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Summary: A great comedy that extols lasting values.
Review: I strongly recommend Support Your Local Sheriff.The script is tight and economical. The cast is perfectly adapted to the characters. James Garner gives a beautifully understated performance in the role of the lead character, Sheriff Jason McCullough. Great dialogue, clever turns of phrase, ingenious subtle commentary on many elements of the human dilemma.
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Summary: I love this movie!
Review: I wish I could watch it right now. I wanted to watch it while I was on leave, but it was packed away and we couldnt find it at blockbuster. Sadness.
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Summary: Garner leads a Wild West Funfest!!!!
Review: In the Wild West, while "passing though" a gold-rush boom town on his way to Australia, Jason McCullough decides to earn some pocket money by taking the vacant post of sheriff. Armed with a quick draw and even quicker wit, the laid-back lawman is able to recruit the town drunk as deputy, win the heart of the Mayor's rather overreacting daughter and defeat the nasty Danby clan. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF is one of those classic western spoofs in which the typical cliches don't exactly apply. James Garner, who honed his "practical attitude" hero act in the "Maverick" TV series, is wonderful as the savvy sheriff. Jack Elam's quirky charm is put to good use as his loyal, yet reluctant, deputy. Henry Morgan is a hoot as the not-always reliable town mayor. Walter Brennan is appropriately cranky as the head of the Danby clan, while Bruce Dern gets laughs as his rather dim-witted son. From the obvious sight gag of "Madame Orr's House" to Elam's delivery of the off-beat epilogue, this flick never skips a beat. If you enjoy spoofs and the classic style of James Garner's Everyman, this is a film I would heartily recommend.
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Summary: Garner leads a Wild West Funfest!!!!
Review: In the Wild West, while "passing though" a gold-rush boom town on his way to Australia, Jason McCullough decides to earn some pocket money by taking the vacant post of sheriff. Armed with a quick draw and even quicker wit, the laid-back lawman is able to recruit the town drunk as deputy, win the heart of the Mayor's rather overreacting daughter and defeat the nasty Danby clan. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF is one of those classic western spoofs in which the typical cliches don't exactly apply. James Garner, who honed his "practical attitude" hero act in the "Maverick" TV series, is wonderful as the savvy sheriff. Jack Elam's quirky charm is put to good use as his loyal, yet reluctant, deputy. Henry Morgan is a hoot as the not-always reliable town mayor. Walter Brennan is appropriately cranky as the head of the Danby clan, while Bruce Dern gets laughs as his rather dim-witted son. From the obvious sight gag of "Madame Orr's House" to Elam's delivery of the off-beat epilogue, this flick never skips a beat. If you enjoy spoofs and the classic style of James Garner's Everyman, this is a film I would heartily recommend.
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Summary: "JUST ON MY WAY TO AUSTRALIA"
Review: IS THERE ANY THING FUNNIER THAN A STRAIGHT FACED MAN SPEWING OUT HUMOR? AND JAMES GARNER HAS A TREMENDOUS GIFT FOR BEING HILARIOUS
AND YET DOING IT IN A SEEMINGLY EFFORTLESS WAY.
BEFORE 'RAISING ARIZONA' OR 'OH BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?' THIS LITTLE PICTURE BROKE GROUND WITH DRY, OFF BEAT AND SOMETIMES CYNICAL COMEDY. GARNER PLAYS THE ANTI HERO TO THE HILT. HE IS A SIMPLE MAN WHO IS BASICLY "JUST ON HIS WAY TO AUSTRALIA." HE FINDS HIMSELF IN A QUIRKY 'GOLD STRIKE' TOWN THAT IS DESPERATELY IN NEED OF A SHERIFF.
HIS QUALIFICATIONS "FIT THE JOB PERFECTLY" AND THE BASIC PLOT IS SET.
GARNER IS SUPERBLY SUPPORTED BY VETERAN CHARACTER ACTORS LIKE JACK ELAM, BRUCE DERN AND A HOST OF WELL KNOWN OTHERS. THE WONDERFULLY WRITTEN DIALOGUE IS THE ABSOLUTE STAR OF THE SHOW WITH NUMEROUS MEMORABLE LINES THROUGHOUT THE PICTURE.
WHEN THE SPINELESS MAYOR SHOWS GARNER HIS HOME HE MENTIONS HIS 'DEAR DEPARTED WIFE' TO WHICH GARNER SAYS "YOUR WIFE DIED HUH?" AND THE MAYOR RESPONDS "NO....JUST DEPARTED." THE SIDESPLITTING SCENES ARE REALLY TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION AS THERE ARE SO MANY STAND OUTS. THIS MAY WELL BE THE BEST FAMILY COMEDIC WESTERN PIECE DONE TO DATE. RIVAL FILMS LIKE 'BLAZING SADDLES' WITH THEIR PROFANE ENUENDOS
PALE TERRIBLY IN COMPARISON TO THIS EFFORT. THIS IS ONE YOU CAN WATCH REPEATEDLY AND LAUGH JUST AS LOUD EACH TIME.
