Destry Rides Again

Movie

1939

1h 34m

English

Comedy, Western

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Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.

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Destry Rides Again

Movie

1939

1h 34m

English

Comedy, Western

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Cast

Tom Destry Jr.

Frenchy

Boris

Washington Dimsdale

Kent

Gyp Watson

Bugs Watson

Janice Tyndall

Lily Belle

Loupgerou

Judge Slade

Jack Tyndall

Lem Claggett

Sophie Claggett

Rockwell (as Edmund Macdonald)

Clara

Sheriff Keogh

Claggett Boy

Claggett Girl

Cowboy (uncredited)

Barfly (uncredited)

Indian in Saloon (uncredited)

Billy Bletcher

Pianist (uncredited)

Loren Brown

Juggler (uncredited)

Buck Bucko

Barfly (uncredited)

Directed By: George Marshall

Written By: Gertrude Purcell (Screenplay), Henry Myers (Screenplay), + 3 more

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soonertbone says...

one year ago

I'm really liking the early Jimmy Stewart roles I've seen lately, and I appreciated his taciturn approach to Destry in this one. Coming into a very wild town preaching non-violence and using wits above brawn was fun to see. Unfortunately, the rest of the film's cast (and the story itself) just never really came together for me. Odd for a town to have a sheriff when everybody seems aligned that a sheriff is not wanted.

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CinemaSerf

2 years ago

Brian Donlevy ("Kent") and Malrene Dietrich ("Frenchy") pretty much run the town of Bottle Neck. Everyone comes to their saloon where they blow off steam and where she regularly serenades them with some toe-tappers. Upstairs, "Kent" runs a crooked poker game and together they fleece gullible old "Cl More

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John Chard

6 years ago

Welcome to Bottleneck.

Deputy Tom Destry Jr. (James Stewart) rides in to Bottleneck and sets about ridding the town of its riff-raff elements - without guns!

Based on the novel by Max Brand, Destry Rides Again simultaneously spoofed the Western genre whilst reinvigorating Marlene Dietrich's fl More

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talisencrw

6 years ago

This was very interesting and I enjoyed it significantly. It's weird watching very early James Stewart--he's not what one would consider a conventional romantic male lead--and this is a very bizarre Western/comedy/musical. Anything starring Dietrich of this vintage is priceless, no doubt. Very weird More

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