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Support Your Local Gunfighter

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Comedy · Western · 1971

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

Movie details

Support Your Local Gunfighter

“The story of a man who took the law into his own finger!”

1971 Comedy · Western 1h 31m

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6.6 / 10

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A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

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Directed by

Burt Kennedy

Written by

James Edward Grant

James Garner

James Garner

Latigo

Suzanne Pleshette

Suzanne Pleshette

Patience

Jack Elam

Jack Elam

Jug May

Harry Morgan

Harry Morgan

Taylor

Joan Blondell

Joan Blondell

Jenny

Marie Windsor

Marie Windsor

Goldie

John Dehner

John Dehner

Colonel Ames

Court is in session

Put Support Your Local Gunfighter on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Auteur Devotee

“Form is the argument.”

Every composed frame and deliberate cut is evidence that control can be thrilling in its own right.

The prosecution The Adrenaline Seeker

“Technique in search of a pulse.”

Immaculate construction is still construction. The film may be too busy proving its craft to feel alive.