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Release Date:
29 December 1939 (USA)
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Tagline:
THE GREATEST CAST EVER CORRALLED for a frontier drama like you've NEVER seen in all your born days! more
Plot:
Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when he asks one too many questions...
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Awards:
1 win
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42nd Street Moon Presents Destry Rides Again, Opens Halloween Night
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 31 October 2009, 3:00 AM, PDT)
Discover the Western Comedy of ‘Destry Rides Again’
(From FilmSchoolRejects. 18 January 2009, 3:44 PM, PST)
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 31 October 2009, 3:00 AM, PDT)
Discover the Western Comedy of ‘Destry Rides Again’
(From FilmSchoolRejects. 18 January 2009, 3:44 PM, PST)
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Clean and scrappy...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Marlene Dietrich | ... | Frenchy |
 | James Stewart | ... | Tom Destry Jr. |
 | Mischa Auer | ... | Boris |
| Charles Winninger | ... | Washington Dimsdale |
 | Brian Donlevy | ... | Kent |
| Allen Jenkins | ... | Gyp Watson |
| Warren Hymer | ... | Bugs Watson |
| Irene Hervey | ... | Janice Tyndall |
| Una Merkel | ... | Lily Belle |
| Billy Gilbert | ... | Loupgerou |
| Samuel S. Hinds | ... | Judge Slade |
 | Jack Carson | ... | Jack Tyndall |
| Tom Fadden | ... | Lem Claggett |
| Virginia Brissac | ... | Sophie Claggett |
| Edmund MacDonald | ... | Rockwell (as Edmund Macdonald) |
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94 min
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (certificate #5972) |
UK:PG |
Norway:16 |
Finland:K-16 |
Germany:16 |
Sweden:15 |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Ontario)
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James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich had an affair with lasted for the duration of filming. She later claimed that she had to have an abortion after Stewart made her pregnant.
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Revealing mistakes: When Destry first demonstrates his ability with a firearm by shooting at the knobs on the sign, he shoots a total of seven times. Although he is holding two Colt "Six-shooters", one in each hand, he fires only the pistol he holds in his right hand. Thus, he fired one round more than the gun could hold.
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[Wash announces he will send for Tom Destry to be his Deputy Sheriff]
Frenchy: But Destry's dead!
Bugs Watson: That makes him the right man for the job.
Gyp Watson: Save us a lot of trouble.
Washington Dimsdale: Is that so? Well, young Tom ain't dead and his father brought him up to be the toughest and fightin'est man that ever growed up in the West! He ain't got as big a name as his pa, but he cleaned up Tombstone and I'm sendin' for him to be my deputy and when he gets here, Destry will ride again!
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Frenchy: But Destry's dead!
Bugs Watson: That makes him the right man for the job.
Gyp Watson: Save us a lot of trouble.
Washington Dimsdale: Is that so? Well, young Tom ain't dead and his father brought him up to be the toughest and fightin'est man that ever growed up in the West! He ain't got as big a name as his pa, but he cleaned up Tombstone and I'm sendin' for him to be my deputy and when he gets here, Destry will ride again!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Beverly Hills, 90210: Destiny Rides Again (#3.12)" (1992)
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Soundtrack:
See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have
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It is true that there are parody elements in George Marshall's delightful "Destry Rides Again" but the real humor lies not so much in these sorts of antics, nor the heavily laid on inquiries of Marlene Dietrich as to the tastes of the backroom boys, but rather in James Stewart's no-gun Destry characterization…
This springs from the same source as Ford's 'characters', recognizable frontier independent-minded eccentrics, with a firm footing in American literature; characters often with a roundabout way of making a point, or pointing a moral, as with Destry's habit of prefacing each little cautionary parable with: 'I knew a fellow once who…' A habit that inevitably drew the aggrieved riposte: 'You know too many fellows, Destry…'
The other 'characters' in this film have more than a color or two of parody—Mischa Auer's improbable Slavonic cowboy, Charles Winninger's town drunk, Brian Donlevy, unprincipled boss, and Samuel S. Hinds' nicely played judge…
In retrospect, it's odd how much this movie gains from its rather touching little postscript… Stewart, the unconventional lawman, having pacified his cowtown, strolls the streets with a hero-worshiping lad at his heels, and yet also takes a little cloud of sadness along with him…
Marshall's film is considered a classic Western which manages to encompass suspense, comedy, romance, tenderness, vivid characterization, horseplay, songs and standard western excitements, without moving for more than a moment from a studio main street set… Hollywood expertise at its very best...