Destry Rides Again
Channel: all the knowledge of the universe PRINCIPIA
Date: 2021-12-11

Destry Rides Again, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7906 / CC BY SA 3.0

#1939_films
#English-language_films
#1939_Western_(genre)_films
#1939_comedy_films
#American_films
#American_Western_(genre)_films
#American_black-and-white_films
#1930s_English-language_films
#Films_based_on_American_novels
#Films_based_on_Western_(genre)_novels
Destry Rides Again is a 1939 American Western film directed by George Marshall and starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart.
The supporting cast includes Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy, Allen Jenkins, Irene Hervey, Billy Gilbert, Bill Cody Jr., Lillian Yarbo, and Una Merkel.
The opening credits list the story as "Suggested by Max Brand's novel 'Destry Rides Again'", but the movie is almost completely different.
It also bears no resemblance to the 1932 adaptation of the novel starring Tom Mix, which is often retitled as Justice Rides Again.
In 1996, Destry Rides Again was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich in Destry Rides Again Saloon owner Kent, the unscrupulous boss of the fictional Western town of Bottleneck, has the town's sheriff, Mr. Keogh, killed when Keogh asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game.
Kent and Frenchy, a cheap saloon tramp who is his girlfriend, now have a stranglehold over the local cattle ranchers.
The town's crooked mayor, Hiram J. Slade, who is in collusion with Kent, appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale, as the new sheriff, assuming that he will be easy to control and manipulate.
However, Dimsdale, a deputy under the famous lawman Tom Destry, promptly swears off drinking, and is able to call upon the latter's equally formidable son, Tom Destry Jr., to help him make Bottleneck a lawful, respectable town.
Destry arrives in Bottleneck with Jack Tyndall, a cattleman, and his sister, Janice.
Destry i...