I went to see this with my sisters around noon. We told mom how good it was and went to see it again later. We all told dad when he got home from work how good it was so we went to see it again. So, I saw it the first three times in one day (at 8 or 9yrs old). I still watch it annually (or maybe more) because it is just too good not to. That adds up to 50+ times I have seen this movie and I do not regret a single watch. To the whole cast and crew I say thank you for making one of the greatest comedies ever
"You stay on that side of the line and everything should work out fine." "WHAAAAT???" That is such a classic scene and perfectly acted. You can just feel Joe's disbelief.
The conversation between Jim Garner and Jack Elam is a perfect illustration of why Garner was so widely popular as a star. A combination of friendliness, intelligence, humor and wisdom. How I'd have loved to have had a conversation with him.
James Garner is a classic, in the same vein as the likes of Jimmy Stewart. An elegant man, from a more civilized age. Actors and actresses these days feel like children compared to the greats of old.
You do understand what an actor is right? You do understand that's not a conversation between Jim & Jack? It called a script and they were both in character...
"Why that must've saved the life of whatever man was wearing that star." "Well it sure would've if it hadn't been for all them other bullets flying in from everywhere."
In short time he became one of the most memorable supporting players in Hollywood, thanks not only to his near-demented screen persona but also to an out-of-kilter left eye, sightless from a childhood fight.
I have always loved this movie. James Garner and Jack Elam worked so well on the Support Your Local ........ movies. Bruce Dern was just right for the part too.
Remember what the sheriff says: "No more shooting until the sun goes down" Random dude: "Was that what the sheriff's said?" Bartender: "Close enough" Lol
Why did they ever stop making movies like this? Funny, clean, irreverent and clever... James Garner was a talented actor. He could carry a movie like this effortlessly...
Because we don't have producers, writers, directors and actors like that anymore. Well, maybe some of each category, but finding them and getting them together? Very unlikely.
@@ayoubbelkas689 "he people back then wanted something gretty ' Kind of like the movie where Jack was killed by Harmonica. In the opening. Along with Woody Strode and someone I don't remember. They got spaghetti sauce all over them. That was after about ten minutes of squeal squeal close of Jack's eyes squeal another closeup squeal closeup of Woody's eyes squeal and same again for about ten minutes. Then three character actors get shot. Ethelred Hardrede
My grandpa, may he rest in peace, loved watching Jack Elam in westerns. He always called him "Ol' Bug Eyes", and everyone in the family knew exactly who he was talking about when he said it.
Elam: (excitedly) "I was raised up in Indiana!" Garner: "Well, that could be either good, or bad." Being from Indiana originally, this makes perfect sense. Extra hilarious if yer a Hoosier.
I love the scene where Joe tells his pop "Well, he lies to me about whether or not my guns' got bullets in it" and his dad is like "WHAT???" This is such a great and funny movie!
Support You Local Sheriff was one I watched with dad in the early 80s. Made the year I was born actually. Great great movie. And its really nice to see Elam play the good guy.
“How come you ain’t got a reputation?” “What would I want with a reputation? That’s a good way to get yourself killed! Now you just go on practicing while I put Joe back in jail.” 😂 😂 😂
@@55Quirll When they fly off their saddles in the "jailbreak"....Gene Evans tries to help dad and is slapped away". That movie was comic genius. I got to meet Garner when I was a busboy in Rancho Bernardo in 74'. Just a sweetheart of a man. Gene keeps saying "who?" when Brennen say's HE'S REALLY DONE IT NOW". Love it!
When I was a kid my dad came home with this movie from the rental store. He made us kids sit down and watch it. We were mad none of us wanted to see it. We laughed so hard through the whole movie. Been one of my favs ever since.
I always liked this movie! It was one of the few westerns made in the 60s and as a result a lot of the old actors who needed work got a job. Bruce Dern playing Joe in a rare comedy role, Jack Elam , Henry Morgan, and a host of other character actors who would soon find work in non-westerns appreciated the chance to show off their talents.
Shoobee63: A character he also played on "The Real McCoys" TV show! The cranky but wise old man, a character act which he started playing while in his 40s! Can you imagine this man singing and dancing on Broadway with Jimmy Durante?
