Support Your Local Sheriffs and Gunfighters!
Reviews of Burt Kennedy’s western spoofs headlined by the ever-affable, dryly funny James Garner: Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) + Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) from Twilight Time.
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BR: Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
Burt Kennedy’s specialty was the western genre, having written scripts for the TV series Lawman, and directing Return of the Magnificent Seven (1966), the first of four sequels in United Artists’ popular franchise, but it’s perhaps his grasp of western tropes that made him the perfect director for Support Your Local Sheriff! – a western spoof written by William Bowers which predated Mel Brooks’ better-known Blazing Saddles…
BR: Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
Burt Kennedy’s follow-up to the hugely successful Support Your Local Sheriff! isn’t a sequel nor sort-of sequel, but a regrouping of the director’s stock company in an alternate reality where James Garner is trapped in a lawless mining town with feuding entities, and a combustible finale…
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