Console best movie i've ever seen.

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Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

moonspinner55 On his way to San Francisco by stagecoach, unemployed George Kennedy is robbed at a rest stop (while he's urinating) by old acquaintance Frank Sinatra as Dingus Magee, who works as an "ass breaker" (he breaks in donkeys). Kennedy takes up with Anne Jackson in the next town, Yerkey's Hole; she's both the mayor and the cathouse madam, and christens Kennedy the new sheriff after a roll in the hay (he must be a helluva lover!). Dingus is arrested (while making love to an Indian squaw), but he breaks out of jail, steals a chest full of money from a stagecoach and is captured by Apaches. The Indians in this movie, speaking in broken English and using 'funny' hand signals, are used as jokesters and punchlines, while Sinatra (in dark make-up) looks shamefaced throughout. This was probably meant to be a western lark, a goofy good time, but instead it's a visual and verbal insult. NO STARS from ****

ksf-2 Director Burt Kennedy does not seem to be related to lead George Kennedy. George won an Oscar for Cool Hand Luke, but D.D.M. was three years later, and a whole different film! This one is a corn-ball western. Hoke Birdsill (G. Kennedy) spends the whole movie chasing after Dingus Magee (Sinatra), after somehow letting Sinatra rob him and escape twice. Magee has goofy run-ins with the injuns, and Birdsill is deputized by the mayor (Anne Jackson), who also happens to run the local "cat-house". Some fun dirty jokes in here, but the plot itself is as dry as the sandy desert they are crossing. The usual show-downs and shoot-outs. The grand finale ending is pretty funny. Did you notice Jack Elam playing piano with handcuffs on? and did you notice that we hear the bell ringing the last five minutes of the film, but they keep showing the bell standing still, with no-one anywhere near it? Based on the book by David Markson.

zardoz-13 Writer & director Burt Kennedy concentrated largely on writing and directing westerns, some of them quite hilarious, such as "Support Your Local" and "Support Your Local Gunfighter" during his 44-year Hollywood career. "Dirty Dingus Magee" isn't as funny as the two "Support Your Local" spoofs that Kennedy helmed with James Garner. Part of the problem may be that Frank Sinatra doesn't make as amusing a protagonist as Garner. Furthermore,it isn't as funny as "The Good Guys and the Bad Guys." Considering the remarkable writing talent involved in this snickering horse opera, "Dirty Dingus Magee" should have emerged as far more than a fair-to-middling oater that generates its mirth from inconsistent helpings of satire, double entendre, and lowest common denominator slapstick that never really comes together with the cohesion of the "Support" westerns. Scenarists Tom Waldman of "Inspector Clouseau," Frank Waldman of "The Return of the Pink Panther," and Joseph Heller of "Catch 22" make a formidable troika. They adapted David Markson's novel "The Ballad of Dirty Dingus Magee," and they had to change Markson's 19-year old protagonist so that middle-aged Frank Sinatra would be acceptable in the lead role. Unfortunately, the humor here tends to more miss than hit, and some of it may flies so quickly that it might be noticeable only during subsequent viewings. The best set-piece in this light-hearted sagebrusher takes place when Brigadier General George (John Dehner of "The Left-Handed Gun") orders an emergency retreat drill at a bordello and his half-clad troopers scramble out windows galore to mount their horses. Some of the one-liners are memorable, too. Cathouse madam Belle Nops (Anne Jackson of "The Tiger Makes Out") remarks to one of her girls: "These army drills are hard on the girls." Belle's girl China Poppy (Marya Thomas of "Stay Away, Joe") replies, "Soldiers hard on, too." Occasionally, Kennedy replays one of his better "Support Your Local Sheriff" gags when our hero Dingus Magee struggles to open a strongbox festooned with chains. Magee wedges the box in the crotch of a tree, ties a rope from it to his saddle pommel and then gallops away. Predictably, instead of ripping the strongbox open, Magee is jerked unceremoniously backwards off his horse. Occasionally, Kennedy inserts quick antics, like a cavalry trooper leaving a prostitute who hands him a rooster and tells him to take his "cock" with him. Incidentally, the word dingus is Yiddish for penis.The shallow story concerns an insignificant outlaw with a $10 bounty on his head, Dingus Magee (Frank Sinatra of "Sergeants 3"), who is working at a stagecoach relay station when we first encounter him. A stagecoach stops to let the passengers stretch their legs and get a bite to eat. Magee recognizes his old friend Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill (George Kennedy of "Bandolero!"), but Hoke does his best to ignore him. Eventually, Magee shows Hoke where he can urinate without attracting attention. When Hoke turns his back on Magee, our anti-heroic protagonist nudges him with a six-shooter and snatches his derby. All along Hoke has assured Magee that he has only seven dollars in his wallet. As it turns out, Hoke has $400 stashed in his derby hat, and Magee steals it. Later, after the stagecoach pulls into the two-bit town of Yerkey's Hole, Hoke searches frantically for the sheriff and winds up discussing his predicament to Belle Nops, the madam runs the bordello and serves a mayor. Belle appoints Hoke as sheriff, and "Dirty Dingus Magee" depicts the back and forth shenanigans between Magee and Hoke as Hoke captures him and Magee escapes. Magee has a running romance with a young, sex-addicted, Indian maiden, Anna Hot Water (Michele Carey of "El Dorado"), who utters everything in an infantile idiom. For example, she refers to sex as "bim-bam." She addresses our hero as "Ding-goose." When General George threatens to remove his troops because the local Native American population poses no threat to the settlers, Belle and Hoke turn Dingus' escape from Hoke's jail into an Indian uprising.What possessed Frank Sinatra to this silly horse opera remains a mystery. He cavorts about in a toupee that makes him look like the large-eyed war orphan "Dondi" of the Gus Edson and Irwin Hasen comic strip that newspapers carried for thirty years. George Kennedy wears his attire so that he looks like Charlie Chaplin. A collection of seasoned western movie supporting actors, including Jack Elam, Don 'Red' Barry, Henry Jones, Paul Fix, and Harry Carey, Jr., show up for this half-baked hilarity. Lois Nettleton is cast as local schoolmarm Prudence Frost who is a closet nymphomaniac, an inversion of the formulaic schoolmarm in westerns. Kennedy and his scribes stand every western cliché on its head, but "Dirty Dingus Magee" labors for most of its laughs.

rbrooksie12 Don't watch this. It is such a waste of time. Sinatra was far too old to play in this movie, and a matter of fact, I would say this is by far his worst film. No wonder he only had one more starring role in his movie career. Dean Martin would have been a better actor to cast in this role. Dean featured the natural charm, wit, and humor, that did not come as naturally to Sinatra. Look at Dean and George Kennedy in "Something Big", a western from 1971. Not a bad film. As for George Kennedy, he doesn't do a bad job in this movie, but this plot, which is actually not so ludicrous, is made ludicrous by the unfunny and constantly overly forced humor. I've only given two movies before this a 1/10 on IMDb, and I've reviewed about 300 films, so trust me and skip it, even if you are a die hard Sinatra fan like I am.