Cox Tv Guide Destry Rides Again
Classic western-one-act
There are several reasons why Destry Rides Once more appeals to me. While I am not the biggest fan of westerns I practice think there are some jewels within the genre, and I dearest comedy when it's washed right. Destry Rides Again merges these 2 genres brilliantly. George Marshall does a fine job directing, I tin can understand why those would find his directing style flat but he allows the stars to have fun and has a nice understated approach to how he directs the film. This approach works.
The film still looks slap-up. The cinematography and editing are well-baked, the sets don't look as though they are made on the cheap and the costumes are cute to watch, and the music is rousing and compliments the mood wonderfully. The story is not as good every bit some of the other components but information technology is a fun, well-paced and relevant i. And there is a fine bandage. Marlene Dietrich, bandage against blazon here looks equally though she is having a ball and has some of the motion-picture show'southward best scenes and lines, and the wonderful James Stewart in his first western lead shows a believable chemistry(like fireworks I'd say!) and gives a very charming functioning. Brian Donlevy is deliciously snide and knows how to sneer and scowl, and Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger and Allen Jenkins are marvellous.
3 things peculiarly elevate Destry Rides Again to an even college level though. One is the rollicking humour, the dialogue in detail is cracking and delivered with a wicked sense of timing by the whole cast. Secondly, Marlene Dietrich performing the just fabulous See What the Boys in the Back Room Will take, that scene lone is a timeless classic. And finally, and possibly fifty-fifty the best of all, is the true cat-fight between Dietrich and Una Merkel, which equally far as I'm concerned has never been bettered.
Overall, a classic western-comedy and not to be missed. I think it could take been a tad longer, merely with everything else so good I don't mind so much. nine.5/10 Bethany Cox
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No Promiscuous Shooting In Clogging
1939 that celebrated high point of the Hollywood studio system turned out to be the break out twelvemonth for James Stewart. His career kicked into loftier gear with Destry Ridges Again and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. From just a good leading human these films guaranteed Jimmy Stewart screen immortality.
Destry was equally an of import film for Marlene Dietrich. Her career had come to a standstill and she had been permit go from her original American studio, Paramount. A whole lot of people said she was through in Hollywood, but Marlene showed them all.
This is the 2nd picture show adaption of the story, a 1932 version was done by Tom Mix, one of his terminal films and ane of his few audio ones. This one however is THE standard version.
Destry Rides Again was directed past George Marshall who was very practiced at mixing humour and drama to make some groovy films. This one is probably Marshall'due south greatest. Among Hollywood directors from the studio age, he is sadly forgotten.
The town of Clogging is one rip roaring place with a whole lot of promiscuous shooting going on. It's a pretty corrupt place run by saloon owner Brian Donlevy and his stooge mayor Samuel Southward. Hinds. When the sheriff is killed they 'elect' the boondocks drunk Charles Winninger as the new sheriff.
Simply Winninger who was a deputy sheriff at ane time sends for the son of his former boss Thomas Jefferson Destry played by Jimmy Stewart. Destry makes quite an entrance into Clogging, running afoul of saloon entertainer Marlene Dietrich. His arrival in Bottleneck up to his commencement run across with Marlene are some of the funniest moments ever put on screen.
Destry Rides Once again gave Marlene one of her classic ballads, See What the Boys in the Backroom Will Take also as Piddling Joe, the Wrangler. Who would ever take thought that the girl from Germany would wind upwardly having one of her most noted movie roles as a western saloon entertainer. But Marlene created an enduring character, so much so that Mel Brooks and Madeline Kahn gave her a real heartfelt tribute in Blazing Saddles. I'll bet Marlene enjoyed that one also.
James Stewart did not render to the western genre until Winchester 73 and Cleaved Arrow xi years afterwards. But this was 1 great picture to make a debut in that film art course.
You won't indulge in whatsoever promiscuous shooting while Destry is on the job.
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Stewart Steals the Show
I don't know what it was nigh James Stewart. Was it his ho-hum drawl? Was information technology his introspective kind of analyzing of situations. When his Destry arrives in Bottleneck, he becomes the laughing stock of the community. Of grade, nothing phases him, and he is willing to take care of business concern on his ain terms. The bad guys take had their way with the community, including the committing of cowardly murders. Destry'south father was a corking lawman, just he ended up with a bullet in his back. In that location is a lot of comedy in this motion picture, much of information technology involving Stewart and the irrepressible Marlene Dietrich, who has left the confines of Berlin and headed for the Onetime Westward. She is no shrinking violet and has her own agenda, but we know that our soft spoken guy is going to make a point.
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Westerns don't become any amend than this!
