RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted February 26, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 26, 2016 Watched this film yesterdayhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheriff_of_Fractured_JawOK, ok I'm off work having succumbed to the dreaded viral lurgy. But given my liking for cinematic craziness I cant see how I have missed it until now although some web sites do allude to the link between this and Carry On CowboyWhich is rampant throughout the storyline!Gentleman promoted to Sherriff in rough town where several have died in short order...Hovering undertaker...House of Ill repute run by curvaceous madam (Jayne Mansfield - its worth watching for her corsetry alone, and she was pregnant at the time!...Crazy indian chiefThrough which Kenneth More plays an utterly straight bat! Brilliant.If you like the other spoofs see this one if you haven't already....Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devo63 Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 I've always enjoyed Westerns and quite like the comedy versions which pop up now and then. A recent addition to the latter is Seth MacFarlane's "A Million Ways To Die In The West" (2014) which is quite funny (at least I think so). Some earlier productions that are worth watching are the Marx Bothers in "Go West" 1940 and Buster Keaton's silent film of the same name from 1925. The 1965 film "Cat Ballou" is another one worth watching especially for Lee Marvin as a drunken gunfighter. Dave R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coppercap Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Thought this was going to be about the "Thousands" (aka Class 52).... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 D1074 "Western Cowboy" !! Brit15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidR Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 'Support your local Sheriff' 'Blazing Saddles' See these: hilarious! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted February 26, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 26, 2016 Carry On Cowboy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 There's a long tradition of spoof westerns - it's pretty much as old as the genre.All the old comics did them like "Abbot and Costello in Ride Em' Cowboy" (1942). Martin and Lewis did a movie named "Pardners" (1956)Bob Hope did several - I'm thinking first of "The Paleface" (1948) and "Son of Paleface" (1952).We have the reference to the Marx Brothers above.Frankly some of the 'classics' like Tom Mix or Roy Rogers were so cliched they were a spoof of themselves as were the singing cowboys like Gene Autry.Then there were the musicals like "Paint your Wagon""City Slickers" (1991) and "City Slickers 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold" (1994) are spoof westerns.In some respects even "Back to the Future Part III" is a spoof western.Here's a starting point if people are interested.Number one is always "Blazing Saddles". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinty3f Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 "The Three Amigos" in the style of "The Cisco Kid" also parodies the classic Magnificent Seven films and has some great one- liners from Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devo63 Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Carry On Cowboy With the avatar that you use it would have to be listed! Dave R. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffers Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 "A Million Ways to Die in the West" though I found the book more amusing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted February 26, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 26, 2016 Although he does look slightly more Sidney RoughDiamond than The Rumpo Kid.... Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted February 26, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 26, 2016 D1000s? well given the subject matter some double entendre was probably inevitable!!!! Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 'Support your local Sheriff' 'Blazing Saddles' See these: hilarious! I will say that "Blazing Saddles" has a particular problem these days when broadcast. There is a particular word that is used very often, and deliberately so, usually to highlight it's offensiveness. It is usually muted these days when broadcast which feels a bit incongruous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 'They call me Trinity' anyone? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coppercap Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Carry On Cowboy Says the Rumpo Kid himself! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted February 26, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 26, 2016 Blazing saddles has only ONE problem???? Hee hee Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Blazing saddles has only ONE problem???? I didn't say that! Actually it was great for reinstating the celebrity of Hedy Lamarr in pop culture, and significantly, though indirectly, making sure her contributions to engineering with her patent for spread spectrum frequency hopping is remembered in the tech community. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 I didn't say that! Actually it was great for reinstating the celebrity of Hedy Lamarr.... "That's 'Hedley'!!" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 I always did like James Garner in "Support Your Local Sherriff", mentioned earlier. Love the scene with Walter Pigeon's dumb son in the jail with no bars. There was a follow up movie with him, "Support Your Local Gunfighter" that also has its moments. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 In a time when the BBC offers us activists ranting that all the Oscar nominees are white, as serious news, I'm surprised "Blazing Saddles" gets shown at all.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopardml2341 Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 D1074 "Western Cowboy" !! Brit15 Not forgetting D1075, Western Spaghetti. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted February 27, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2016 Ref. Post #4 A few of us used to have sessions on railtours making up spoof loco names (beer was involved), IIRC the best 10xx one we came up with was D1074 "Western Extremity". Once we realised it made more sense than most of the real ones, we gave up. John PS. Warships were much more fun: e.g. "Bilious", "Impractical", Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Ref. Post #4 A few of us used to have sessions on railtours making up spoof loco names (beer was involved), IIRC the best 10xx one we came up with was D1074 "Western Extremity". Once we realised it made more sense than most of the real ones, we gave up. John PS. Warships were much more fun: e.g. "Bilious", "Impractical", "Indelible" ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Not forgetting D1075, Western Spaghetti. D1076 Western Supermare If I ever end up with a point-to-point horse, this is the name she will run under. "Indelible" ? Inedible Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted February 27, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 27, 2016 D1076 Western Supermare If I ever end up with a point-to-point horse, this is the name she will run under. Inedible Indigestible (more syllables means more points) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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