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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
Critical arithmetic
The consensus, allegedly.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
IMDb
6.8 / 10
6.8K votes
Rotten Tomatoes
62 %
Tomatometer
TMDB
6.6 / 10
Community rating
External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.
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.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over Support Your Local Gunfighter?
For the defence
The Auteur Devotee
“You watch the director, not the movie.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Adrenaline Seeker
“If it slows down, you check your phone.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Burt Kennedy
Written by
James Edward Grant
James Garner
Latigo
Suzanne Pleshette
Patience
Jack Elam
Jug May
Harry Morgan
Taylor
Joan Blondell
Jenny
Marie Windsor
Goldie
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 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.