Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

The sequel to Support Your Local Sheriff. I actually like this a little more: it’s a little bit sillier which means that more of it is actually funny. I’m not convinced that it’s necessarily a particularly good send up of the western (still) but it is amusing.

The plot concerns a town with two competing bosses trying to dig their gold mines at the same time. Latigo Smith (James Garner) slips off a late night train into town, trying to avoid an ill-advised marriage he has somehow found himself heading towards, and he is immediately mistaken for a famous hired gunfighter known as Swifty Morgan, bought in by one of the bosses. Smith, in term, poses as the agent for Swifty Morgan, and implies that his drifter friend (Jack Elam) is Morgan. There’s an amusing sideplot concerning removal of a dubious tattoo Smith has got depicting his ex.