Support Your Local gunfighter - wikipedia Support Your Local gunfighter Support Your Local Gunfighter Theatrical release poster Directed by Burt Kennedy Produced by Bill Finnegan Burt Kennedy Written by James Edward Grant and, uncredited, Burt Kennedy Starring James Garner Suzanne Pleshette Harry Morgan Jack Elam John Dehner Marie Windsor Joan Blondell Kathleen Freeman Ellen Corby Music by Jack Elliot Allyn Ferguson Cinematography Harry Stradling Jr. Edited by William B. Gulick Distributed by United Artists Release date May 26, 1971 ( 1971 - 05 - 26 ) Running time 91 minutes Country United States Language English Support Your Local Gunfighter is a 1971 comic western film directed by Burt Kennedy and starring James Garner. It was written by James Edward Grant. The film shares many cast and crew members and plot elements with the earlier Support Your Local Sheriff ! but is not a sequel. It actually parodies Yojimbo and its remake A Fistful of Dollars, using the basic storyline of a stranger who wanders into a feuding town and pretends to work as an enforcer for both sides. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Plot Latigo Smith ( Garner ), a gambler and confidence man, is traveling by train in frontier - era Colorado with the rich and powerful Goldie ( Marie Windsor ). Goldie is besotted with Latigo and wants desperately to marry him, a fate of which he wants no part. He manages to slip off the train at Purgatory, a jerkwater mining town. Assessing the situation, he discovers that two rival companies of miners, led by Taylor Barton ( Harry Morgan ) and Colonel Ames ( John Dehner ), are racing each other to find a `` mother lode '' of gold buried somewhere nearby. Massive dynamite blasts periodically rock the town to its foundations, creating or embellishing various moments of comic relief throughout the film. Latigo consults the town doctor ( Dub Taylor ) about an embarrassing problem that is not immediately revealed, but turns out to be a Goldie - related tattoo that he learns, to his chagrin, can not be removed. Latigo 's seminal weakness is gambling ; he soon loses all of his money, and more, at roulette, playing his `` lucky '' number ( 23 / red ). After hearing a rumor that the infamous gunslinger `` Swifty '' Morgan ( Chuck Connors ) is expected in town, Latigo concocts a scam : With the help of amiable ne'er - do - well Jug May ( Jack Elam ) impersonating Swifty, he schemes to pay off his debts and skip town before the real Swifty makes his appearance. In the process, Latigo attracts the attention of Patience `` The Sidewinder '' Barton ( Suzanne Pleshette ), the hot - tempered daughter of Taylor, who desperately wants to escape this backwater frontier existence, attend `` Miss Hunter 's College on the Hudson River, New York, For Young Ladies of Good Families '', and live a life of refinement in New York City. Latigo falls hard for Patience, and when he and Jug side with the Bartons in a dispute, Ames sends a telegram to Swifty informing him of the situation. Swifty arrives in town and immediately challenges the hapless Jug to a gunfight but at the appointed time and place Latigo is there in place of Jug, sitting atop a donkey loaded with crates of dynamite in an attempt to bluff the gunfighter. Swifty calls Latigo 's bluff but as he draws his six - shooter a particularly massive mining blast startles him and he shoots himself in the foot. The blast also panics the donkey, who charges into the Bartons ' saloon with Latigo aboard, blowing the building to smithereens ; but the blast uncovers the mother lode, which conveniently sits beneath the Bartons ' land. The resulting inferno also fortuitously burns off Latigo 's troublesome tattoo, while miraculously leaving him uninjured. Latigo finally wins big at roulette, betting $10,000 of the Bartons ' money ( on 23 / red ). Latigo and Patience, now both rich beyond their wildest dreams, are married. Jug narrates the outcomes from the back of a train carrying the happy couple to the east coast. Patience does n't get to go to Miss Hunter 's College but sends her seven daughters there ; Swifty is still trying to get his boot off ; and Jug becomes a big star in Italian westerns. Cast James Garner as Latigo Smith Suzanne Pleshette as Patience Barton Harry Morgan as Taylor Barton Jack Elam as Jug May John Dehner as Col. Ames Marie Windsor as Goldie Dick Curtis as Bud Barton Dub Taylor as Doc Shultz Joan Blondell as Jenny Ellen Corby as Abigail Ames Kathleen Freeman as Mrs. Martha Perkins Virginia Capers as Effie Henry Jones as Ez Ben Cooper as Colorado Grady Sutton as Storekeeper Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez as Ortiz Chuck Connors as `` Swifty '' Morgan ( uncredited ) See also List of American films of 1971 References Jump up ^ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24064/Support-Your-Local-Gunfighter/articles.html External links Support Your Local Gunfighter on IMDb Support Your Local Gunfighter at AllMovie Support Your Local Gunfighter at the TCM Movie Database James Garner Interview on the Charlie Rose Show DEAD LINK Films directed by Burt Kennedy The Canadians ( 1961 ) Mail Order Bride ( 1964 ) The Rounders ( 1965 ) The Money Trap ( 1965 ) Return of the Seven ( 1966 ) Welcome to Hard Times ( 1967 ) The War Wagon ( 1967 ) Support Your Local Sheriff ! ( 1969 ) Young Billy Young ( 1969 ) The Good Guys and the Bad Guys ( 1969 ) Dirty Dingus Magee ( 1970 ) The Deserter ( 1971 ) Support Your Local Gunfighter ( 1971 ) Hannie Caulder ( 1971 ) The Train Robbers ( 1973 ) Sidekicks ( 1974 ) All the Kind Strangers ( 1974 ) Shootout in a One - Dog Town ( 1974 ) The Killer Inside Me ( 1976 ) Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid ( 1978 ) ( TV ) Wolf Lake ( 1978 ) The Alamo : 13 Days to Glory ( 1987 ) The Trouble with Spies ( 1987 ) Once Upon a Texas Train ( 1988 ) Big Bad John ( 1990 ) Suburban Commando ( 1991 ) Akira Kurosawa 's Yojimbo ( 1961 ) Films Sanjuro ( 1962 sequel ) A Fistful of Dollars ( 1964 ) Django ( 1966 ) Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo ( 1970 ) Support Your Local Gunfighter ( 1971 parody ) The Warrior and the Sorceress ( 1984 ) Death Wish 4 : The Crackdown ( 1987 ) Last Man Standing ( 1996 ) Omega Doom ( 1996 ) Inferno ( 1999 ) Sukiyaki Western Django ( 2007 ) TV Kaze no Yojimbo Inspirations Red Harvest ( 1929 novel ) The Glass Key ( 1931 novel ) / The Glass Key ( 1942 film ) Related Man with No Name Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Support_Your_Local_Gunfighter&oldid=847298383 '' Categories : 1971 films English - language films 1970s Western ( genre ) films 1970s comedy films American films American Western ( genre ) films American comedy films Western ( genre ) comedy films Parody films Films directed by Burt Kennedy United Artists films Hidden categories : Film articles using image size parameter Talk Contents About Wikipedia Català Deutsch Français Italiano Lëtzebuergesch Português Edit links This page was last edited on 24 June 2018, at 09 : 18 ( UTC ). 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Question: who played swifty morgan in support your local gunfighter
Answer: Chuck Connors