{"id":13508,"date":"2016-04-26T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13508"},"modified":"2016-04-26T12:34:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:34:50","slug":"support-your-local-sheriffs-and-gunfighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13508","title":{"rendered":"Support Your Local Sheriffs and Gunfighters!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JamesGarner_pic_s\"Years ago, when Toronto’s City TV was good old Channel 79, two films seemed to get regular rotation in the late night schedules: Burt Kennedy’s western spoofs\u00a0Support Your Local Sheriff!<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(1969) and\u00a0Support Your Local Gunfighter<\/a><\/strong> (1971), a pair of broad comedies starring the indestructible James Garner.<\/p>\n

I use the term indestructible because one could regard his career as Teflon-shielded, immune to bad reviews, weak\u00a0films & scripts, and shifting between genres and mediums. He was a star in film and TV, beginning when he upgraded from the cheeky TV western\u00a0Maverick\u00a0<\/strong>(1957-1962) to film classics\u00a0The Americanization of Emily\u00a0<\/strong>(1964),\u00a036 Hours<\/strong> (1964),\u00a0Duel at Diablo<\/strong> (1966), and\u00a0Grand Prix<\/strong> (1966).<\/p>\n

Alongside the\u00a0Support<\/strong> diptych, Garner also co-starred in the satirical race relations critique\u00a0Skin Game<\/strong> (1971), and when worthwhile characters became more sparse, Garner\u00a0moved back to TV, achieving his greatest success in\u00a0The Rockford Files<\/strong> (1974-1980), a series later reborn via a 8 decent TV movies in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

His subsequent film roles were largely smaller and supportive – Clint Eastwood’s extremely goofy\u00a0Space Cowboys<\/strong> (2000) succeeds purely because of its stellar older male and female cast – but his grin tended to act as an auger for any filmic weaknesses.<\/p>\n

Unlike Burt Lancaster’s signature grin\u00a0– broad and often a wink at the audience which could shatter a film’s suspension of disbelief – Garner’s grin showed the kind of humility that made even cartoon caricatures sympathetic, and making his more subtle wink at audiences oddly organic to a film. Kennedy’s comedic pokes at westerns are quite broad, but they’re refreshingly clever, and extraordinarily well cast with a mass of familiar faces known to fans of 60s and 70s TV, and Twilight Time’s neat double-bill upgrades these perhaps forgotten classics to HD with some notable extras.<\/p>\n

Coming very shortly:<\/em> reviews of two noirs from Twilight Time – Otto Preminger’s underrated\u00a0Where the Sidewalk Ends<\/strong> (1951) and the Encore Edition of Fritz Lang’s\u00a0The Big Heat<\/strong> (1953).<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[4405,2562,2563,4406,4409,4407],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Support_JamesGArner_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-3vS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13530,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13508\/revisions\/13530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}