This is an all-time underrated classic. Only James Garner, with his underrated acting, & the wonderful Jack Elam , could have pulled this off ! -----------------Witty -------------well done, & a classic.---------------------------WolfSky9
@@grf15 There's more choice on Western Comedies, than people think. Blazing Saddles, Support Your Local Sheriff, Support Your Local Gun Fighter, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Frisco Kid, Maverick, Wild Wild West, Wagons East, Three Amigos, Goin' South, A Million Ways to Die in the West, The Shakiest Gun in the West, and City Slickers, are some I can remember.
Support Your Local Sheriff and Support Your Local Gunfighter are both great Movies. I never get tired watching them, I always like the 60 40 conversation.
Bruce Dern had a great line in Down periscope. " I don't think it's good policy for the navy to turn over a billion dollar's worth of equipment to a man who has welcome abroad tattooed on his penis ".
The "Support Your Local...." movies were insanely funny. Just about the funniest westerns until "Blazing Saddles" came out. Jack Elam is one of the best "heavies" in the movies, and his comedy work is made even funnier because of all the years he was the bad, BAD guy.
Blazing saddles was terrible.......they went for low hanging fruit. The Support your Local's were extremely well written and acted and intelligent humor.
To add my agreement with the others, I love this movie. James Garner and the entire cast is perfect. Many of the actors are from the golden age of westerns 30's thur the 50's.
@@justjrandomuser Well, it's "Support Your Local Sheriff". Everybody had so much fun making it that most of them got together again the next year to make "Support Your Local Gunfighter", which is available for free on TH-cam. Too bad "Sheriff" isn't.
I loved watching the movie "Maverick" and trying to ID all the old timers in it. Another fun James Garner movie. Oh, and that other feller too I guess.
My favourite film of all time. How to clean up a lawless town without getting stressed whilst always being on the way to Australia and suffering from terminal niceness. Genius!
Garner and Elam was a funny duo...I like how he faked the guy out telling him he took all the bullets out then to rub it in Unloaded it infront of him after he goes back inside HAHAHA!
I took care of my great grandmother once a week so she could stay in her own house once a week and do errands around town. I used to watch old westerns with her because those were here favorite. She died a few months ago and I still miss her. Getting this in my recommended brought nice memories.
I remember when I first saw this movie about 40 years ago or so with my dad. I'm not exactly sure what year it was, but I was a kid at the time. My dad was very serious all the time. Except when he watched this movie. He laughed and laughed so hard during this movie, he could barely breathe. I've never scene him laugh so hard. It was so fun to see him laugh like that, because he was such a serious man at home. I'd never scene him laugh like that before, or since, that day. I'll always remember this movie for that.
WOW, Bruce Dern In His Younger Years, Bravo, & He's Still Alive. RIP James Garner..... He had sarcasm, Comedy In a Serious Type Role. & Classic Jack Elam, RIP Also........ & "No Shootin Til the Sun Goes Down" "Drinks Are On the House" Classic Cowboy Lines......
"... that's the poor fella who crossed the line earlier today" James.....gotta love him. I have no idea how many times I watched all the Rockford files and movies
Old crazy eyes Jack Elam, one of the greatest character actors ever. He could play it straight or screwball, protagonist or antagonist, he made you believe it.
Danby:" Joe Danby ...remember that name ! " McCullough: " Oh I will Joe .. in fact that's all I'mma do the rest of my life , is walk around rememberin' your name "
Sheriff saved that poor fool's life when he told him he'd taken all the bullets out of the gun. If he hadn't, the fool would have tried to draw a gun that was holstered near his shoulder height, and the sheriff is faster than him even if he'd had the holster on right. And, as we see just before that, accurate enough to drive a nail into a board by hitting it dead on with a bullet from quite a bit further away than he was from Mr. Too Thick To Listen The First Two Times.
Around this same time when James Garner and Bruce Dern made this movie "Support your Local Sheriff" Bruce Dern also made Hang Em High with Clint Eastwood.
This movie still is the best 90 minutes you can spend just smiling and laughing the whole way through ! James Garner at his best with some of the best character actors in the business just having a high old time !
Jack Elam was always good as a baddy but in this film his flair for light comedy certainly shone. Throw in heavyweights like James Garner and Walter Brennan as well as a host of other top-notchers (including Bruce Dern, Joan Hackett and Henry Jones) and you get one totally undervalued film that is, in fact, first rate and, remarkably, very entertaining. Thumbs up!!!
