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Support Your Local Gunfighter

Support Your Local Gunfighter

1971Movie⏱️ 1h 31mG
ComedyRomanceWestern
⭐ 6.8
IMDB Rating
7,116 votes

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

Director
Burt Kennedy
Writers
N/A
Stars
James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam
Release Date
May 14, 1971
Language
English
Country
United States
πŸ’¬ 43
Reviews
πŸ“‹ 4.1K
Watchlists
πŸ“½οΈ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

James Garner
James Garner
as Latigo Smith
Suzanne Pleshette
Suzanne Pleshette
as Patience Barton
Jack Elam
Jack Elam
as Jug May
Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan
as Taylor Barton
Joan Blondell
Joan Blondell
as Jenny
Marie Windsor
Marie Windsor
as Goldie
John Dehner
John Dehner
as Col. Ames
Henry Jones
Henry Jones
as Ez
Dub Taylor
Dub Taylor
as Doc Schultz
Kathleen Freeman
Kathleen Freeman
as Mrs. Perkins

πŸ’° Box Office

$551,500
Domestic Gross

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Color
Filming Location
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Colorado, USA
Production
Cherokee Productions, Brigade Productions

🏷️ Keywords

cowboy comedygunfighterdoctormining towncon artist

🎯 Categories

Dark ComedyComedyRomanceWestern

⭐ Featured Review

Sunday Morning Western Comedy
by silversurfer_umit β€’ 2006-12-03
7/10

"This is a comedy western movie but it is a different one because there is not much fight or gunfight in it. This is very sympathetic movie also funny in some scenes. Our hero is a new yorker guy that steals women money with charming them. He comes to west city but he doesn't like the west and the guns, horses and etc. People in this city thinks he is a hired famous gunman, he uses this identity. This is the general subject of the movie. Acting is good for a comedy movie, there is also romance and this is a plus for this one. I liked this movie and enjoyed when watching but if you look..."

πŸ’‘ Did You Know?

The train in the opening credits and closing scene is Colorado's Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, which was then the Denver and Rio Grande Western. In 1971 the DRGW was still owner and operator of the line, and this track was still part of a class 1 railroad and not a tourist / heritage railroad. Even though DRGW was looking at the time for a buyer or just the permission to the interstate transportation board for abandonment of the rail grade. They would find neither until the mid 1980s. The scene was reused a year later in the italian western comedy Man of the East (1972).

πŸ“– Synopsis

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.