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Tueur malgré lui

Original title: Support Your Local Gunfighter
  • 1971
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
7K
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Jack Elam, James Garner, Harry Morgan, and Suzanne Pleshette in Tueur malgré lui (1971)
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Dark ComedyComedyRomanceWestern

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.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.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.

  • Director
    • Burt Kennedy
  • Writer
    • James Edward Grant
  • Stars
    • James Garner
    • Suzanne Pleshette
    • Jack Elam
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    7K
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    • Director
      • Burt Kennedy
    • Writer
      • James Edward Grant
    • Stars
      • James Garner
      • Suzanne Pleshette
      • Jack Elam
    • 42User reviews
    • 30Critic reviews
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    James Garner
    James Garner
    • Latigo Smith
    Suzanne Pleshette
    Suzanne Pleshette
    • Patience Barton
    Jack Elam
    Jack Elam
    • Jug May
    Harry Morgan
    Harry Morgan
    • Taylor Barton
    Joan Blondell
    Joan Blondell
    • Jenny
    Marie Windsor
    Marie Windsor
    • Goldie
    John Dehner
    John Dehner
    • Col. Ames
    Henry Jones
    Henry Jones
    • Ez
    Dub Taylor
    Dub Taylor
    • Doc Schultz
    Kathleen Freeman
    Kathleen Freeman
    • Mrs. Perkins
    Dick Curtis
    Dick Curtis
    • Bud Barton
    Willis Bouchey
    Willis Bouchey
    • McLaglen
    Walter Burke
    Walter Burke
    • Morris
    Gene Evans
    Gene Evans
    • Butcher
    Grady Sutton
    Grady Sutton
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    Ellen Corby
    Ellen Corby
    • Abigail
    Ben Cooper
    Ben Cooper
    • Colorado
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    • Director
      • Burt Kennedy
    • Writer
      • James Edward Grant
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    7dch48

    Okay but not as good as it's predecessor

    This movie, while funny in many places, pales in comparison to the earlier Support Your Local Sheriff. The first movie, with much of the same cast, is a solid 10 but I can only give this one a 7 at best. All of the actors who were in both movies did a better job in the first one and Joan Hackett was surprisingly better than Suzanne Pleshette.

    They just aired them back to back and the superiority of Sheriff was glaringly apparent. Sheriff flows along smoothly with great dialog but this one seems to stutter and try too hard. The premise of the first movie is also better and the opening scene sets the tone for the hilarity that follows. Again this one just doesn't do that as well. I always liked Garner and he was brilliant in both movies but maybe they should have quit while they were ahead and never made this one.
    7preppy-3

    Not as good as "Support Your Local Sheriff" but still funny

    This was put out in 1971 because the 1969 Western spoof "Support Your Local Sheriff" had been a big hit. It shares an almost identical cast with the first one but isn't a sequel. In this one James Garner plays Latigo. He's a con man he gets to the town of Purgatory to escape from getting married. The townspeople thinks he's the legendary gunfighter Swifty Morgan who they sent for the settle a mine dispute. Also around are Taylor (Harry Morgan) who hired him, his high strung daughter Patience (Suzanne Pleshette) and Jug May (Jack Elam) who becomes his helper.

    This isn't as fun as the earlier one because most of the jokes here were already used or are pretty bad (the explosions the town has every once in a while was a poor running gag). Also Garner's character in this one is pretty obnoxious while he was nice and kind in the earlier one. Still, this does have its moments and the cast gives it their all. I was glad to see Joan Hackett (who I found WAY too shrill) from the first one replaced by Pleshette. Pleshette (who just recently passed away) is young, full of life and lots of fun. Her attempts to kill Garner were actually pretty funny. Also Elam is on hand again and just as funny as he was in the previous one. Heck he even has the same sort of closing speech again! So, it's not as good as "Sheriff" but not bad. I give it a 7.
    vox-sane

    Very Funny

    "Support Your Local Sheriff" was a very funny movie, so essentially the same cast and director to make another movie in the same style. "Support Your Local Gunfighter" is funnier without reference at all to "Sheriff", and if "Sheriff" hadn't been so good the flaws in "Gunfighter" wouldn't be so noticeable.

    Except for some mild language and extensive (and very funny violence), it's unobjectionable.

    Like "Sheriff", "Gunfighter" has James Garner as a western hero playing against the grain. In "Sheriff" he was a capable man "Just passing through on his way to Australia", and who, accepting the position of sheriff to clean up a town, seemed not to comprehend the western conventions the other characters were foisting onto him.

    In "Gunfighter", Garner is a west-hating coward who makes a living off women by his good looks. Fleeing the latest of his conquests, who thinks they're about to be married, he stops off in the town of Purgatory just to see a doctor then head on his way. Unfortunately the mayor (Harry Morgan) and his wackaloon daughter (Suzanne Pleshette) think he's "Swifty" Morgan, a gunfighter sent for by a business rival (John Dehner). Garner persuades them the gunfighter really is his newfound sidekick (Jack Elam), takes the money, and prepares to blow town.

    Chuck Connors, arriving at the end as the real "Swifty", proves, a decade before airplane, that having serious actors play deadpan in well-written comedies can be very funny indeed.

    Don't watch it on the same week-end as "Sheriff". There are no points of continuity between them, and, funny as this movie is, some of "Gunfighter"'s shine will be lost by the unavoidable comparisons with its superior predecessor.
    7Ron-181

    For the entire family

    Good wholesome family entertainment without any of today's obvious little references towards sex and bad language. James Garner always gives a fine performance with his flair for comedy. Be sure to also see "Support Your Local Sheriff". The kids will love it.
    8jeff-403

    funny send-up

    Not a sequel,but a companion piece to Support Your Local Sheriff,and a very funny spoof in it's own right.The cast underplayed it beautifully(not like todays hit you over the head variety).A special mention to Jack Elam,who had me in stitches.He was the master of the false bravado.Oldtime western fans will love it.

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    • Trivia
      The train in the opening credits and closing scene is Colorado's Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, which was then the Denver and Rio Grande Western. In 1971 the DRGW was still owner and operator of the line, and this track was still part of a class 1 railroad and not a tourist / heritage railroad. Even though DRGW was looking at the time for a buyer or just the permission to the interstate transportation board for abandonment of the rail grade. They would find neither until the mid 1980s. The scene was reused a year later in the italian western comedy Et maintenant, on l'appelle El Magnifico (1972).
    • Goofs
      In the bar fight, Patience places an empty beer mug on the chest of the knocked-out guy on the floor next to Latigo. The mug changes position by 90 degrees in the subsequent shot.
    • Quotes

      Jug: You hit that fellow from behind?

      Latigo: Just as hard as I could!

    • Alternate versions
      The Blu ray prints have the opening MGM and 2001 United Artists logos and closing MGM logo.
    • Connections
      Edited into Et maintenant, on l'appelle El Magnifico (1972)

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    • Release date
      • September 8, 1971 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Látigo
    • Filming locations
      • Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Colorado, USA
    • Production companies
      • Cherokee Productions
      • Brigade Productions
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $551,500
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 31m(91 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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