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Itself a remake, this is a practically perfect comic western (with serious overtones) nearly a new way for proclaiming peace in a violent town that has rebelled against law and order for decades. They are so determined to continue this office of the wild west that the town judge declares the town drunk (Charles Winninger) the new sheriff. But much to their surprise, Winninger instantly sobers up, and adamant to accolade the retentivity of the belatedly Sheriff Tom Destry (whom he was a sober deputy nether), Winninger brings his son (James Stewart) to town.
There's more than only unruly drunks in this boondocks, there's also the dishonest judge (Samuel S. Hinds), ruthless power-broker (Brian Donlevy) and the fiery saloon vocalist (Marlene Dietrich) who is involved in the corruption every bit much as Hinds and Donlevy. Buy being a woman, at to the lowest degree ane of the classic Hollywood kind, she'due south also got heart, although you wouldn't know information technology from her floozy image.
There's a classic true cat-fight between Dietrich and the every bit hot tempered leader of club (Una Merkel) who gives as much as the hot tempered Dietrich when she confronts her over demanding husband Mischa Auer'due south pants in exchange for his pants. Dietrich fights dorsum when Stewart dumps water on the two fighting felines, preferring other props over guns. Stewart'southward entrance off the stagecoach, complete with parasol and birdcage, isn't what yous'd expect of a law enforcement officer, but he has some surprises up his sleeve.
Dietrich has three musical numbers written by a young Frank Loesser. The well-nigh famous of course, is "See What the Boys in the Backroom Will Accept" (which she would perform in concerts for decades), although "You've Got That Look" is memorable equally well. This was later a successful Broadway musical with Andy Griffith, although Harold Rome wrote the music, not Loesser.
This has a bang-up supporting cast including Allen Jenkins as accused killer Gyp Watson, Jack Carson as an honest farmer who stands up to corrupt protection racketeers, Billy Gilbert equally the bartender, Lillian Yarbo equally Dietrich'south maid, and Irene Hervey as Carson'due south fiancée. Everything in this is picture perfect, and while "Blazing Saddles" was not an official remake, there'southward enough in mutual to compare the 2. This has i of the not bad endings in movies, and because the year information technology came out in (Hollywood's greatest year), that is quite a compliment.
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See What the Boys in the Dorsum Room Volition Have
This is a hybrid one-act western musical but to me it is rather dark equally people are cheated out of their land, shot dead but it has a few laughs and the butt of the joke is James Stewart.
He plays Tom Destry jr, the new deputy in Bottleneck, sent for by elderly family friend Dimsdale who has been appointed every bit sheriff every bit the final i was shot dead for asking as well many bad-mannered questions.
Dimsdale worked under Destry's begetter who was a famous and feared lawman. Clogging is overrun past the likes of Kent (Brian Donleavy) a wicked landowner with a roughshod mob who cheat people out of their country in a rigged game of cards. Kent is helped out here by Frenchy (Marlene Dietrich) the local saloon vocalist and good time girl. He also has the boondocks mayor on his side.
They initially find Destry to be a figure of fun, even a coward. He does non carry a gun for a start and seems to exist an easy going land hick. They shortly notice out that Destry is here to enforce law and order and willing to use guile and cunning before he reaches for a gun.
Stewart uses his easy amuse for full effect, Dietrich is great as Frenchy just she is really a bad daughter every bit she is in cahoots with Kent so you know she is never going to get information technology on properly with Destry despite the flirting. Her character and the flick really did inspire Blazing Saddles.
Still despite the levity it does lead to a fierce showdown. The film did introduce a seamy side to westerns with glamorous sexy females rather than spunky tom boys. Information technology just does not feel like a spoof to me or a comic western merely it is enjoyable without beingness po-faced.
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An effortlessly enjoyable film with a nice mix of the bawdry and the gentle
When the Sheriff of Bottleneck asks one too many questions near the legitimacy of Kent's card games, he winds upwardly dead and the new sheriff is the boondocks boozer. The corrupt forces behind Bottleneck remember that things will be just how they like it from now on but don't figure that the drunkard will call in assistance in the form of a deputy, Tom Destry – son of the famous constable. Yet Destry Jr turns out to not but be against conveying guns merely as well be soft-spoken and expert humour – not characteristics that Wash hoped for in his deputy. Notwithstanding with a civilization of silence, gun crime widespread and the town in the grip of the sultry and unsafe Frenchy, can Destry brand an bear on? Although I always notice information technology difficult to picket large sections of this pic without recalling the hilarious Blazing Saddles I practise relish the mix of comedy, drama and dark content in this motion-picture show and find it eminently enjoyable. From the very start, the tone is raucous and comic and the addition of Stewart only serves to make information technology seem even more than whimsical. And for the most part it is merely like this – wide fun with gentle laughs and expert-natured playing all round. This is fine and makes for a fun picture show but it is the extra stuff that makes it gain momentum towards the end and not just end upwardly like a big puff of nothing much; the drama is tense, the writing is dauntless and the action is pretty enjoyable. Information technology isn't amazing stuff though and it could be argued that the sudden rush of claret at the end doesn't sit that well with the relaxed footstep it had early on on but for me it phased from i aspect into the other pretty well and the conclusion actually made it feel weightier than the bulk had actually been.
