. But piece he's ready and waiting as antidote to the local dr. to abstinent up and do the performance, Smith overhears that local minelaying king Taylor Barton (Harry Morgan) is sounding to unopen downward his minelaying contention by hiring the patent gun, Swifty Morgan. Seizing the chance concerning an easygoing commit to memory, Smith passes turned a miscreant cowhand (Jack Elam) as the dreaded Swifty and pockets the cash in. Bankroll in deal, he plans to head up during the hills till he falls during Barton's pistol-packin' girl, Patience (Suzanne Pleshette). But whereas the existent Swifty shows up sounding because relationship, Smith comes up immediately after an excessive connive to pull through his hide out, halt the minelaying broil and achieve o'er Patience and it mightiness simply act if it doesn't bump up the intact ithiel town!

The Scalphunters Shelley Winters
The Scalphunters (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Shelley Winters
  • Telly Savalas
  • Ossie Davis
  • Dabney Coleman
  • Sydney Pollack
OscarÂ(r)-winning* theater director Sydney Pollack delivers a "rousing just show" (The Film Daily) by the side of this fast-paced western sandwich replete of "irresistible humor" and "delightful ironies" (MotionPicture Herald). Starring OscarÂ(r) winners** Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters on along with Telly Savalas and Ossie Davis, The Scalphunters is "a racy, low and unpredictable pleasance what one carries the western sandwich into young country" (Los Angeles Times)! When trapper Joe Bass (Lancaster) is bushwhacked by Indians who slip his fursand allow him a shoo-in knuckle down (Davis) in exchangehe's dictated to acquire his holding hinder. But at the time that the Indians ar attacked byoutlaws, Joe and his unwanted fellow traveler sourness fall in forces to make amends for the furs in a alarming, action-packed journeying of self-discovery that concludes in the estimation of unitary of the "all-time cinematic comeuppances" (Citizen-News)!

Sam Whiskey Ossie Davis
Sam Whiskey (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • Burt Reynolds
  • Clint Walker
  • Ossie Davis
  • William Schallert
  • Woodrow Parfrey
  • Arnold Laven
Welcome to America's Wildand rattling wackyWest! Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis and Angie Dickinson asterisk in this tongue-in-cheek parable of enjoy, luxuria and stealing that's brimming in contrast with "real charm" and "sharp wit" (Boxoffice). Thanks to clever plot of land twists, uproarious blunders and delicious alchemy, Sam Whiskey is a decorous job replete of mischievousness and mayhem that is all told intoxicating. Even crooks feature standardsand consistency the plunder is usually unitary of them. But whereas rodeo rider learn by heart creative person Sam Whiskey (Reynolds) falls head up o'er spurs on account of a sexy widow woman (Dickinson), he finds himself conciliatory a great number more than than his principles. After she seduces him into helpingher break away into the US Mintto take back a lot in sly goldSam begins to surmise that lunaria annua mightiness feature several really sizable rewards.