Ian Raper I have this movie on hard drive along with its follow-up (gunfighter) they are two of my favourite movies that I often re watch. Very underrated films
I grew up without TV and knew most films from tantalising bits in TV programs in magazines and from my grandma's retellings. This one is one of those few that live up to what I was imagining as a child and in fact _gets_ _even_ _better._ P.S. I clicked on this video super-fast when it came up in my recommendations because the jail without bars was always one of Grandma's favourite scenes when she was talking about the film.
@@ianraper4304 Both in this and Support Your Local Gunfighter, whenever Harry Morgan scoots into view, I just start laughing immediately to save time: you know that whatever line he's about to say is just going to knock you out of the park. So much intelligence in that man's mind (think of his dramatic moments as Colonel Potter), focused to a knife point of pure comedic power.
Not to take anything away from this very talented, amazing cast , but this was back when writers cared for the script and had a sense of humor, instead of the crap they pump out now!
I went to see this with my sisters around noon. We told mom how good it was and went to see it again later. We all told dad when he got home from work how good it was so we went to see it again. So, I saw it the first three times in one day (at 8 or 9yrs old). I still watch it annually (or maybe more) because it is just too good not to. That adds up to 50+ times I have seen this movie and I do not regret a single watch. To the whole cast and crew I say thank you for making one of the greatest comedies ever
Good story
Hell, that sounds just like the Beverley Hillbillies...LOL!
"You stay on that side of the line and everything should work out fine."
"WHAAAAT???"
That is such a classic scene and perfectly acted. You can just feel Joe's disbelief.
The conversation between Jim Garner and Jack Elam is a perfect illustration of why Garner was so widely popular as a star. A combination of friendliness, intelligence, humor and wisdom. How I'd have loved to have had a conversation with him.
James Garner is a classic, in the same vein as the likes of Jimmy Stewart. An elegant man, from a more civilized age. Actors and actresses these days feel like children compared to the greats of old.
You do understand what an actor is right? You do understand that's not a conversation between Jim & Jack? It called a script and they were both in character...
Elam was equally as skilled at serious bad guy roles, as he was at comedy.
Jack Elam may have had the highest IQ of anyone on the set. He was a CPA before he started acting.
@@jayhershey7525 Highly likely.
"Why that must've saved the life of whatever man was wearing that star."
"Well it sure would've if it hadn't been for all them other bullets flying in from everywhere."
"Support Your Local Sheriff" is one of the best comedies ever made. I love it. This makes me want to watch it again.
Along with Support your local gunfighter
@@charlesedge2429I love this movie but never cared for Support Your Local Gunfighter, to each his own though.
FUN FACT: Elam had walleye because in a childhood fight he had a pencil stuck in that eye, damaging the nerves that held the eye aligned.
That's awesome!
Thats one hell of a child fight. o.0
In short time he became one of the most memorable supporting players in Hollywood, thanks not only to his near-demented screen persona but also to an out-of-kilter left eye, sightless from a childhood fight.
I have always loved this movie. James Garner and Jack Elam worked so well on the Support Your Local ........ movies. Bruce Dern was just right for the part too.
Loved and missed James Garner. He was one of the good guys
War Hero !
I like Jack Elam as much as I like James Garner; two excellent actors.
I was about to type that here but I see that I've already said it a year ago. I still hold the same opinion.
Show me a bad actor in this movie.
I dare ya.
@@thehellyousay nope - ain't one in here - James Garner pretty much pairs up nicely with EVERY other actor in the movie!
@norman koval too true.
@@bored1ca I think every actor in this movie a had a shitload of fun making it, and that shines through.
"Well I was in a hurry to save your life, I wasn't trying to group my shots..." - that's got to be one of the funniest lines ever spoke in a western.
I actually laughed out loud at that line.
Really Ace Funny Western Film.
Well if he’d been 5 feet further away...he would have missed...!
Great comeback...
That movie was loaded with great lines.
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Garner is great, but Bruce Dern basically making fun of the bad guys he plays so well, gotta appreciate him.
Totally agree. It is so much fun to see Dern playing a comedic role for a change.
Yes, and everyone is a comedian, even Walter Brennan who's trying to be serious about taking out the Sheriff 👍😁
I don’t think they really going to hang me Pa i mean they laugh and a joke about it but I don’t think they really going to do it
@@pbrazor50 Comedic role for a change? Have you not seen Canonball run? 😶
Bruce Dern is also good with Walter Matthau in The Laughing Policeman.
The interaction between Jack and Jim is priceless.
