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.
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Title: Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| James Garner | ... | Latigo | |
| Suzanne Pleshette | ... | Patience | |
| Jack Elam | ... | Jug May | |
| Harry Morgan | ... | Taylor | |
| Joan Blondell | ... | Jenny | |
| Marie Windsor | ... | Goldie | |
| John Dehner | ... | Col. Ames | |
| Henry Jones | ... | Ez | |
| Dub Taylor | ... | Doc Schultz | |
| Kathleen Freeman | ... | Mrs. Perkins | |
| Dick Curtis | ... | Bud Barton | |
| Willis Bouchey | ... | McLaglen | |
| Walter Burke | ... | Morris | |
| Gene Evans | ... | Butcher | |
| Grady Sutton | ... | Elmer / Storekeeper | |
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James Garner plays a ladies' man who ends up on the run from a conquest. He has an embarrassing problem that requires a doctor, but that is not immediately disclosed. He and a town barsweep form a plot to impersonate a well-known gunfighter so that Garner can pay off his debts and skip town before the soon to come arrival of the real gunfighter. The cast is almost identical to Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) and the humor is similar. Typical: "You hit him from behind!" Garner: "Just as hard as I could!" Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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EnglishRelease Date:
14 May 1971 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Doc Schultz: Yeah!
Taylor Barton: Who was that fella?
Doc Schultz: None 'o your business! And speakin' 'o business, all you mine owners are a despicable lot. You keep hirin' people to kill people that other people hire people to kill your people. And on top 'o that you go elsewhere with your medical business and I have to doctor jackasses just to make ends meet. Now git outta' here, I got business to attend to!
Taylor Barton: Anybody ever tell you you've got a ROTTEN bedside manner?
Doc Schultz: Out!
Taylor Barton: And you talk too much! And I can't ...
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As this was a Cherokee Production, which was James Garner's own production company, there are many familiar faces, faces of cast members who worked with Garner on his series, including The Rockford Files (1974). See more »Goofs
Patience repeatedly says she wants to attend "Miss Hunter's College on the Hudson River, New York, For Young Ladies of Good Families." Hunter College was named for its founder and first president Thomas Hunter (not a "miss") and at the time of the movie was still known as the "Female Normal and High School." See more »Quotes
Taylor Barton: [Latigo has just left] Doc!Doc Schultz: Yeah!
Taylor Barton: Who was that fella?
Doc Schultz: None 'o your business! And speakin' 'o business, all you mine owners are a despicable lot. You keep hirin' people to kill people that other people hire people to kill your people. And on top 'o that you go elsewhere with your medical business and I have to doctor jackasses just to make ends meet. Now git outta' here, I got business to attend to!
Taylor Barton: Anybody ever tell you you've got a ROTTEN bedside manner?
Doc Schultz: Out!
Taylor Barton: And you talk too much! And I can't ...
See more »
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Garner's wonderful in this spoof, which is a follow-up to SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF. Still, this film has more than enough merits of its own. The humor after all these years still holds up, & it's one that needs to be viewed again & again. It's as fresh now as it was then.