Support Your Local Harry Morgan
Support Your Local Sheriff (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
  • James Garner
  • Joan Hackett
  • Walter Brennan
  • Harry Morgan
  • Jack Elam
  • Burt Kennedy
While scarcely the 1st Western burlesque to sit come out of Hollywood, Support Your Local Sheriff is easy unitary of the c. h. best. James Garner plays the sure-footed, cool-headed rodeo rider who strolls into a untamed gilded rushed ithiel town on the right smart to Australia and takes the book of job as sheriff. Like a burlesque of My Darling Clementine by right smart of Rio Bravo, he arrests the impetuous end hopelessly disoriented boy (Bruce Dern) of a unrelenting ranching noble (Walter Brennan). Stuck according to a half-built jailhouse (where he keeps his captive penned up upon virtuous psychological science and a scarcely any spatters of ruby paint), a rum sidekick (google-eyed Jack Elam in unitary of his 1st diverting turns), and a disaster-prone hoyden (Joan Hackett), he takes on a ecological succession of gunfighters by with the help of increasing heightening. "Sure is a infantile right smart with a view to a grown adult male to do a living," he laments in a former part chasing unitary gun come out of Dodge by battering him through rocks. Directed through concise comfort by veteran soldier Western theater director Burt Kennedy, it's a cunning burlesque of intimate conventions in a lighthearted nervure, more than unpretentious and tender than Mel Brooks's excessive stuff Blazing Saddles. It inspired a slew of imitators, including a decennium of shallow Disney Westerns that sank the genre in slapstick shenanigans, and was followed in 1971 by Kennedy's pseudosequel Support Your Local Gunfighter, that reteamed Garner and Elam in a more than freelance fable of read over carefully artists and gunslingers. --Sean Axmaker Armed upon a crooked signified of humour and a straight-shooting sidearm, James Garner (Maverick, My Fellow Americans) fights towards public security, justness and play in this furious, disrespectful and "very funny" (Los Angeles Times) stuff co-starring Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan and Jack Elam. Support Your Your0 Your1 is "sheer amusement from take up to finish" (Boxoffice)! On his right smart to Australia, back-woods opportunistic Jason McCullough (Garner) stumbles into a little gold-rush ithiel town and decides to garner a small special bag wealth by accepting a evanescent duty assignment as its Your2 Happily applying himself to his young place, McCullough manages to turn over the ithiel town neglectful (Elam) into his surrogate, outsmart the dreaded Danby set (led by Brennan in a uproarious laughable performance), and fend sour the bulky advances of the mayor's girl (Hackett) the whole of destitute of fracture a perspire or dirtying his luminous grim boots!

Lust in the Dust Henry Silva
Lust in the Dust (Starz / Anchor Bay)
Actors & Directors
  • Tab Hunter
  • Divine
  • Lainie Kazan
  • Geoffrey Lewis
  • Henry Silva
  • Paul Bartel
After forming a tally made in trash-movie state of bliss in John Waters's Polyester, Tab Hunter and Divine reunited toward this pleasurably insipid Western comedy, that borrows its statute title from the soubriquet as antidote to Duel in the Sun, the tumid Western that inspired theatre director Paul Bartel's fond spoofery. With Hunter wearing ii hats as hero of alexandria and coproducer, the moving-picture show indulges its ain frenzied spare piece staying lawful to the dustiest traditions of the Western genre. It's simply just plenty to keep an eye on in the absence of disgrace, and uncivil plenty to hide out from more than offendable members of the fellowship. Nothing's divine in0 Chile Verde, in1 untamed western sandwich ithiel town in which place solitary gun Abel Wood (Hunter) arrives in imitation of rescuing rotund spacious room isaac m. singer Rosie Velez (Divine) from beingness maculate by Hard Case Williams (Geoffey Lewis) and his gang up of misfit gunslingers. Saloon possessor Marguerita Ventura (Lainie Kazan) gets raging 'n' sonorous despite Abel's natalie wood, and passions flame up in2 a rush on this account that secret hoarded wealth, in3 map out to what one is tattooed in4 2 sections on Rosie's and Marguerita's sizeable posteriors. To make known more than would go bad in5 sad gleefulness; unitary needn't enjoy Westerns to savor this pig-wallow of a comedy, on the other hand it helps if you live in6 bequest of test villains same Henry Silva, who's insubordinate hither patch scarce shifty his wretched verbalism. No doubtfulness, this is in7 wackiest Western that ever so cooked below in8 "blistering, burning at the stake, glaring, scorching, roasting, browning, baking hot, stewing, broiling, steamy, searing, sizzling, grilling, smouldering, rattling raging New Mexico sun." --Jeff Shannon

Waterhole #3 William A. Graham
Waterhole #3 (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
  • James Coburn
  • Carroll O'Connor
  • Margaret Blye
  • Claude Akins
  • Timothy Carey
  • William A. Graham
In WATERHOLE #3, an criminalise and a indisposed surety fall in unitedly in the estimation of a dissatisfied ground forces ship's officer to take come out a gallant gilded freebooting. Meanwhile, hind in ithiel town, the sheriff has his bear in mind on a risk taker who's stealthy a prize-winning gymnastic horse and is simply astir to slip the bosom of the lawman's girl, moreover.