The bandage make it work of grade, despite the risks taken. With events as they were at the time, Dietrich was considered a take chances but she pays off well and is a bang-up central graphic symbol providing laughs and some real free energy in her character and the musical numbers. Stewart has great chemistry with her, fifty-fifty if the script didn't make their relationship totally convincing. He plays his usual type of role but he does it very well and he mixes his gentle comic touch with Dietrich'due south bawdry style. The support cast are roundly great and people like Auer, Winninger, Donlevy and others all make sure that the film is not existence carried by the two leads merely is rather a group effort.
Overall a nifty one-act western that has more to it than you think. Unlikely to win over younger viewers weaned on constant action or big gross-out laughs but it is an effortless watch with gentle humour, great musical numbers, some tension, good action, great interim and a whole experience that has an enjoyable swagger to information technology while also winking to the audience for the most function.
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"Here'southward your badge, Don't let anybody see information technology".
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I caught the Audie Murphy "Destry" just about a week and a one-half ago, and the viewer comments on that moving picture prompted me to search out this earlier version. I'm glad to have watched them in opposite order, as otherwise I might have been more than critical in my review of the later movie. In most respects, "Destry Rides Again" outshines it'south remake - casting, dialog, humor, you lot proper name it. Of course information technology would be difficult for any duo to top the Jimmy Stewart/Marlene Dietrich combination, and in retrospect, I'm surprised that anyone would try.
This picture also seems to take a lot more than energy likewise. The town folk of Bottleneck seem to be a lot more involved than the citizens of Restful, and they have a larger function in the outcome of the story. It also appears that Jimmy Stewart'southward Destry is a might more interested in Frenchy (Dietrich) than Audie Murphy was in Mari Blanchard's Brandy. The other character match ups betwixt the two films are for the most part generally comparable, but the inclusion here of Mischa Auer as misplaced Russian cowboy Boris Stovragin is a definite plus. His comedic barrack with Destry was a hoot, and he just kept getting better every bit the film progressed.
One actor I was surprised to see here was a Warner Brothers regular, Allen Jenkins portraying 1 of Kent's henchmen, Gyp Watson. Well-nigh of the time you'll see him every bit some other Jimmy'due south sidekick, that being Cagney in a whole agglomeration of films from the same era. Another dandy surprise was seeing little Dickie Jones as the young Claggett boy. I simply took a expect through the uncredited cast list, and it'south about as large a who's who of veteran background character actors as you lot're likely to find in any Western of the catamenia.
For Jimmy Stewart, this was his starting time Western and he wouldn't become effectually to doing another for a decade or and so. On the face of it, having him in a Western doesn't seem to be such a good idea, because his every human being part in pictures like "You Can't Have Information technology With You" and "It'due south A Wonderful Life". But information technology's that same quality that makes Tom Destry such an constructive character every bit he faces downward his foes at the Last Chance Saloon. Western fans tin can have some fun with this 1, and it's ane you shouldn't miss.
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James Stewart'south First Western
Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Clogging has Sheriff Keogh killed when he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent a stranglehold over the local cattle rangers. The mayor, who is in cahoots with Kent appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale, as the new sheriff assuming that he'll be easy to control.
The picture was James Stewart'southward first western (he would not return to the genre until 1950, with "Broken Pointer" and "Winchester 73"), and was as well notable for a ferocious true cat-fight between Marlene Dietrich and Una Merkel, which plain acquired a mild censorship problem at the time of release. Stewart is strong hither, and while adept in whatsoever genre, he really seems at domicile in westerns.
According to writer/director Peter Bogdanovich, Marlene Dietrich told him during an shipping flight that she and James Stewart had an affair during shooting and that she became pregnant and had the baby surreptitiously aborted without telling Stewart. (This has nothing to do with the picture show itself, but what a juicy tidbit.) This is a corking picture show in general, even if it has not aged as well as it maybe could accept. I could not aid merely wonder while watching information technology if it was the inspirational for the "Andy Griffith Show" episode about the sheriff without a gun...