Support You Local Sheriff Great Movie. James Garner was such a great Actor made everything seem easy.
Remember what the sheriff says: "No more shooting until the sun goes down"
Random dude: "Was that what the sheriff's said?"
Bartender: "Close enough"
Lol
That was gold
Alex : haha You forgot two words " That's & Brother The last line was " That's close enough brother " haha
Alex : haha Oh and also " Drinks on the house" haha
Why did they ever stop making movies like this? Funny, clean, irreverent and clever... James Garner was a talented actor. He could carry a movie like this effortlessly...
Probably because the two or three knock-offs that followed this one weren't nearly as good. ;)
because spaghetti western was a thing , the people back then wanted something gretty , and the hero with a questionable moral compass .
Because we don't have producers, writers, directors and actors like that anymore. Well, maybe some of each category, but finding them and getting them together? Very unlikely.
Because it was a Three Picture Deal. Says so in the credits. Really. It was the name of the production company.
Ethelred Hardrede
@@ayoubbelkas689
"he people back then wanted something gretty '
Kind of like the movie where Jack was killed by Harmonica. In the opening. Along with Woody Strode and someone I don't remember. They got spaghetti sauce all over them.
That was after about ten minutes of
squeal
squeal
close of Jack's eyes
squeal
another closeup
squeal
closeup of Woody's eyes
squeal
and same again for about ten minutes.
Then three character actors get shot.
Ethelred Hardrede
The great Jack Elam said of all the many movies he was in, this was his favourite. What a guy!
My grandpa, may he rest in peace, loved watching Jack Elam in westerns. He always called him "Ol' Bug Eyes", and everyone in the family knew exactly who he was talking about when he said it.
Always played the bad guy in his earlier films then moved to more comedic roles like this and the doctor in cannonball run. Hilarious
And he was in some damn good movies: Vera Cruz, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Once Upon a Time in the West...
... the doctor in Cannonball Run.
I love that movie. So much fun. University of Rangoon, wasn't it?
legend says he's still on his way to Australia
well not if he's dead ... he is already down under ;)
@@0623kaboom We all liked the guy, but we don't think he made it yet.
@@0623kaboom lol well said
...on his horse, no less!!!
I heard that story as well!
Elam: (excitedly) "I was raised up in Indiana!"
Garner: "Well, that could be either good, or bad."
Being from Indiana originally, this makes perfect sense. Extra hilarious if yer a Hoosier.
People with a good sense of humour are the best people.
Like the way these guys are downright forthright and honest with each other.
I love the scene where Joe tells his pop "Well, he lies to me about whether or not my guns' got bullets in it" and his dad is like "WHAT???" This is such a great and funny movie!
"He stuck his finger in the end of your WHAT?"
Im gonna find out
.....😂😂😂
Support You Local Sheriff was one I watched with dad in the early 80s. Made the year I was born actually. Great great movie. And its really nice to see Elam play the good guy.
Same here
“How come you ain’t got a reputation?”
“What would I want with a reputation? That’s a good way to get yourself killed! Now you just go on practicing while I put Joe back in jail.”
😂 😂 😂
Profound and hilarious.
Walter Brennen and his two knucklehead sons is priceless.
Gene Evans being one. First time I saw him was in 'Behemoth' , a 1950s Sci-Fi movie 👍😁
@@55Quirll When they fly off their saddles in the "jailbreak"....Gene Evans tries to help dad and is slapped away". That movie was comic genius. I got to meet Garner when I was a busboy in Rancho Bernardo in 74'. Just a sweetheart of a man. Gene keeps saying "who?" when Brennen say's HE'S REALLY DONE IT NOW". Love it!
Three. Three knuckleheads! 😂😂😂😂
@@Sparky0627 I was referring to the exchanges with the "two k-heads" while number three was "locked up". 😂
When I was a kid my dad came home with this movie from the rental store. He made us kids sit down and watch it. We were mad none of us wanted to see it. We laughed so hard through the whole movie. Been one of my favs ever since.
I always liked this movie! It was one of the few westerns made in the 60s and as a result a lot of the old actors who needed work got a job. Bruce Dern playing Joe in a rare comedy role, Jack Elam , Henry Morgan, and a host of other character actors who would soon find work in non-westerns appreciated the chance to show off their talents.
Jack Elam in hawmps was hilarious
Bruce Dern could play a bad guy, a good guy, and a somewhere in-between guy. Damn, we had some pretty good movies in the sixties.