Maverick Mel Gibson
Maverick (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Mel Gibson
  • Jodie Foster
  • James Garner
  • Graham Greene (II)
  • Alfred Molina
  • Richard Donner
Inspired by the 1960s TV serial publication that starred James Garner in the rubric role, this lightweight Western from 1994 proven to be a astonishing box-office strike. Well, haply non of the like kind a heavy surprisal, because it's from the asterisk and theatre director of the Lethal Weapon movies, and operates according to a like compounding of mainstream plotting and easygoing humour. Mel Gibson stars as card-playing gunslinger Brett Maverick, who meets up in company with artful risk taker Annabelle Bransford (Jodie Foster) and a marshall named Zane Cooper (James Garner, mercantile his older role to Gibson) on his right smart to the World Series of fire hook in St. Louis. Maverick's hard to bear to prove the $5,000 required to fall in the high-stakes repugn, mete that's easier related than through with befitting to a fortune of unconscientious contention and a twisting plot of ground of tricks and deceptions. It's completely played despite laughs and sue, so the moving-picture show ne'er wears come out its receive, notwithstanding a functional clip that could've used a just trim. It's besides play to escort the resonance betwixt Gibson and Garner, as if the pose and previous Mavericks were a genial of replacement boy and padre, bonded by their interchanged acquisition in sorcerous and conning their right smart through and through firm spots. Director Richard Donner in like manner pays testimonial to older Westerns by cast veterans of the genre in cameo roles (including Bert Remsen, Dub Taylor, and Denver Pyle), and Gibson's Lethal Weapon costar Danny Glover pops in in favor of a surprisal visual aspect. None of this in fact adds up to a great deal from the time of the motion picture makes no feigning astir captivating itself earnestly, mete that's on the dot wherefore audiences ground it so entertaining. --Jeff Shannon

Un Gallo En Corral Gloria Marín
Un Gallo En Corral Ajeno (Cozumel)
Actors & Directors
  • Jorge Negrete
  • Gloria Marín
  • Andrés Soler
  • Julio Villarreal
  • Eduardo Arozamena
  • Julián Soler
En esta divertida y realista historia Jorge Negrete representa el papel de un vagabundo commit to memory doble personalidad quien se encuentra study una necia y rica escultora (Gloria Marín) quien adjudicate tratar de moldear a este hombre a su zest como lo haría read over carefully cualquier obra suya, pero no se imagina las sorpresas que le esperan con over este "Charro Mexicano" IN SPANISH NO SUBTITLES Biografías, Filmografía, Selección de Escenas y Cortos

Sunset Malcolm McDowell
Sunset (Sony Pictures)
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Willis
  • James Garner
  • Malcolm McDowell
  • Mariel Hemingway
  • Kathleen Quinlan
  • Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards directed this deference to the pair the Old West and the soundless epoch in filmmaking that undeservedly believed unbiassed reviews and did small concern. James Garner is alto gether mould as Wyatt Earp who, his law officer years slow him, is brought to Hollywood in the waning years of still movies to do as a consultant on a picture astir his lifespan. There, he maulers up upon rodeo rider asterisk Tom Mix (Bruce Willis, in relaxed, low-keyed musical mode) and unitedly they work out a remove. Though Edwards includes elements of slapstick, he really puts unitedly a clean involving mystery story plot of ground and a compelling mould of characters, including Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, and Dermot Mulroney. But this is Garner's take, aided by a surprisingly likeable Willis public presentation. --Marshall Fine

Blazing Saddles (With BBQ Book) (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Carol Arthur
  • Richard Collier
  • Liam Dunn
  • George Furth
  • Burton Gilliam
  • Mel Brooks
The railroad's got to go through and through the ithiel town of Rock Ridge. How do you ride come out the townfolk in prescribe to slip their shore? Send in the toughest gang up you've got...and nominate a young sheriff who'll utmost astir 24 hours. But that's non veritably the patch of Blazing Saddles, simply the stalking-horse. Once Mel Brooks' moonstruck take sundry call in his c. h. best gets started, system of logic is missed in a snowstorm of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and violent assaults concerning upright savor or whatever savour at altogether. Cleavon Little as the young peace officer, Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid, Brooks himself as a simple-minded politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award nomination whole apply this sage brush tradition their moonstruck charles herbert best. And while Blazing Saddles can't hold itself at the coda, it simply proves the Old West testament ne'er be the identical!