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Summary: Delightful western comedy. . . .
Review: It won't take very long to realize that Support Your Local Sheriff is little more than a feature length Maverick episode (unfortunately minus Jody Foster). Don't take that as a negative. This is a wonderfully entertaining romp through the silliest mining town you'll ever encounter. James Garner is terrific as the lightning quick gunslinger with even quicker wits. The supporting cast includes Harry Morgan, Walter Brennan, Bruce Dern and Jack Elam. This may be Elam's finest performance ever. There's plenty of action, plenty of laughter and a dollop of romance thrown in for good measure. Support Your Local Sheriff is great family entertainment; perfect for a rainy day, a lazy day, or just while you're passing through on your way to Australia.
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Summary: "He stuck his finger in the end of your WHAT?"
Review: It's dialogue like that - not to mention a brilliant cast and a slyly-executed script - that make 'Support Your Local Sheriff' an absolute riot. From the first scene in which a hilltop funeral goes south in more ways in one thanks to gold-rush fever, to the climax involving a dozen desperados and one misfired old cannon, 'Support Your Local Sheriff' is gleeful, giddy goofiness that predates 'Blazing Saddles' in the realm of Western spoofs.
In this rawhide romp, James Garner portrays Jason McCullough, a lone wanderer who's just stopped into town to pick up a couple extra bucks on his way to Australia, and decides from the look of things that the town is in serious need of law and order. Never mind the fact that the previous sheriff turned tail and ran less than an hour after taking his badge, or that the one before him got capped - McCullough quickly finds that he's got more pressing concerns to deal with: a supposedly 'escape-proof' jail that has all the latest fixings - except for bars on the cells; the nefarious if dim-witted Danby clan, with the great Walter Brennan as gruff patriarch, who make a habit of staking their own claim in this mining town outside of the law's reach even though they're none too bright about it; Jake, the slovenly, crazy-eyed deputy - played by the equally-incomparable Jack Elam - whose tenure scooping out stalls and his history of ill conscience doesn't earn him a whole lot of respect; a clump of weak-kneed city councilors headed up by Harry Morgan as Mayor Perkins, who would probably prefer to hold off on having law and order, if only to further savor the fine services provided at Madame Orr's House; and last but certainly not least, the Mayor's eccentric daughter Trudy, played wonderfully by Joan Hackett, whose mining inheritance seems to have driven her a bit loopy.
The film is a crackup left and right, and even the more serious and tender moments don't stray too far from laugh territory. In a genre that includes such memorable epics as 'Blazing Saddles' and 'City Slickers', 'Support Your Local Sheriff' is right up there among the greats.
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Summary: Support Your Local Sheriff
Review: It's hard not to give five stars to a movie that made me guffaw three times and chuckle the rest of the time. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF spoofs Westerns with such gentle affection it's difficult to dislike as well.
James Garner plays Jason McCullough, a dead-eye quick draw expert who's passing through the gold boom town of Calendar on his way to Australia. The lawless town needs a sheriff, and McCullough needs a grubstake, and, well.... Whys don't really matter a lot in movies like this. All that matters is that Garner plays a variation on his Bret Maverick character, surrounds himself with an excellent supporting cast, and everyone seems to be having a good time. Even the young Bruce Dern, who Garner arrests early in the movie, is more endearing than sinister. Walter Brennan, playing the gnarled old patriarch (he and his lawless brood own the town) and father of the jailed Dern, is delightful as he battles both Garner and the dim-wittedness of his three sons.
With his genial manner and chiseled-chin good looks Garner fared better on television than the big screen. Although physically imposing, it's hard to imagine him playing a bigger than life character. He was always better at poking holes in inflated cliches than enacting them. For instance, there's a scene where reluctant deputy Jack Elam is building a dreadful portrait of Pa Danby (Brennan) and the horrible things he'll do to free his son. In the middle of his speech Garner says "I think he's lonely." It's such a disarming thing to say that we can never accept Brennan as a serious threat afterwards. In another scene, tired of shooting down all the hired guns Brennan sends against him, Garner chases the last one away by throwing rocks at him.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF is too affectionate to be a satire and too generic to be a parody. Its closest ancestor is probably HIGH NOON, although similarities dissolve after you get past the embattled sheriff theme. If you a fan of westerns and want a gentle laugh, this one's a winner.
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Summary: Very funny. James Garner is awesome.
Review: James Garner is great in this movie. He plays a witty traveller on his way to Austrailia that decides to stop by and set a town straight. This guy could do anything. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: One of the all-time funiest movies
Review: James Garner is in top form as he plays a sheriff 'just on his way to Australia'. A great western that keeps you laughing the entire movie, it also adds just a touch of romance.
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