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Destry Rides Again
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From Laurel and Hardy managing director George Marshall (Pack Up Your Troubles, Towed in the Pigsty), this movie featured in the book 1001 Movies Y'all Must See Before Yous Dice, and information technology is the first to western to feature the male person flick star, so I was very keen to lookout. Basically in the town of Clogging, after losing what he knew was a rigged poker game, Sheriff Keogh (Joe King) is killed for asking as well many questions with the arrangement of boss Kent (Brian Donlevy). He and his girlfriend, dance hall queen Frenchy (Stage Fright'south Marlene Dietrich) seem to accept a stronghold over the local cattle ranchers, merely the mayor Judge Hiram J. Slade (Samuel S. Hinds), who has an agreement with Kent, has had enough of the high criminal offense charge per unit in the town. He appoints the town drunk Washington 'Wash' Dimsdale (Charles Winninger) as the new sheriff, to the sense of humor of everyone else and assuming he will exist easy to control. But the mayor and Kent don't know that a deputy is coming to boondocks, famous lawman Tom Destry'southward son, but formidable Tom Destry Jr. (James Stewart) arrives in town with an "aww, shucks" attitude, carrying no guns, and a calm and collective method for cleaning upwards the crime. Destry confounds the whole boondocks with his refusal to carry guns in spite of his skills with ane, and he doesn't ever jump in to the big situations, he doesn't fifty-fifty finish a cat fight between Frenchy and Lily Belle (Una Merkel). But slowly he puts makes his mark on the "letter of the constabulary" and earns many people's respect, even winning over the originally bad girl Frenchy to switch sides. Kent of class doesn't see much threat with Destry seeing him allow a family to be evicted from their house, this changes after the tragic death of Launder. A final big gunfight breaks out, and Destry grabs a gun to save the day, killing Kent the bad guy, but suffering the death of Frenchy in the crossfire, just the rule of law wins the twenty-four hour period. As well starring Mischa Auer as Boris, Allen Jenkins as Gyp Watson, Warren Hymer equally Bugs Watson, The Slap-up Dictator'due south Billy Gilbert as Loupgerou, Irene Hervey equally Janice Tyndall, Tom Fadden as Lem Claggett and Lillian Yarbo as Clara. Stewart as always is charming everyman with a little kick, Winniger is wonderful as the drunk keeping an center on his odd deputy, and Dietrich nigh steals the show with her fabled all knowing showgirl graphic symbol. The most memorable scenes are indeed the cat fight between Dietrich and Merkel and "Run into What the Boys in the Dorsum Room Volition Have", and it is a dissimilar arroyo to make this more funny than action filled, so definitely a comedy western to run into. James Stewart was number 12 on The 100 Greatest Picture show Stars, he was number iii on 100 Years, 100 Stars - Men, and he was number 13 on The World'southward Greatest Actor. Very skilful!
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Iconic Western.
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Information technology's full of dash, action, and comedy. James Stewart as Thomas Jefferson Destry is the new deputy Align in Bottleneck, sent for by his elderly friend Wash to help clean upwardly the town and get rid of dirty evildoers and murderers like Brian Donleavy and his gang. When Destry arrives on the stagecoach, the whole town waits tensely equally he climbs out. WHAT? Tom Destry, son of the gol-dangdest gunslingin' Align north of the Picketwire, steps delicately down from the passenger vehicle, carrying a parasol and a birdcage. (He'southward helping a lady with her baggage.) Waal, turns out Destry is an like shooting fish in a barrel-going kinda fella, fond of tellin' stories about friends of his, has a hobby of carvin' napkin rings. Don't tote no guns, neither.
Everybody has a practiced laugh at Destry'south expense -- and Destry good-naturedly joins in. But we know better. Nosotros know that James Stewart is light years abroad from the fairyhood the opening scenes propose. He's in Bottleneck not to shoot people but to enforce law and lodge and jail folks for infractions. And it isn't too long earlier he begins to demonstrate that he has the motor skills to exercise the job, and the cojones to boot. First he dumps a bucket of water over Frenchie (Marlene Dietrich), the saloon gal who is in the heart of a fight. Then he borrows some guns from Donleavy'southward gang and shoots the knobs off a distant roulette wheel. Whew! What a surprise! In the cease he does accomplish his goal, though it costs him the lives of a few friends. The lesson is left unspoken -- his no-guns, police enforcement arroyo didn't piece of work and violence was the answer.
