Support your local Sheriff DVD 1968 / Directed by Burt Kennedy / Starring: James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan

UPC 5050070021493

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: English mono, German mono, French mono, Italian mono, Spanish mono

Subtitles: French, Durch, Danish, Romanian, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, English HOH

TOTAL RUNTIME: 89 MINUTES

English Summary:

Support Your Local Sheriff! (also known as The Sheriff) is a 1969 American comedy western film directed by Burt Kennedy and starring James Garner, Joan Hackett, and Walter Brennan. The supporting cast features Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, Bruce Dern and Chubby Johnson. The picture was distributed by United Artists and produced by William Bowers (who also wrote the screenplay) and Bill Finnegan.

The film parodies the iconic story of the western hero who tames a lawless frontier town. Its title was derived from a popular 1960s campaign slogan "Support Your Local Police" 

The Old West town of Calendar, Colorado, springs up almost overnight when clumsy, hotheaded Prudy Perkins (Joan Hackett) notices gold in a freshly dug grave during a funeral. Her father Olly (Harry Morgan) becomes mayor of the new settlement. He and the other members of the town council (Henry Jones, Walter Burke) bemoan the town's descent into chaos and corruption, and are tired of the tolls exacted on their gold shipments by the Danbys, a family of near-outlaws who control the only shipping route out of town. The town has no sheriff, as most people are too busy prospecting, and the few who have taken the job have been run out of town or killed.

Jason McCullough (James Garner), a confident and exceptionally skilled gunfighter who says he is only passing through town on his way to Australia, sees Joe Danby (Bruce Dern) gun down a man in the town's saloon. Needing money after encountering the town's ruinous rate of inflation, McCullough takes the job of sheriff, impressing the mayor and council with his uncanny marksmanship. He breaks up a street brawl, and later at the Perkins house meets Prudy, despite her attempts to avoid him due to her embarrassing circumstances. McCullough arrests Joe and tosses him in the town's unfinished jail, which lacks bars for the cell doors and windows, keeping the dimwitted Joe in his cell through tricks and psychology.

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