Movie Information
Overall Rank: 29584
Average Rating: 1.9/4
# of Ratings: 6
Theatrical Release Date: 03/14/1959
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Henry Hull, Bruce Cabot, Ronald Squire, William Campbell
Plot: A proper Englishman moves out West and is hoodwinked into becoming town sheriff.
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2.5/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 02/12/2024
Some of the comedy is a bit cringe-inducing and dated now. But this western farce does benefit from Jayne Mansfield and Kenneth More having surprisingly good chemistry.
Rating of
2/4
dukeakasmudge - wrote on 08/24/2011
Good comedy that got better as it went along but wouldve been way better without all the singing
Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
1.5/4
"The Sheriff Of Fractured Jaw" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 05/10/2012
Kenneth More does his affable eccentric Englishman abroad as a gunsmith who inevitably becomes mistaken for a gunslinger during a range war. If film comedy were to be believed, there wasn't a real sheriff to be found in the whole of the west; Wyatt Earp probably really did pet shampoos. It's purely by the numbers stuff, as More woos Jayne Mansfield while inadvertently foiling the stereotypical cowpokes in what is essentially a Carry On film without the innuendo (Sid James even puts in an appearance as the town drunk). The only real surprise is that Mansfield became such a star; her uninspired musical interludes were dubbed by Connie Francis and she sure as hell can't act. Bob Hope and Jane Russell did this routine a whole lot better 10 years earlier in The Paleface films.
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