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Support Your Local Sheriff!
Why this pick
Like The Villain, this is a knowingly cartoonish Western spoof, using deadpan heroes, broad villains, and escalating gags rather than conventional frontier stakes.
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MOVIE1979 1h 29m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Evil Roy Slade
Why this pick
This television Western spoof similarly turns an infamous outlaw into a ridiculous comic figure, favoring absurd situations and cheerfully oversized performances.
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Rustlers' Rhapsody
Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A beautiful woman, "Charming Jones" (Ann-Margret) is being escorted across the west by a naive, slow-witted cowboy, "Handsome Stranger" (Schwarzenegger) after claiming a large sum of money given to her by her father, Parody Jones (Martin). However, bad guy Avery Simpson (Elam), who delivered Charming the money, decides he wants it for himself. He hires an old outlaw, "Cactus Jack" (Douglas), to rob them when they leave town.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kirk Douglas
Cactus Jack
Foster Brooks
Bank clerk
Strother Martin
Parody Jones
Ray Bickel
Man
Mel Tillis
Telegraph agent
Laura Lizer Sommers
Working girl
Jan Eddy
Sheriff
Ann-Margret
Charming Jones