Stewart is pretty adept, not that the role calls for much in the way of fireworks. He has an engaging style of dangling his fingers when he gestures. Not his paw -- his long thin fingers, a slight wave or tremor. Marlene Dietrich, whom I respect as a woman, has charms that consistently elude me on screen, except for "The Blue Angel," in which she is a ratty seductress. She doesn't seem to take much range as an actress and her features sometimes take on the sheen of an ice sculpture.
Only that'due south carping. This pic is an icon and must exist seen. In particular, everyone must see Dietrich singing, "Run across What the Boys in the Back Woom Will Have," and jiggling her vocal chords with thumb and forefinger as she parodies a vibrato.
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Picks Upwardly Steam And Has A Wild Finish
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The first part was a little boring to me but once you get past information technology, this is an entertaining film which was pop with a lot of people, including this reviewer, who really liked it better the second time effectually.
Marlene Dietrich plays a role typical for her, an edgy saloon singer named "Frenchy," and except for her singing, which I never idea was very good, she's bully to scout. James Stewart ("Thomas Jefferson Destry Jr.") also plays his normal part equally the peaceful hero every bit does the too loud-and-obnoxious Charles Winniger (Destry's uncle).
The ending is famous, a strange ane in which the boondocks'due south women storm the bad guys in a bar, culminating with Dietrich and Una Merkel fighting information technology out! Information technology'south very unrealistic only memorable and certainly fun to picket.
All-in-all, a pretty fast-moving movie which offers a petty chip of everything: action, romance, drama, comedy....and a lot of good, known supporting actors I didn't even mention. This is one of the classics of a very famous year in films.
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Western one-act with George Marshall's inspired direction
A peaceful and milksop cowboy named Johnnny performed by James Stewart cleans upward an uncontrollably lawless Western town called Bottleneck . The mild Johnny is appointed as deputy by the drunk but crusading sheriff well played by Charles Winninger . These were the adventures , fighting , laughing and brawling from Tombstone to Bottleneck . The pic starts with a label captioning ¨ Welcome to Bottleneck ¨ and a traveling leads to a Saloon chosen ¨ Concluding Trip the light fantastic toe ¨ where rules the powerful nasty played by Brian Donlevy . In that location James Stewart/Johnny meets Frenchie/Marlene Dietrich . Johnny makes Marlene change her make . A hard-boiled Dietrich with a deviation -rouged but rugged- who fights , yells, yodels her mode , sharp-nailed to love.
This is a classic Hollywood Western , information technology turns out to be a mixture of action , fights, shootouts and humor. Lovely acting of Marlene Dietrich every bit the impulsive Saloon daughter, she sings on the bar vintage songs every bit ¨ See what the boys in the back room volition have ¨ and ¨ Little Joe the wrangler ¨ by Frederick Hollander and Frank Loesser and musical score by Frank Skinner. Dietrich , in her postal service-Stemberg moment , was labeled equally Box-Office poisonous substance but this brawling Western turned her motion-picture show career all around the world and became her a hot extra again . James Stewart ideally cast as unarmed sheriff shows his usual delicious fair play for one-act , in a similar interpretation to ¨ Mr. Smith goes to Washington ¨ who recently starred. This spirited realization that never flags results to be a potpourri of Western , comedy , irony and activeness .
This is the second of four adaptations based on the novel by Max Brand , the starting time was titled by American exhibitors as ¨ Justice rides again (1932) ¨ with Tom Mix and the third version released in 1951 under championship ¨ Frenchie ¨ and fourth take on exhibited in 1954 too directed by George Marshall with Eddie Murphy and Marie Blanchard in like characters to James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich.
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Dietrich rides once more
James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Brian Donlevy, Charles Winninger, Jack Carson, and Mischa Auer star in "Destry Rides Again," from that magic year of 1939. Directed by George Marshall, a good managing director from the silent era, it'southward the story of a corrupt boondocks, Bottleneck, in the old westward. One of its leaders, Kent (Donlevy) has the sheriff killed when he questions a rigged poker game that is giving Kent ability over the local cattlemen. The mayor is in there with him. They engage the town drunk, Dimsdale (Winninger), as the new sheriff, knowing they can command him.
Dimsdale, however, was a deputy under Tom Destry, a bully shot and a great constable. Dimsdale contacts his son, Tom Jr. (Stewart) to become his deputy. Tom Jr. becomes a laughingstock when the town realizes that he doesn't carry a gun and doesn't believe in it.
This film is important for several reasons: It revived the stalled career of Marlene Dietrich, who does a great job equally Frenchy, the saloon girl who, despite being Kent'southward daughter, falls for Destry. In one of the starting time scenes, she gets into a hilarious fight with Lily Belle (Una Merkel), which was improvised by the actresses and washed in one take. Frenchy of form was the inspiration for the Madeline Kahn character in "Blazing Saddles." The other reason is, it'southward James Stewart'due south kickoff western, and he went on to do many. Third, it was fabricated into a Broadway musical starring Andy Griffith and had a good run on Broadway.