Walter Brennan having a great time spoofing his "Ike Clanton" role from "My Darling Clementine" 20 years earlier :-)
Shoobee63: A character he also played on "The Real McCoys" TV show! The cranky but wise old man, a character act which he started playing while in his 40s! Can you imagine this man singing and dancing on Broadway with Jimmy Durante?
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Saw an interview with Bruce Dern, he had a blast doing this movie. He loved working with these guys.
James Gardner was awesome ,but so was jack Elam, Walter Brennan,Bruce dern Harry Morgan
A fantastic movie that is just as good today as the day it hit the theaters.
This is an all-time underrated classic. Only James Garner, with his underrated acting, & the wonderful Jack Elam , could have pulled this off ! -----------------Witty -------------well done, & a classic.---------------------------WolfSky9
Jake Elam was my favourite goody/baddie/character. Brilliant.
possibly THE greatest of all western comedies
between this movie and the trinity movies....
It's great, but greater than Blazing Saddles? I don't think so.
Not a lot to choose from, but I agree. Garner was great!
@@grf15 There's more choice on Western Comedies, than people think. Blazing Saddles, Support Your Local Sheriff, Support Your Local Gun Fighter, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Frisco Kid, Maverick, Wild Wild West, Wagons East, Three Amigos, Goin' South, A Million Ways to Die in the West, The Shakiest Gun in the West, and City Slickers, are some I can remember.
@@swyzzlestyx
Water Hole Number 3.
Support Your Local Sheriff and Support Your Local Gunfighter are both great Movies. I never get tired watching them, I always like the 60 40 conversation.
Those two and the two "Trinity" movies are the funniest westerns ever made.
James Garner, Bruce Dern ,Jack Elam a great movie
Loved Bruce Dern in the SiFi film "Silent Running".
Agreed! A rare role as a good guy and as lead.
He was better in this, and that is saying a lot.
Bruce Dern had a great line in Down periscope. " I don't think it's good policy for the navy to turn over a billion dollar's worth of equipment to a man who has welcome abroad tattooed on his penis ".
My favorite Bruce Dern movie will probably always be "The 'Burbs." Loved his performance in that one. =)
Great film! Silent Running is classic
“You stay on THAT side of the line, and everything should work out fine!”
“...what?”
Still a gut buster after all these years.cell with no bars
When you see what happened to the last one who crossed the line, those cells might as well be made of carbon steel.
Bruce and the rest make this movie. Garner's witty delivery makes it great.
"Take it easy boys. Me and the sheriff take a dim view of showoffs with guns". Love it.
"An' he lies to me about whether my gun is loaded!"
"He stuck his finger in the end of your WHAT??"
Jack Elam does comedy and NAILS IT!🤸♀️😺🤸♀️
The "Support Your Local...." movies were insanely funny. Just about the funniest westerns until "Blazing Saddles" came out. Jack Elam is one of the best "heavies" in the movies, and his comedy work is made even funnier because of all the years he was the bad, BAD guy.
Kenny Anderson He was the town character.
Loved James Gardner in this and maverick tv show.
Remembered the Movie details after seeing this Clip
Blazing saddles was terrible.......they went for low hanging fruit. The Support your Local's were extremely well written and acted and intelligent humor.
Book Snake One was 'Sheriff', the other was 'Gunfighter'. Almost the same cast but not considered sequels.
"Nobody's gonna offer any help... cheerful or otherwise." Love it.
One of my favorite westerns.
One of the best movies ever made. I've seen it at least 10 times and it still makes me laugh.
“Now you just go on practicin’ while I put Joe back in jail.”
One of the funniest and best of James Garner movies ever. Have it on dvd. He is constantly on his way to Australia. Hilarious.
MAVERICK was funny as hell too , with Jody Foster and Mel Gibson!
Sheriff, Gunfighter and Once Upon a Time in the West make for a great Jack Elam film festival!
James Garner and Jack Elam in the same scene... if we achieve NOTHING ELSE as a species - at least we achieved that
Amen!!
They did 2 movies together I do believe.
@@Ringking-ws7bz Yep, the second was Support your local Gunfighter.
@@55Quirll Support Your Local Sheriff was better it had Walter Brennan as a heel
@@Ringking-ws7bz True, there were similar actors in Gun Fighter, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan but not as funny though enjoyable 😉
If jails don't have bars then where's a prisoner going to get a drink?
