This is a great old film - Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) Discussion

[–] brotherjeff1 21 years ago

This is one of my favorites!The cast is marvelously funny.Garner,Bruce Dern,Walter Brennnan were all terrific.Not to mention Jack Elam and Joan Hackett.
This is funny,clean entertainment!

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[–] carl170 20 years ago

Please, please, please see this great movie. Its a light comedy set in a western, also Romance is in the Air!

James Garner, is just the man for this lead role.
He is so funny without being funny. If that makes any sense, and yet he plays a straight role.

Wonderful film, and one that sould be in the top 250 films rating of this website.

All the actors were marvellous here.

Well done James Garner especially for making his role so believable and funny.

Please watch this film.

Carl Brown
[email protected]

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[–] RichN36 20 years ago

Dito

I would also add Herry Morgan to that list Its one of my top 100 all american films. never miss it when its on TCM. I also think that Support your local Gunfighter is a Classic.

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[–] rogerscorpion 18 years ago

I agree with the people who say this is a more successful comic western than Blazing Saddles--& I can recite the gags in this film. No one but Garner(@ the time) could play the witty, urbane gunman--who's also a crack shot. One needs only to watch Mel Gibson, in Maverick, to see this. Gibson's humor is more physical.

Carpe Noctem

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[–] Martin_Sloan 19 years ago

I still haven't been able to track down this movie, and to me it sounds like this is an underrated gem. Most people don't mention it, but those who do it, praise it. I like James Garner, and this movie sounds like a lot of fun.

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[–] carl170 19 years ago

You should be able to get this great film. Try this - http://www.play.com

Its a brilliant Comedy Western - one that you will kick yourselves for not getting sooner!

Tell your friends about this film as well. Tell them that Westerns aren't that sterotypical. They will love this film - every one it in plays there part well.

Should be in the top 250 films for this website.

Carl Brown - Ipswich, England

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[–] Tweedenfan 19 years ago

I got this film for Christmas on DVD, and just watched it last night. Awesome film, I remember seeing this film as a kid and watching it over and over. I also saw "Support Your Local Gunfighter" back then but I didn't like it as much. I think that's because I saw Sheriff first and Gunfighter just couldn't live up to that one. I gonna have to get it on DVD too and watch it, see if I like it better now that I'm older.

One thing I wish they did with the DVD is put more features on it. All it had was the trailer, talk about bare bones.

"There is always hope." - Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers

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[–] carl170 19 years ago

Did you vote for this film. Please remember to vote. Your vote counts and will allow for this film to get a higher placing. IT DESERVES IT.

Carl Brown
Ipswich, England

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[–] Tweedenfan 19 years ago

Yes I did, gave it a 10. It certainly deserved it.

"There is always hope." - Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers

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[–] maverick-154 18 years ago

Carl. How do I vote?

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[–] carl170 18 years ago

Just go to the film in question. Look for the voting box on the left hand side. I believe that it is half way down, on the left hand side. Click on that, and it will give you a chance to vore for this excellant film

Carl Brown
Ipswich, England

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[–] wildbillharding 18 years ago

Yes, of course it's a brilliant film. Support Your Local Sheriff has it all - a brilliant script and a perfect cast headed by one of the most underrated actors in the history of movies. Watch James Garner in Duel At Diablo for a much more serious, grimmer, character. Why he didn't make it bigger than he did is inexplicable. Perhaps it's something to do with the old adage that people won't visit the cinema to watch an actor they can see on TV free every week. Clint breaks the rule, but there aren't many others; Charlie Bronson, perhaps, although his series weren't anywhere near as successful as Maverick or Rawhide. Maybe viewers just thought of Garner as Maverick and didn't really want him in films, so he went back to TV in the highly watchable Rockford Files. (He was always busy but most of his cinema outings were financial disappointments, including Duel At Diablo). Like another often neglected, brilliant actor, Sam Elliott, he could and should have been as big as Clint and that he wasn't is a loss for all of us movie buffs. Jim Garner is one of the greats and should be recognised as such.

Bill Harding,
York, England

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[–] beresfordjd 13 years ago

Have to agree wildbillharding - I saw it when it was released and it is funny now as then. Garner is a marvellous talent capable of drama as well as the lightest of comedies. He is an actor you just cannot dislike.

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[–] Devans00 17 years ago

This movie is light and frothy fun. I recommend it to anyone in a bad mood who needs to laugh.

No two persons ever watch the same movie.

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[–] fbm72751 17 years ago

yes it is a GREAT film, and it also brings back great memories for me. Summer 1969 was good to me (I was too young to get drafted and get sent to get killed in Vietnam) Dad & I saw this film twice--once wasn't enough!

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[–] irisheleven 15 years ago

I saw this film at a drive in in 1969, it was double feature with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I've loved it ever since.

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[–] trf100 16 years ago

A favorite "bit" of mine in this film is when Elam (all covered in dried dirt & mud) goes to sit down in the sheriff's office and proceeds to "dust off" the seat of the chair first.

Classic sight-gag. LOL

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[–] intexor 13 years ago

I am very happy that this movie was on my local MGM channel and I happened to watch it. It was really worth it. Good funny comedy western, enjoyed it a lot. I knew James Garner already but it just happens I've been seeing quite a number of 60's and 70's movies with him recently and I really learned to appreciate him a lot more now.

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[–] w22nuschler 11 years ago

This film and the sequel are the two finest films Garner has ever made. He was also great in Great Escape. For some reason, I never loved him in Maverick or Rockford Files. I watch the "Support" movies every time they come on tv.

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[–] mrbluto-2 11 years ago

Great cast, great western parody pre Blazing Saddles.

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