Movie
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Overview
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough.
Details
- Release date
- 1969-03-26
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Western
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Three Pictures, Cherokee Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- James Garner as Jason McCullough
- Joan Hackett as Prudy Perkins
- Walter Brennan as Pa Danby
- Harry Morgan as Olly Perkins
- Jack Elam as Jake
- Henry Jones as Henry Jackson
- Bruce Dern as Joe Danby
- Willis Bouchey as Thomas Devery
- Gene Evans as Tom Danby
- Walter Burke as Fred Johnson
- Dick Peabody as Luke Danby
- Chubby Johnson as Brady
Crew
- Burt Kennedy - Director
- William Bowers - Writer
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