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Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) was a Comedy - Western Film directed by Burt Kennedy and produced by William Bowers and Bill Finnegan.

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THE FIRST ANNUAL VALENTINE'S DAY MEET-CUTE BLOGATHON: Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)

on Feb 13, 2019 From Caftan Woman

The First Annual Valentine's Day Meet-Cute Blogathon is the brainchild of Phyllis Loves Classic Movies. Click HERE for all the wonderful movie moments. The cliches of even the finest westerns lend themselves to kidding, and fans are always up for a laugh. Writer/director Burt Kennedy (Seven Men ... Read full article

Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)

By Lindsey on Mar 5, 2012 From The Motion Pictures

Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969): 3/5 Support Your Local Sheriff! is a bit out of my film comfort zone. I’ve watched quite a few westerns, but it’s far from my favorite genre and I don’t watch them very frequently. So I decided to watch this on a bit of a whim. It was taped as a ... Read full article

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Support Your Local Sheriff! Quotes:

Joe Danby: [about his father] He's got a heart as big as the whole outdoors, but he don't have one brain in his poor old head.
Mayor Ollie Perkins: I guess you know what you're doing, Sheriff.
Jason McCullough: I don't know what I could have said to give you that idea, Mayor.
Joe Danby: Pa, you always told me there wasn't a jail been built that could hold a Danby.
Pa Danby: Well, now they've built one!
Joe Danby: Aww.
Pa Danby: You'll have to stay here for a couple of days.
Joe Danby: But we run this town.
Pa Danby: I gotta throw in with that sheriff that you don't exactly dazzle nobody with your intelligence.
Jason McCullough: Well, it seems Joe murdered a man this afternoon.
Pa Danby: The way I hear'd it, he killed a man in a fair gunfight.
Jason McCullough: I was standing right there.
Pa Danby: You was standin' right where?
Jason McCullough: In the saloon when Joe killed him.
Pa Danby: Well, now that was real smart of him, weren't it?
Jason McCullough: I've been around Joe all afternoon and I haven't seen him do one smart thing yet.
[Jason and Prudy are talking about how the Danbys are gathering to come after the sheriff]
Prudy: Have you figured what you're gonna do?
Jason McCullough: More or less.
Prudy: What?
Jason McCullough: Oh, I thought I might just leave town. Just get out of town before they ride in - just ride out and keep on goin'.
Prudy: I don't believe it.
Jason McCullough: Well, I don't know why not. I've never made any secret of the fact that basically I'm on my way to Australia. And I don't think I'm gonna find a better time to get started than right now. Besides, uh, I don't like the odds.
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Support Your Local Sheriff! Facts
Walter Brennan's part is a spoof of his part in My Darling Clementine, in which he is head of the Clanton clan.
Though not a sequel or related to the original story line, this movie was followed by Support Your Local Gunfighter with most of the cast intact playing similar characters.
The film's title is a parody of a bumper sticker popular around the time it was made, "Support Your Local Police" part of the "law-and-order" movement led by such politicians as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George Wallace.
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