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Jack Elam is gold in this movie. Garner too. Really all of them. Miss movies like this.
Funniest part is where he takes the bullets out of the gun. Oh That's funny... That's real funny. 😂
It shows the triumph of brains over brute force.
Well, Joe (the prisoner) wasn't exactly the brightest guy in town. His father and brothers weren't all that smart either.
It is!
Wouldn't the back of the revolver be seen and verifiable by Joe, to begin with?
pizzaman6320 My favorite part is where Harry Morgan says his wife isn’t dead just departed.
To add my agreement with the others, I love this movie. James Garner and the entire cast is perfect. Many of the actors are from the golden age of westerns 30's thur the 50's.
But no one says what the name of the movie is.
No one? Original clip poster does in the header, plus sixteen others.
@@justjrandomuser Well, it's "Support Your Local Sheriff". Everybody had so much fun making it that most of them got together again the next year to make "Support Your Local Gunfighter", which is available for free on TH-cam. Too bad "Sheriff" isn't.
I loved watching the movie "Maverick" and trying to ID all the old timers in it. Another fun James Garner movie. Oh, and that other feller too I guess.
My favourite film of all time. How to clean up a lawless town without getting stressed whilst always being on the way to Australia and suffering from terminal niceness. Genius!
Yep, it;s right up there in my top 5 and I am not much of a Western film buff. Support Your Local Gunfighter is right up there as well.
Garner and Elam was a funny duo...I like how he faked the guy out telling him he took all the bullets out then to rub it in Unloaded it infront of him after he goes back inside HAHAHA!
And the callback to that in Unforgiven, when Little Bill did take 1 bullet out of English Bob's gun. And in the prison.
Smoooooth acting from James Garner one of the best in the business. He make it all seem so effortless, all the while it's hard work..
How do you diffuse a murderously tense situation in the Old West?
Five Words:
"Drinks are on the House!"
That didn't work in Goodfellas.
The dialogue in this is just beautiful, I've got to get hold of this movie :D
"I'm from Indiana." "well, that could be good and bad."
Such a great movie. I really miss James Garner.
Me too.
I love that funny movie and miss James Garner too. Loved him in some, well not all, of his movies, The Rockford Files, and Maverick.
One of the best!!
@@WornoutRNPARAMEDIC I still watch Rockford files and I still love it
Thanks, Christopher Smith. I've always put James Garner up there with the greatest of them. Rockford Files is one of the greatest. So was Maverick.
I took care of my great grandmother once a week so she could stay in her own house once a week and do errands around town. I used to watch old westerns with her because those were here favorite. She died a few months ago and I still miss her. Getting this in my recommended brought nice memories.
You were a blessing to your Grandma cheers from Pennsylvania 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
One of my favorite comedies... Especially when Walter Brennan gets involved... "Get your finger outa my gun!" ... Thanks for posting the clip.
"Remember what the sheriff said, no more shootin' 'til the sun goes down!"
Is that what he said.
That's close enuf brother, drinks are on the house.
I love that bit. Hilarious.
It's a clever interpretation of what may have been said. Especially if literacy was very low.
This movie was great.
Remember what the Sheriff said, no shootin’ till the sun goes down! 😂😂😂
Take it easy boys! Me and the sheriff takes a dim view of showoffs with guns. 😂
Still one of the greatest westerns ever.
Totally agree with you I saw this film a few years ago loved it . Brilliant acting by all
I remember when I first saw this movie about 40 years ago or so with my dad. I'm not exactly sure what year it was, but I was a kid at the time. My dad was very serious all the time. Except when he watched this movie. He laughed and laughed so hard during this movie, he could barely breathe. I've never scene him laugh so hard. It was so fun to see him laugh like that, because he was such a serious man at home. I'd never scene him laugh like that before, or since, that day. I'll always remember this movie for that.
Loved james garner in maverick. Great in this and support your local gunfighter
Maverick,a great show with Garner.
This movie is hilarious. Lots of memorable lines. One of my favorites.
James Garner is one of my favorite actors. I just loved how his characters were always so laid back.
WOW, Bruce Dern In His Younger Years, Bravo, & He's Still Alive. RIP James Garner..... He had sarcasm, Comedy In a Serious Type Role. & Classic Jack Elam, RIP Also........ & "No Shootin Til the Sun Goes Down" "Drinks Are On the House" Classic Cowboy Lines......
