Support Your Local Sheriff

Support Your Local Sheriff


Starring: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, John Milford, Richard Hoyt, Robert G. Anderson, Marilyn Jones, William Tannen, John Daheim
Director: Burt Kennedy
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
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
Support Your Local Gunfighter/Support Your Local Sheriff
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Now that is real comedy!!
  • Support your Local Sheriff and Support your Local Gunfighter
  • Good, light-hearted family-friendly movies
  • Good fun!
  • Great
Support Your Local Gunfighter/Support Your Local Sheriff
Starring: James Garner , Suzanne Pleshette , Jack Elam , Harry Morgan , and Joan Blondell
Director: Burt Kennedy
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000062XFA
Release Date: 2002-05-07

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Now that is real comedy!!.......2007-06-27

What a treat, 2 movies with James Garner!! And many more in both stories. If you want to just enjoy a fun story with slapstick comedy, these are the ones I recommend. Their timing is terrific!!!

5 out of 5 stars Support your Local Sheriff and Support your Local Gunfighter.......2007-05-14

I purchased this package deal for my husband, who is a big fan of James Garner and Comedy films. We enjoyed both movies very much and recommend either or both to anyone. Just good fun and suitable for the whole family to watch!

5 out of 5 stars Good, light-hearted family-friendly movies.......2007-04-14

The movies are silly, but they are just plain fun to watch. They are light comedy and well worth watching if you like this kind of family friendly movies.

5 out of 5 stars Good fun!.......2007-02-08

My favorite westerns. Both are very well done and quite funny. I've seen them a hundred times.

4 out of 5 stars Great .......2007-01-24

These are great movies when you want to just sit back and relax.
Support Your Local Sheriff
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • How to support your local sheriff
  • Great Movie!
  • An affectionate, wry Western spoof, with fine jobs by all the players
  • An Excellent Western Comedy
  • Support Your Local Sherriff
 Support Your Local Sheriff
Starring: James Garner , Joan Hackett , Walter Brennan , Harry Morgan , and Jack Elam
Director: Burt Kennedy
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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  2. Cat Ballou
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ASIN: B000056H2F
Release Date: 2001-03-20

Amazon.com

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

Description

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!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars How to support your local sheriff.......2007-01-11

It was a gift for my brother who is a huge old movie buff - he has already watched it a few times since Christmas and calls me everytime laughing about something he has seen.

5 out of 5 stars Great Movie!.......2006-07-03

Support Your Local Sheriff is one of those great comedic efforts written back when the viewing public was intelligent enough to "get it". The characters and the writing is first rate. Casting should have won an Oscar! Humour from beginning to end with subtle and obvious one liners throughout.
5 stars barely is enough. Should be 10 STARS!

4 out of 5 stars An affectionate, wry Western spoof, with fine jobs by all the players.......2006-05-28

Jack Elam, with his one askew eye, was a guy who could watch two tennis matches at the same time without moving his head. As Jake, he's one of the reasons Support Your Local Sheriff! is as funny a Western spoof as it is. The other reasons include James Garner as Jason McCullough, Walter Brennan as Pa Danby, Joan Hackett as Prudy Perkins, Harry Morgan as Mayor Olly Perkins and Bruce Dern as Joe Danby.

McCullough drifts into the raw-boned, wide-open, gold rush town of Callender, Colorado, on his way, eventually, to Australia. He winds up taking the temporary job of sheriff, one in a long line of temporary office holders. Mayor Olly Perkins, who hires him, isn't exactly forthright about the short life spans of the previous sheriffs. McCullough comes up against the Danby clan, led by the mean old reprobate Pa Danby, when he arrests young Joe Danby for murder. And while Jason is staying at the mayor's home, he happens to fall for the mayor's daughter, Prudy, a young woman who seems to fall effortlessly into disasters. Providing back protection for McCullough is his deputy, Jake, who the day before was shoveling horse manure for a living.

Burt Kennedy was a longtime director of Westerns; he knows all the cliches and uses them with glee. What makes the movie work so well is the skill with which his actors do their jobs. Garner plays McCullough with laid-back cool, a wry man not to be rushed and, incidentally, very fast with a gun. Joan Hackett was a first-rate actress, and here she's not afraid to play a tomboy who always seems to put her worst foot forward. She's may fall face first in the mud but she comes up swinging. One of her best performances is in Will Penny. Walter Brennan just about steals the movie; it's a neck-and-neck tie between him and Garner. Brennan was a versatile, skilled actor who earned his three best supporting Academy Awards. He could play the home-spun preacher, the vicious outlaw, the hopping old coot. Here he's the fit-to-be-tied, rough-edged patriarch of a family of dim-witted sons. It's a nice performance. If you want to see just how good an actor Brennan was in his prime, watch him as Judge Roy Bean in The Westerner or as Old Man Clanton in My Darling Clementine. In another case of actorly theft, he effortlessly steals The Westerner from Gary Cooper. Bruce Dern as the remarkably stupid and dangerous youngest Danby adds to his list of off-center and funny portrayals.

Support Your Local Sheriff! is a well-crafted, affectionate spoof of Western cliches. It works so well, in my opinion, because it doesn't take itself seriously and because of some first-rate performances by any number of solid actors. The major drawback for me is the musical score. The movie is funny enough on its own that it doesn't need to have the music grab your lapels and tell you to laugh at a scene. The score does this over and over. The DVD is bare bones and, to my eye, looks fine.

5 out of 5 stars An Excellent Western Comedy .......2005-11-16

James Garner always does a great job in playing acerbic comic roles and his role in this one is no exception. He plays a man who is hired as sheriff in a gold rush boom town and who takes the job seriously enough to clean the place up. He does so with wit and charm and the bad guys never no what hit them.

