Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

masterblaster1975 A cast of several well known actors, some of them bringing on one of their top performances, in a charming movie that does not pretend to be anything else than a western comedy.

SnoopyStyle The town of Calendar, Colorado becomes a gold boom town overnight when the town folks discover gold in a fresh grave during a funeral. It's the lawless wild west. The town is held hostage to the Danbys since they have to transport the gold through their territories. The town council including Olly Perkins (Harry Morgan) is desperate to find a new sheriff. Jason McCullough (James Garner) is new in town and gets into a argument with Joe Danby (Bruce Dern). Jason decides to take the job of sheriff which comes with room and board at the Perkins. His first job is to arrest Joe Danby and he recruits Jake (Jack Elam) as his deputy. Olly's daughter Prudy Perkins (Joan Hackett) is a hothead, accident-prone klutz.It's a fun slapstick western. James Garner is quite a sly leading man. He makes this work. Basically he's the only one in on the jokes. He's great at that character. The jail cell idea is hilarious. Jack Elam has the best look ever. For me, he will always be the crazy doctor in 'The Cannonball Run'. The weak point is probably Joan Hackett. She's fine in comedic acting but the chemistry isn't really there.

zardoz-13 "Return of the Seven" director Burt Kennedy struck pay dirt with James Garner in the side-splitting western comedy "Support Your Local Sheriff." This hilarious horse opera concerns a swift-shooting gunslinger on his way to Australia who stops in a gold rush town and takes the job as sheriff. Scenarist William Bowers wrote one of the five funniest sagebrushers ever to spoof westerns. When you get through laughing at all the gags, you will spot the resemblance between this western and the legendary John Wayne oater "Rio Bravo" as well as "High Noon."Basically, Jason McCullough rides into the wide-open, lawless town of Calendar and witnesses Joe Danby as the latter provokes another man in a saloon to pull his gun on him. As it just so happens, Jason is at the bar when Joe drops his witless adversary using a trick called the 'Arizona move.' Everybody agrees with Joe that he killed his opponent in cold blood. Everybody except Jason who points out how Joe fooled the man into drawing. After Jason is appointed sheriff by the mayor, he arrests Joe. Joe's tough-as-nails father,Pa (Walter Brennan) resolves to break his worthless spawn out of jail since Jason refuses to release him. Similarly, the Claude Akins character in "Rio Bravo" gunned a man down in cold blood at point blank range in "Rio Bravo" and the John Wayne character locked him up. When Akins' brother sought his release, Wayne refused to surrender him. Consequently, an army of villains laid siege to Wayne and his deputies in the sheriff's office. The difference here is that "Rio Bravo" was a classic drama, while "Support Your Local Sheriff" is a classic comedy. Unquestionably, "Support Your Local Sheriff" qualifies as Burt Kennedy's best western spoof. It is also James Garner's funniest western and has nothing to do with the subsequent spin-off movie "Support Your Local Gunslinger." The cast is insanely funny, too, especially Jack Elam as Garner's deputy, Walter Brennan as the chief villain, Bruce Dern as his murderous offspring, and Joan Hackett as the heroic heroine who shoots to kill. Western scribe William Bowers, who wrote the straight-faced oaters "The Law and Jake Wade" and "The Gunfighter," was no stranger to cowboy comedies. He penned the script for the Glenn Ford semi-comic western "The Sheepman." Howard Hawks once said you only need five decent scenes to make a good western. "Support Your Local Sheriff" boasts those five and more. The finger in the gun barrel scene in the jail, the delayed front street shoot-out, the tour of the jail scene, the rock throwing gunfighter scene, and jailbreak scene. The jailbreak scene is probably the high point of the action. Pa Danby and his two sons tie ropes to their saddles and attach the other end of their hemp to the cell window. You've seen this scene at least a dozen or so times in other serious westerns. The horsemen spook their horses and the cell bars on the windows pop out like a cork. This time when the villains spur their horses to tear the bars out, the bars remain anchored solidly into the wall. Instead, the villains and their saddles are pulled off their horses as the horses gallop away and leave the villains in the dust on their saddles. Bowers makes reference to "Red River" when Brennan hands over his store-bought teeth to one of his sons before he rides into a gunfight. Indeed, Brennan is playing a variation on his Ole Man Clanton character in "My Darling Clementine."

Boba_Fett1138 OK, so this movie ain't no "Blazing Saddles" but it also isn't trying to be. And how could they? Since "Blazing Saddles" got made 5 years after this movie. But yet of course every western comedy is going to be compared to "Blazing Saddles", simply because it's THE ultimate western comedy of all time. This movie however is good as a comedy western in its totally different, own kind of way. It has a more subtle comedy approach, even though it's still being filled with plenty of silly moments in it.It actually is a very simplistic movie. It has such a simplistic and predictable story in it, as if they didn't even tried to come up with a good, original story. But none of this matters really, since it's a movie that is all about its fun. It's such an entertaining and lighthearted movie to watch, that you're totally willing to forgive any of the movie its weaknesses and inconsistencies.It's also all because it's such a skillfully made movie. Despite it being a comedy, lots of money and effort was put into it, so that the movie looks and feels like an actual western from the late '60's/'70's.Also the acting is real topnotch. James Garner of course already had lots of western and comedy experience, prior to this movie, so he is obviously very at ease within this movie and feels comfortable and confident in his role, as new town sheriff, who has to deal with a not too bright outlaw family. Also the still very young looking Bruce Dern plays in the movie, in a good but foremost fun role, as does Walter Brennan, who is perhaps one of the most iconic western actors, from the earlier days of the genre. Lots of great and well known western actors appear in this movie, though most of them probably won't be recognized by anybody now days.Even though the movie doesn't has a too impressive story, most of its comedy still comes from its writing. There are lots of word jokes in the movie and lots of sexual innuendo hidden throughout, which works out all wonderfully, mostly also because all of the actors deliver their lines with a very straight face.Simply a joy to watch!8/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/