Dietrich sings "See What the Boys in the Dorsum Room Volition Have," "Yous've Got that Await," and "Little Joe, the Wrangler," and she'south fantastic.
Stewart, who took this role after Gary Cooper turned it down, is both sweet and sexy, with a gentle vocalization and manner that belies his lawman status.
Very good moving-picture show with a downbeat ending that is quite touching and really adds to the movie.
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An absolute must, even if you lot are non fractional to Westerns!
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Copyright eight December 1939 by Universal Pictures Co., Inc. New York opening at the Rivoli: 29 Nov 1939. U.S. release: 29 December 1939. Australian release: 25 Apr 1940. 10 reels. 8,453 feet. 94 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Kent, a suave gambler (Brian Donlevy) runs the lawless frontier town of Canteen Cervix, utilizing the services of his barroom entertainer, Frenchy (Marlene Dietrich), to cheat suckers like Lem Claggett (Tom Fadden) out of their ranches then that he can collect a tariff on all cattle driven through. When Sheriff Keogh (Joe King) learns that Claggett has been cheated at cards, he tries to enforce the constabulary but is shot, and in the commotion the Mayor of Canteen Cervix, Hiram J. Slade (Samuel Southward. Hinds), informs the patrons of the Last Chance Saloon that the sheriff has gone out of town. He and Kent appoint Wash Dimsdale (Charles Winninger), the town drunk, as the new sheriff. Wash, once deputy to the famous lawman Thomas Jefferson Destry, suddenly reforms and sends for his one-time pal's son Tom (James Stewart) to come up to Bottle Cervix as his deputy.
The balmy-mannered Mr Destry arrives past stagecoach with Janice Tyndall (Irene Hervey) and her headstrong brother Jack (Jack Carson), a cattleman. Wash introduces Tom to the townsfolk in the Final Chance Saloon, and when Kent tries to take Tom's guns away from him, they acquire that he doesn't comport whatever. Frenchy hands the new deputy a mop and pail to assist clean upward Bottle Neck. The boondocks thinks Destry is too mild a deputy to be a threat to Kent'due south gang, merely he nevertheless attempts to clean up Bottle Neck by looking for Sheriff Keogh's body.
NOTES: "Max Make" is the pseudonym of Frederick Faust. His novel was previously filmed in 1932 with Tom Mix as Destry contrary Claudia Dell'southward Frenchy. In 1954 Universal remade the film but as Destry with Audie White potato in the title role opposite Mari Blanchard. Many of the novel's plot devices turn upward in other westerns, for example The Boy from Oklahoma (1954), Frenchie (1950). Universal'southward peak boxoffice allure of 1939-xl.
Comment: In any other year but 1939, Destry Rides Again would have figured mightily on the nation'southward "Ten Best" lists. A smash with both critics and public, it marked a turning indicate in Dietrich's career, re-establishing her as a major star. As this difficult-as-nails bar belle, she is ideally cast. Her song, "See What the Boys in the Dorsum Room Volition Take", became a classic which is now synonymous with her name. In the title role, James Stewart is also absolutely perfect.
The definitive version of the novel, this one is not simply lavishly produced, just forcefully directed. Brisk film editing carries the viewer with beauteous celerity through necessary only dull continuity scenes in order to concentrate our attention on the much more than interesting cloth when Dietrich and Stewart strike sparks, and such fine grapheme actors equally Charles Winninger, Samuel Southward. Hinds, Allen Jenkins and Warren Hymer have their charismatic innings.
OTHER VIEWS: Destry Rides Again presents Marlene Dietrich as a Blue Angel of the Far W. Non only does she play Frenchy with panache and mode, but she emerges here as a fine comedian, registering just every bit strongly in the comic sequences as in the dramatic. In curt, she is marvellous. - Francois Timmory in L'Ecran Francais (translated by J. H. Reid).
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Welcome to Bottleneck.
Deputy Tom Destry Jr. (James Stewart) rides in to Clogging and sets virtually ridding the boondocks 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'south flagging career. At first glance it seemed an odd casting choice to choose Dietrich equally the bawdy saloon chanteuse, Frenchy, peculiarly since Paulette Goddard was originally cast for the role. But it actually comes off, where Dietrich's loud and brusque portrayal perfectly plays off of Jimmy Stewart'due south laid back and gentle mannered Destry performance.
