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Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

Support Your Local Gunfighter poster
Directed by
Burt Kennedy
Genre
comedy film, Western film, parody film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
G
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 95 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A con man arrives in a small Western town and pretends to be a famous gunslinger. He gets tangled up in local feuds and romantic complications.

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What happens

Support Your Local Gunfighter is a 1971 American comic Western film directed by Burt Kennedy and starring James Garner and Suzanne Pleshette. The screenplay was originally written by James Edward Grant, who died in 1966; Kennedy rewrote it but let Grant keep sole credit. The picture shares many cast and crew members and plot elements with the earlier Support Your Local Sheriff! but is not a sequel. The supporting cast features Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, John Dehner, Marie Windsor, Dub Taylor, Joan Blondell and Ellen Corby. Garner later wrote that the film was, "not as good as Support Your Local Sheriff". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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