Support Your Local Gunfighter

Details

Release year: 1971

Storyline

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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Did you know

• 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 Man of the East (1972).

• James Garner, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, Henry Jones, Walter Burke, Willis Bouchey, Gene Evans and Kathleen Freeman all appeared together previously in Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969). Though this film is not a sequel to that one --all the above actors play entirely different characters in a different town--they all played similar characters to those they play here.

• As this was a Cherokee Production, which was James Garner's own production company, there are many familiar faces, cast members who worked with Garner on his series, including The Rockford Files (1974).

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $551,500

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Technical specs

Sound mix

Mono

Aspect ratio

1.85 : 1

Color

Color

FAQ

• What is the rhyme Doc Shultz says after waking up in the bar?
• What is the rhyme Doc Schultz (Dub Taylor) says when he wakes up in the bar? (at about the 45 min mark)