The role of Destry is tailor fabricated for Stewart, his lowest charm sits perfect for a character who is at first painted equally a wimp, he drinks milk, he carries no guns, just who better than Stewart to fully realise a character that uses brains over brawn to smashing effect? A pic of this type, though, is simply equally expert as its villain, and thankfully Brian Donlevy steps up to the plate with a suitable grumpy sneer, it'southward a fine performance from a very undervalued performer.
Directed by the highly experienced George Marshall, Destry Rides Over again is chock full of the elements that brand a adept family film fifty-fifty amend than it should be, jokes a enough, goodies and baddies, songs, and quality slices of drama, all combine here to make this a very entertaining and rewarding picture indeed. While those into girl power really demand to check out the ending of this film for sure.
Little Joe, Little Joe... viii/10
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I loved this--and I hate westerns!
The lawless town of Clogging needs a new sheriff and deputy. They elect Wash (Charles Winninger) as the sheriff. He calls for Thomas Destry Jr. (James Stewart) to be his deputy. However Destry doesn't believe in using guns and wants to restore law and lodge without them. He has to fence with evil Kent (Brian Donlevy) and kleptomaniacal saloon girl Frenchy (Marlene Dietrich).
I hate westerns only I saw this for the actors and I heard it was a one-act western. There are some light moments but I would inappreciably telephone call this a comedic western like "Blazing Saddles" was. It's simply a fast-moving fairly light western with enough of action and sharp dialogue. The acting is slap-up--Stewart is perfectly cast as the calm and quiet deputy and Dietrich smolders as Frenchy. She also belts out some songs at full blast and they are definite highlights. There'south also an incredible cat fight between Dietrich and Una Merkel which goes on forever but is just fun to watch! The pic gets a little too serious at the finish (for me at least) simply it'southward still well worth watching. This is considered a classic and information technology's easy to see why. An eight all the mode.
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This is definitely one of those 'they don't make them similar that anymore' movies that has a lot to offer palettes jaded on also many Constabulary Academies, Halloweens, Matrixes, etc. All the technical and acting credits are spot on as are the standard 'western' plot ingredients; corrupt 'approximate' turning a blind center - in render for a piece of the action - to the machinations of aptitude saloon owner who really 'runs' the town, saloon vocaliser called (what else) Frenchie, affiliated with 'bad' guy but falling, natch, for 'good' guy (it'south ironic that Deitrich, who specialized in 'Frenchie' blazon roles, was really High german so that 'Krauty' would have been more appropriate yet that carries a negative connotation missing, however illogically, in 'Frenchie'), ineffectual sheriff and town drunk. By 1939 these standard components were wearing a niggling thin and the picture'due south strength is the parodic spin it applies to them without finishing them off (Charles Winninger's drunk-turned-sheriff, for case, was echoed by Dean Martin's drunk-turned-deputy in Rio Bravo well-nigh 30 years later). A lot of the pleasance is to be plant among the supporting cast - it's a given that Stewart and Dietrich deliver in their co-starring roles - the likes of Samuel S. Hinds (in existent life a Harvard-educated lawyer turned histrion) as the bent mayor-cum-estimate, Billy Gilbert equally the bartender, Micha Auer in his 'comic Russian' persona, Charles Winninger as the boondocks boozer and Brian Donlevy every bit the saloon owner. Throw in some fine Frank Loesser lyrics - Little Joe, See What The Boys In The Back Room Will Have - and what's not to similar.
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An effective western-comedy.
The pic has some really colorful characters, which actually makes the movie. Not only the two main characters, played by Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart simply more in particular the secondary characters. The characters feel fresh and original, despite being very stereotyped and they provide the movie with most of its fun.
Basically the picture is one cracking and effective western-comedy, without really ridiculing the western genre. In that location aren't really that many western-comedies around and of course "Blazing Saddles" is the but moving picture that beginning springs to mind. The movie is foremost a comedy, that but happens to be set in America during the 19th century. It likewise features all of the usual typical western genre elements, such as bar fight, menu games, lethal ladies and gunslingers.
Information technology's a real skillfully directed genre movie. Managing director George Marsall handled the one-act really well and there is a great balance betwixt the more than physical humor and the written comedy with its bully dialog.
The movie of course also gets made very lively due to its acting performances. James Stewart surely was one fine actor and he is great in his function in this moving picture. Marlene Dietrich plays a type of character she always played best.
It also on summit of that features a great written story that all times remain interesting, despite not having besides much action or anything similar that in it. Information technology's the type of story that only amuses without beingness really too (needlessly) complicated written. It keeps the movie simple but always effective. In it all there as well is of class room for some romance between the Dietrich and Stewart character simply it's (luckily) not the central chemical element of the movie though. There also is a minor amount of drama, so there basically is something for everybody to bask in this pic.
