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Actors: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Harry Morgan, Joan Blondell, Jack Elam
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Support Your Local Gunfighter |
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This 1971 parody Western is a companion to "Support Your Local Sheriff!", made two years before, but with mostly different characters and plot. Two mining corporations are battling to get to the mother lode under a small Colorado boom town when Latigo Smith (Garner), a smooth-talking con man with a fatal weakness for the roulette wheel, rides the train into town. Both sides mistake him for the famed gunfighter Swifty Morgan, and try to hire him to sabotage the other. Smith takes on a sad case named Jug May (Elam) as his partner and pretends to everyone that Jug is Swifty while he plays off the two sides. Patience Barton (Pleshette), the daughter of one of the mine owners, provides extra comic relief and a romantic interest as a fearless, loud harridan known as "the Sidewinder," all too quick to fire a gun in quarrel (but fortunately a terrible aim), and dead set on getting "back East to Miss Hunter's College on the Hudson River in New York for Young Ladies of Good Family." Of course the real Swifty shows up (a mean-eyed Chuck Connors, with the seams of his bald headpiece showing), and Latigo has to do some REAL fast thinkin'. A terribly silly but satisfying hoot. Elam is especially memorable as the comic sidekick.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Support Your Local Gunfighter |
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Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 19th century
If a parody... of
- westerns
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- killer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- bald
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- (man) muscular
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
- dumb Rednecks, like Gomer Pyle
Misc setting
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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