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starring: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, Joan Blondelldirected by: Burt Kennedy
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302760095
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302760097
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: May 02, 2000
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 6842
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1971
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
James Garner returns for this pseudosequel to Support Your Local Sheriff, this time as a gigolo con man mistaken for a legendary killer. Escaping matrimonial entanglements, he lands in the town of Purgatory in the midst of a raging war between gold miners racing for the mother lode. In a play right out of Maverick, he quickly casts drifter Jack Elam into the gunfighter role and names himself the man's agent, selling his services to the highest bidder and pocketing a sizable commission. Garner double-talks his way through one deal after another with a wink and a smile while Elam growls and swaggers and rolls his eyes, playacting the role of the cold-blooded gunslinger like a wild-eyed clown. Suzanne Pleshette shoots up the town as Garner's romantic interest, a tomboy in buckskin with an itchy trigger finger and lousy aim, and Chuck Conners walks tall as the real bald-as-a-billiard-ball killer. Apart from the tongue-in-cheek tone and returning cast members (Elam, Harry Morgan, Henry Jones, and Gene Evans are among the familiar faces joining Garner), the film has little in common with Sheriff and never quite recaptures the clever twists and low-key hilarity, but this is a cast who knows how to deliver a gag, and Kennedy's laid-back direction keeps an even, affectionately spoofing tone throughout. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Support Your Local Gunfighter
Though the titles are similar, as is some of the cast, this isn't a sequel to Support Your Local Sheriff. In some ways it's the complete opposite of Support Your Local Sheriff. In Sheriff Garner was good with a gun, in this one he isn't. In this movie he's Latigo Smith, much more akin to Maverick than his character in Sheriff, i.e., he's slower with a gun & somewhat of a coward.
Latigo arrives in Purgatory (a town name that would've been perfect in an episode of Maverick) on the ... Read More
Rating: - A fun take on the traditional Western and full of Garner's charm
This is 1971 follow on piece to the better "Support Your Local Sheriff" from 1969. But James Garner is so likable on the screen, the movie is so light hearted, and its conventions are so rooted in the old Western (rather than being an anti-Western that was so in vogue then and now) that how can one help but love it?
Garner is teamed up again with Jack Elam and they were dynamite together. Elam's worn down drunk provides the opportunity for many jokes with his look being the first one. ... Read More
Rating: - Not Quite a Sequel
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF was a comic masterpiece and cried out, at least in terms on dollars and cents, for a sequel. So they made one, only it wasn't
Almost all of the cast from the SHERIFF appear in GUNFIGHTER but they all play completely different characters. Nothing is the same except that it takes place in the west and is funny, but not as funny as the original.
James Garner plays the role of Latigo Smith. He is a man on the run, not from the law but from a woman who ... Read More
Rating:  - Very Disappointing Follow-Up to "Support Your Local Sheriff"
"Support Your Local Sheriff" is a great James Garner comedy. "Support Your Local Gunfighter" is a disappointment, like so many sequels in the movie world. The "Gunfighter" script is as bad as the "Sheriff" script is good. For example, "Gunfighter" has nothing to match the great "prison without bars" gag in "Sheriff"
Rating: - James Garner is back...
James Garner is Latigo Smith, gigolo and con-man, who has a ton of problems. He hates to work, has a ex-fiance after him, a tattoo he has to get off his chest, needs money and has a gambling problem. And on top of all that he is now in Putgatory, a town trapped between two gold mines. Stars Harry Morgan, Suzanne Pleshette and Jack Elam. Funny. Not as funny as Support Your Local Sheriff, but funny all the same.
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