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Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A quick-witted drifter wanders into a lawless town in the midst of a gold rush. Shocked by the prices of food and meals he reluctantly takes the job of sheriff by amazing the Mayor with his lightning quick, dead eye pistol accuracy. He makes the town council know that he is really just passing through on his way to Australia and he will pull up and leave anytime he chooses (including at the first sign of real trouble). His first day on the job he takes on the biggest, meanest ranching family and meets his klutzy love interest.
Style:
parody, funny, feel good, humorous, tense, light, romantic, clever, entertaining, satirical ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, satire, violence, courage, catastrophe, cowboy, desert, murder, suspense, lone hero, alternate reality, kids and family, runaway, childhood, chase, fighting the system, mentor, greed, alter ego, redemption, mayor, small town, culture clash, farce, surveillance ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
colorado, california, australia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, funny and light films with plots about runaway, catastrophe, mentor, dialogue, storytelling, culture clash and gunfight mostly in Western, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Support Your Local Sheriff!: They Call Me Trinity (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Wild Gals of the Naked West (1962), Goin' South (1978), El Dorado (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A town – where everyone seems to be named Johnson – is in the way of the railroad and, in order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is ...
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los angeles
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Western
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Duration: 105 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
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26%
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Jack Beauregard, one of the greatest gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe. But a young gunfighter, known as "Nobody", who idolizes Beauregard, wants him to go out in glory. So he arranges for Jack to ...
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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20%
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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