Support Your Local Gunfighter

Support Your Local Gunfighter
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBurt Kennedy
Written byJames Edward Grant
Burt Kennedy (uncredited)[1]
Produced byBill Finnegan
Burt Kennedy
StarringJames Garner
Suzanne Pleshette
Harry Morgan
Jack Elam
John Dehner
Marie Windsor
Joan Blondell
Kathleen Freeman
Ellen Corby
CinematographyHarry Stradling Jr.
Edited byWilliam B. Gulick
Music byJack Elliot
Allyn Ferguson
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • May 26, 1971 (1971-05-26)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Support Your Local Gunfighter is a 1971 American comic Western film directed by Burt Kennedy and starring James Garner and Suzanne Pleshette. The screenplay was originally written by James Edward Grant, who died in 1966; Kennedy rewrote it but let Grant keep sole credit. The picture shares many cast and crew members and plot elements with the earlier Support Your Local Sheriff! but is not a sequel. The supporting cast features Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, John Dehner, Marie Windsor, Dub Taylor, Joan Blondell and Ellen Corby.

Garner later wrote that the film was, "not as good as Support Your Local Sheriff".[2]

  1. ^ "Support Your Local Gunfighter". Articles. Turner Classic Movies.
  2. ^ Garner, James; Winokur, Jon (2011). The Garner Files: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster. p. 258.