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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1971 DVD Release : 20 March, 2001 |
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Support Your Local Gunfighter description 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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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A fun take on the traditional Western and full of Garner's charm |
| This is 1971 follow on piece to the better "Support Your Local Sheriff" from 1969. But James Garner is so likable on the screen, the movie is so light hearted, and its conventions are so rooted in the old Western (rather than being an anti-Western that was so in vogue then and now) that how can one help but love it?
Garner is teamed up again with Jack Elam and they were dynamite together. Elam's worn down drunk provides the opportunity for many jokes with his look being the first one. He makes Garner look even more polished and handsome. And their friendship takes the edge off their being scoundrels because we see their good heart. You know, the Western convention of the bad person having a heart of gold. In this movie, Garner comes to town to take care of a problem and he meets Jug May (Elam) who goes along with a Garner's plan for Elam to impersonate (wonderfully unbelievably) a famous and deadly gunfighter named Swifty Morgan (whose identity is not revealed until the end - but it is Chuck Conners doing a turn and is not in the credits). Of course, Garner attracts all the women who come on screen. Of course, many of them are working in the local bordello - but with hearts of gold. However, the one who really wants him is Patience (Suzanne Pleshette), a rough what used to be called a tomboy, but she is really so beautiful it shines through the rough clothes they put her in. It is all light stuff with a predictable happy ending even if there are some little twists along the way. It is fine family entertainment as the old Westerns were. The threats are never too threatening, the love interests never get too raw, and the final reconciliation of the plot is suitably fun. It is FULL of traditional Western stars and friends of Jim Garner (this is pre-Rockford Files, by the way). Enjoy. |
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