Support Your Local Gunfighter

Support Your Local Gunfighter is a 1971 comic western film starring James Garner, directed by Burt Kennedy, and written by James Edward Grant. The film shares many cast and crew members and plot elements with the earlier Support Your Local Sheriff but is not a sequel. It actually parodies Yojimbo and its remake A Fistful of Dollars, using the basic storyline of a stranger who wanders into a feuding town and pretends to work as an enforcer for both sides.

Latigo consults the town doctor Dub Taylor about an embarrassing problem that is not immediately revealed, but turns out to be a Goldierelated tattoo that he learns, to his chagrin, cannot be removed. Latigos seminal weakness is gambling he soon loses all of his money, and more, at roulette, playing his lucky number 23red. After hearing a rumor that the infamous gunslinger Swifty Morgan Chuck Connors is expected in town, Latigo concocts a scam With the help of amiable neerdowell Jug May Jack Elam impersonating Swifty, he schemes to pay off his debts and skip town before the real Swifty makes his appearance. In the process, Latigo attracts the attention of Patience The Sidewinder Barton Suzanne Pleshette, the hottempered daughter of Taylor, who desperately wants to escape this backwater frontier existence, attend Miss Hunters College on the Hudson River, New York, For Young Ladies of Good Families, and live a life of refinement in New York City. Latigo falls hard for Patience, and when he and Jug side with the Bartons in a dispute, Ames sends a telegram to Swifty informing him of the situation.Swifty arrives in town and immediately challenges the hapless Jug to a gunfight but at the appointed time and place, Latigo is there in place of Jug, sitting atop a donkey loaded with crates of dynamite in an attempt to bluff the gunfighter. Swifty calls Latigos bluff but as he draws his sixshooter, a particularly massive mining blast startles him, and he shoots himself in the foot. The blast also panics the donkey, who charges into the Bartons saloon with Latigo aboard, blowing the building to smithereens but the blast uncovers the mother lode, which conveniently sits beneath the Bartons land. The resulting inferno also fortuitously burns off Latigos troublesome tattoo, while miraculously leaving him uninjured. ........

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