Bruce Dern plays the first guy he arrests. He is a bad one but not to bright. This is a good thing since the bars for the jail have not been installed yet. Walter Brennan plays Dern's father. He is the head of the outlaw family but just can't seem to get his way with the sheriff. His performance too is a delight. Jack Elam plays the deputy and Harry Morgan plays the mayor. All do a wonderful job.

There is always something to laugh at in this one.

5 out of 5 stars Support Your Local Sherriff.......2005-11-09

"... Just passing through on my(his)way to Australia."
The Australian outback would never be the same!
Take one hilarious script, add a talented support cast,
James Garner's easy going sense of humour and you end up with the hit movie-"Support Your Local Sherriff"
Nicholas Shepherd (aged 12)Glossodia, Sydney, Australia
Support Your Local Sheriff! [Region 2]
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • How to support your local sheriff
  • Great Movie!
  • An affectionate, wry Western spoof, with fine jobs by all the players
  • An Excellent Western Comedy
  • Support Your Local Sherriff
 Support Your Local Sheriff! [Region 2]
Starring: James Garner , Joan Hackett , Walter Brennan , Harry Morgan , and Jack Elam
Director: Burt Kennedy
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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  1. Support Your Local Gunfighter
  2. Cat Ballou
  3. The Hallelujah Trail
  4. Maverick
  5. Operation Petticoat

ASIN: B00028HCGK

Amazon.com

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

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars How to support your local sheriff.......2007-01-11

It was a gift for my brother who is a huge old movie buff - he has already watched it a few times since Christmas and calls me everytime laughing about something he has seen.

5 out of 5 stars Great Movie!.......2006-07-03

Support Your Local Sheriff is one of those great comedic efforts written back when the viewing public was intelligent enough to "get it". The characters and the writing is first rate. Casting should have won an Oscar! Humour from beginning to end with subtle and obvious one liners throughout.
5 stars barely is enough. Should be 10 STARS!

4 out of 5 stars An affectionate, wry Western spoof, with fine jobs by all the players.......2006-05-28

Jack Elam, with his one askew eye, was a guy who could watch two tennis matches at the same time without moving his head. As Jake, he's one of the reasons Support Your Local Sheriff! is as funny a Western spoof as it is. The other reasons include James Garner as Jason McCullough, Walter Brennan as Pa Danby, Joan Hackett as Prudy Perkins, Harry Morgan as Mayor Olly Perkins and Bruce Dern as Joe Danby.

McCullough drifts into the raw-boned, wide-open, gold rush town of Callender, Colorado, on his way, eventually, to Australia. He winds up taking the temporary job of sheriff, one in a long line of temporary office holders. Mayor Olly Perkins, who hires him, isn't exactly forthright about the short life spans of the previous sheriffs. McCullough comes up against the Danby clan, led by the mean old reprobate Pa Danby, when he arrests young Joe Danby for murder. And while Jason is staying at the mayor's home, he happens to fall for the mayor's daughter, Prudy, a young woman who seems to fall effortlessly into disasters. Providing back protection for McCullough is his deputy, Jake, who the day before was shoveling horse manure for a living.

Burt Kennedy was a longtime director of Westerns; he knows all the cliches and uses them with glee. What makes the movie work so well is the skill with which his actors do their jobs. Garner plays McCullough with laid-back cool, a wry man not to be rushed and, incidentally, very fast with a gun. Joan Hackett was a first-rate actress, and here she's not afraid to play a tomboy who always seems to put her worst foot forward. She's may fall face first in the mud but she comes up swinging. One of her best performances is in Will Penny. Walter Brennan just about steals the movie; it's a neck-and-neck tie between him and Garner. Brennan was a versatile, skilled actor who earned his three best supporting Academy Awards. He could play the home-spun preacher, the vicious outlaw, the hopping old coot. Here he's the fit-to-be-tied, rough-edged patriarch of a family of dim-witted sons. It's a nice performance. If you want to see just how good an actor Brennan was in his prime, watch him as Judge Roy Bean in The Westerner or as Old Man Clanton in My Darling Clementine. In another case of actorly theft, he effortlessly steals The Westerner from Gary Cooper. Bruce Dern as the remarkably stupid and dangerous youngest Danby adds to his list of off-center and funny portrayals.

Support Your Local Sheriff! is a well-crafted, affectionate spoof of Western cliches. It works so well, in my opinion, because it doesn't take itself seriously and because of some first-rate performances by any number of solid actors. The major drawback for me is the musical score. The movie is funny enough on its own that it doesn't need to have the music grab your lapels and tell you to laugh at a scene. The score does this over and over. The DVD is bare bones and, to my eye, looks fine.

5 out of 5 stars An Excellent Western Comedy .......2005-11-16

James Garner always does a great job in playing acerbic comic roles and his role in this one is no exception. He plays a man who is hired as sheriff in a gold rush boom town and who takes the job seriously enough to clean the place up. He does so with wit and charm and the bad guys never no what hit them.

Bruce Dern plays the first guy he arrests. He is a bad one but not to bright. This is a good thing since the bars for the jail have not been installed yet. Walter Brennan plays Dern's father. He is the head of the outlaw family but just can't seem to get his way with the sheriff. His performance too is a delight. Jack Elam plays the deputy and Harry Morgan plays the mayor. All do a wonderful job.

There is always something to laugh at in this one.

5 out of 5 stars Support Your Local Sherriff.......2005-11-09

"... Just passing through on my(his)way to Australia."
The Australian outback would never be the same!
Take one hilarious script, add a talented support cast,
James Garner's easy going sense of humour and you end up with the hit movie-"Support Your Local Sherriff"
Nicholas Shepherd (aged 12)Glossodia, Sydney, Australia

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