"What's that"
"Oh that's the Feller who crossed that line"
Jack Elam could aim a gun in two directions at one time.
I heard he could rope a bear with a stick
Absolutely loved this movie.
I remember this movie from when I was younger. I still like this movie.
"... that's the poor fella who crossed the line earlier today"
James.....gotta love him.
I have no idea how many times I watched all the Rockford files and movies
The part with the red stain is my favourite scene in all westerns. Especially when you've seen the red stain be created.
Old crazy eyes Jack Elam, one of the greatest character actors ever. He could play it straight or screwball, protagonist or antagonist, he made you believe it.
I love thisa movie, watched it all the time growing up.
This was a great movie. Loved it!
jack elam..what a legend!
This is one of those movies that is just a joy to watch. One of those that is easy to watch and not think when sick.
Danby:" Joe Danby ...remember that name ! " McCullough: " Oh I will Joe .. in fact that's all I'mma do the rest of my life , is walk around rememberin' your name "
What a great movie. I grew up watching this movie, and the other film, Support Your Local Gunfighter. Anyone remember Texas Across the River?
Sheriff saved that poor fool's life when he told him he'd taken all the bullets out of the gun. If he hadn't, the fool would have tried to draw a gun that was holstered near his shoulder height, and the sheriff is faster than him even if he'd had the holster on right. And, as we see just before that, accurate enough to drive a nail into a board by hitting it dead on with a bullet from quite a bit further away than he was from Mr. Too Thick To Listen The First Two Times.
This is a great movie.
I loved James Garner Westerns.
This has some of the most pleasant dialogue I've heard in a movie in a long while
Maverick, Rockford, Garner - classic, timeless cool.
I just love this movie. A light fun western
Have you tried the series, Alias Smith and Jones?
Around this same time when James Garner and Bruce Dern made this movie "Support your Local Sheriff" Bruce Dern also made Hang Em High with Clint Eastwood.
I saw an interview where Bruce said he had the most fun doing this movie. He loved working with Garner and director Burt Kennedy.
and then a couple years after this movie he made The Cowboys with John Wayne and for a while he became the most hated man in America
This movie still is the best 90 minutes you can spend just smiling and laughing the whole way through ! James Garner at his best with some of the best character actors in the business just having a high old time !
"The Crimson Pirate" is its counterpart in a different genre.
Jack Elam was always good as a baddy but in this film his flair for light comedy certainly shone. Throw in heavyweights like James Garner and Walter Brennan as well as a host of other top-notchers (including Bruce Dern, Joan Hackett and Henry Jones) and you get one totally undervalued film that is, in fact, first rate and, remarkably, very entertaining. Thumbs up!!!
Ian Raper I have this movie on hard drive along with its follow-up (gunfighter) they are two of my favourite movies that I often re watch. Very underrated films
Michael Nesbitt - agreed. Also forgot to mention the late - and very great - Harry Morgan.
I grew up without TV and knew most films from tantalising bits in TV programs in magazines and from my grandma's retellings.
This one is one of those few that live up to what I was imagining as a child and in fact _gets_ _even_ _better._
P.S. I clicked on this video super-fast when it came up in my recommendations because the jail without bars was always one of Grandma's favourite scenes when she was talking about the film.
@@ianraper4304 Both in this and Support Your Local Gunfighter, whenever Harry Morgan scoots into view, I just start laughing immediately to save time: you know that whatever line he's about to say is just going to knock you out of the park. So much intelligence in that man's mind (think of his dramatic moments as Colonel Potter), focused to a knife point of pure comedic power.
Not to take anything away from this very talented, amazing cast , but this was back when writers cared for the script and had a sense of humor, instead of the crap they pump out now!
My dad loves these movies. He made me watch this recently (even though I didn't want to ) with him and I LOVED it!!!
Bruce Dern was always one of my favorite bad guys.
i just watched this movie today. Started off funny, but fizzled out on the humor. It was still a great movie.
Awww I hoped the tone was like this for the entire time. Guess I'mma pass, not a fan of westerns
TheDorianTube don’t pass on my account. It’s a good movie and worth a chance. Take care.
Finally watched this movie a coupla weeks ago..
'the tougest talk and blowhard i ever heard!' great lines in this movie
Just Brilliant ! Love garner and Elam in this film.
One of my all time favorites.
Excellent movie 👌
Great little movie. Always liked this one. James Garner.