Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Noelle The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

SimonJack "Support Your Local Sheriff" is a very funny Western comedy with a supporting cast of actors playing roles against their usual character. Jack Elam has a good-guy role as deputy sheriff. Walter Brennan is a befuddled head of a clan who doesn't get his way by threat or force. Bruce Dern turns wimp when outdrawn and outwitted. Harry Morgan is a mixture of roles, but very funny. All of these characters provide much humor off the mostly straight sheriff, Jason McCullough. James Garner plays the new man in town who take the job of sheriff. But, much of the humor comes also from the sheriff's tricky conversations that the rest don't quite understand. Of course, it helps the sheriff's cause that he can outdraw and outshoot anyone. Beneath this, and interspersed in scenes throughout the film, is a romance building. Joan Hackett's Prudy is the daughter of the mayor, Olly Perkins (played by Morgan). She's smitten by Jason on first sight, and has some very funny scenes as she sets out to snare him. Of course, he's wise to her ways, but nothing will deter him from keeping his gaze on Australia. Oh, yes. He breezes into this Western town looking for work as he rambles his way toward Australia. The town has sprung up over night and is just a few years old after a handful of early settlers discovered gold. All of them struck it rich. Since then, the town hasn't been able to keep a sheriff to control the lawlessness. But that will change with the arrival of Jason. This is a wonderful parody of Western movies in which the Wyatt Earps and Bat Mastersons of real life and legend rode into wild Western towns and tamed them. The film has some funny antics and hilariously funny snippets. One is when Brennan's tough Pa Danby stomps into the sheriff's office and pulls a gun on Jason. The sheriff just sticks his finger in the barrel of the revolver and befuddles Danby. There's a very funny play on words in the name of the house of ill repute. It's called "Madam Orr's House" - painted in huge red letters across the top.Everyone should enjoy this film, although youngsters won't catch some of the humor. Parents can explain it as they see fit. Here are some favorite lines. For more funny dialog, see the Quotes section under this IMDb Web page on the movie. Mayor Olly Perkins, "Takes after her dear departed mother." Sheriff, "Her mother died, huh?" Mayor Perkins, "No, she just departed."Sheriff, "But the mayor seemed to think that my qualifications suited the job perfectly." Jake, "Well, he'd have thought that if you were blind in both eyes and crippled in both legs." Sheriff, "l think you've got the situation pegged, Jake."Jake, "I was raised up in Indiana." Sheriff, "Well, that could be either good or bad."Sheriff, "Pretty sloppy shootin,' Jake." Jake, "Well, I was in a hurry to save your life. I wasn't tryin' to group my shots." Sheriff, "If you'd have been standing five feet further away, you'd have missed him entirely."Sheriff, to Joe Danby, "He won't mind you murdering that man. He just doesn't like for you to get caught, huh?"Sheriff, "You meaning, whoever marries her gets the mine?" Mayor Perkins, "Shaft and all."Sheriff, "Well, when you set out to clean up a mess, you don't just sit around while the mess gets bigger and bigger."Mayor Perkins, "I guess you know what you're doing, sheriff." Sheriff, "I don't know what I could have said to give you that idea, mayor."Pa Danby, "I don't want nobody to make no martyr out of this here sheriff." Tom Danby, "What's a martyr?" Pa Danby, "Oh, I'm sorry. They didn't use words like that in the third grade, did they?" Tom Danby, "How would I know? I didn't get that far."Tom Danby, "You remember when I was stuck all those years in the second grade?" Luke Danby, "Oh, shut up."Sheriff, "Did he seem to feel any sorrow over the fact that we might all be killed?" Jake, "No. It's more like he planned to dance and spit all over our graves." Sheriff, "Sounds like Jake."

utgard14 Jason McCullough (James Garner) is just passing through town on his way to Australia (!). Needing money, he takes the job of sheriff and quickly finds himself at odds with the criminal Danby family. Very funny western comedy. It sends up the western genre gently without being condescending or insulting like so many western comedies are. James Garner is terrific as the level-headed sheriff, as quick with his wits as with a gun. Great character actor Jack Elam is lots of fun as his sidekick. Bruce Dern is hilarious as the dim-witted Joe Danby. Walter Brennan plays the patriarch of the Danby clan. One would assume this is a send-up of his role in My Darling Clementine. He's very funny as well. Harry Morgan is solid as always. Joan Hackett as the hotheaded Prudy nearly steals the show. I say nearly because Garner's flawless performance can't be beat. It's really a superb cast in a must-see film.

Dalbert Pringle In this two-fisted, double-barreled Western spoof from 1969, I'd confidently say that the big, burly James Garner was perfectly cast as the cool-headed, no-nonsense cowboy-turned-sheriff.Set in the good-old-days of the wild, wild West, Garner (with his own special brand of dry wit) played Jason McCullough, a sharp-shooting gambler/cowboy who, one day, drifts into the lawless, gold-rush town of Calendar, and before he knows it, he's been unanimously elected as their "new" town sheriff.Reluctant, at first, to take on this seemingly thankless job where all odds for success seem to be stacked against him, McCullough, surprisingly enough, keeps a cool head and actually manages to clean up dusty, dirty, old Calendar in record time...... Well, he almost cleans it up that fast.As it turns out, McCullough's still got to deal with the ruthless, cut-throat, shoot-em-up Danby Clan, headed by that big, ornery cuss who everyone calls "Pa".All-in-all - Support Your Local Sheriff was an enjoyable parody of a genre that's always ripe for a good-natured ribbing, now and again.

beresfordjd This movie is almost perfect - it does what a comedy is meant to do - it takes you by surprise with its wit and timing. It could not have been better cast as James Garner is at his best as the laid back sheriff of the title. When this was released it was a surprise to see Jack Elam playing comedy rather than the villain he was always cast as. Bruce Dern does his part justice too playing it straight as a die as the local bad boy brought to heel by Garner. The supporting cast are all excellent - the movie is peopled by all the faces you have seen in countless movies, doing their job and, in some cases ,stealing the scenes. I saw this movie when it was new and it still works 43 years later - it has hardly dated. Funny is funny and this film is funny. Enjoy.