Synopsis
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) is a comedy Western with James Garner that you can watch online on iFILM. Director Burt Kennedy takes the old fight-over-a-town setup and plays it purely for laughs. Latigo Smith, a marriage swindler, jumps off a train to escape yet another bride-to-be and lands in a mining town with the loaded name of Purgatory.
The place is split between two feuding mining outfits. Both mistake the drifter for the famous hired gun Swifty Morgan and race to put him on the payroll to run the other side off. Latigo doesn't bother correcting them — he inflates the legend with bluff and nerve, propping up a hopeless town drunk in place of any real skill. The bigger his reputation grows, the funnier it gets, since he can barely fire a pistol.
It's breezy satire of every Western cliché, a spiritual follow-up to Support Your Local Sheriff. Garner is in his element as the charming grifter, and Jack Elam steals half his scenes as the bumbling sidekick. A treat for anyone who likes old films that rib the genre with affection. Stream Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) online on iFILM.
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