This movie in return is a remake of the 1932 movie with the same championship, starring genre veteran Tom Nix in the James Stewart role. This motion-picture show nevertheless remains more often than not unknown and also isn't widely available. One more remake of the movie got fabricated in 1954 under the simple title "Destry", which as well got directed by George Marshall, who is also the director of this motion picture version. In 1964 there also was a short lived TV serial, with the son of Tom Destry as its key grapheme.
A good movie to watch!
8/10
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Surprisingly awful
I was unprepared for how awful Destry Rides Once again would be. I'd been warned that although a archetype, it didn't stand the examination of time well. Just I didn't recollect it would stink then terribly. Every unmarried gag went on twice as long as it should take, from barfights to muttering asides to drunken explosions to airheaded stories. The pace was shockingly slow and not self-aware.
You'll run into a large cast in the movie, but they don't make information technology worthwhile. James Stewart plays a pre-The Human Who Shot Freedom Valance character: a deputy sheriff who refuses to apply a gun and comes across every bit wimpy. His delivery is quite irritating, though, every bit he uses one-half George Baily and half Elwood P. Dowd. I know he hadn't made either of those movies yet, but it spoils the magic a bit. Brian Donlevy is the crooked gambler in town who killed the last sheriff, but he's likewise handsome to really root against. Charles Winninger is the town drunk promoted to sheriff for the sole purpose of existence useless. He has a lot of screen time, only I wonder if he got tired of being cast equally drunken Irishmen. Mischa Auer is a bad gambler and wannabe cowboy who's meant to constantly brand the audience laugh, but his delivery is slow and the lines aren't good to begin with.
Marlene Dietrich is Brian's girlfriend and the head saloon girl, and although she looks sufficiently filthy and haggard to be a prostitute in the Wild Due west, she also looks like a joke. Her extremely curly wig is ridiculous, making her look like a blonde Raggedy Ann. Her acting is also appallingly awful, every bit if she'd never fabricated a movie earlier. In one scene, she mercilessly throws everything in sight at James Stewart. Instead of looking mad, she simply looks like she's searching for her next prop. In another, she's supposed to grab Jimmy'southward lapels and try to terminate him from leaving the room. Only in the line before he even starts to motility, she clutched his coat to make sure she'd accept a good grip when the time came. I'm surprised managing director George Marshall kept the take with such an apprentice action front end and centre in the camera'due south sight.
You'll also run into a young Jack Carson, Una Merkel, Samuel S. Hinds, and Allen Jenkins. I know you'll want to see it; information technology's a classic. Only now that I've detailed everything wrong with it, y'all don't have to. Rent another western tonight, for my sake.
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Destry Jr.
George Marshall directs this popular western one-act equally Jimmy Stewart plays Tom Destry Jr., son of a famous constable whose former deputy(now town drunk) is made Sheriff of the corrupt western town of Bottleneck, run past a ruthless man named Kent(played past Brian Donlevy)and aided by saloon singer Frenchy(played by Marlene Dietrich) who but murdered the virtually recent sheriff, who had been asking too many questions almost Kent's corrupt gambling firm. When Destry Jr. arrives, people are shocked at the mild-mannered man they see, who doesn't like to employ guns, merely instead his wit! They and then dismiss him as a threat, simply that turns out to be a mistake...
OK western spoof(of sorts) is amusing but hardly a comedic jewel, and non very credible either, with an all-too predictable romance between Frenchy and Destry. Still, it'south affable enough, and Stewart is quite skillful.
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Marlene Dietrich own't to every gustation
Every movie that Marlene Dietrich done quite often she not portrait the grapheme very well, she plays herself in most all movies, in this case happened the aforementioned, she played a vocaliser who knew all nigh what'south going on table of cards, and so suddenly appears the handsome likes James Stewart and she turns back to your old pals, bluntly is hard to believe, this why Dietrich wasn't takes so seriously in cinema, autonomously Rancho Notorious and Blue Angel which she was slap-up, then in my opinion Dietrich was overrated in your career, she also was also arrogant and unfriendly more often than not of actors and extra didn't like to piece of work with her, l know why!!
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George Marshall's DESTRY RIDE Again starts as a revisionist western but ends as a curate's egg
"Every bit per usual, audience can always bank on Stewart'south aw-shucks geniality and Dietrich's believing allure for some quality time, and among the second fiddlers, Mischa Auer is a gas every bit the henpecked husband of Ms. Callahan, infatuated with Frenchie, but besides miffed for being only a substitute of his wife'due south deceased first married man, he is vindicated at concluding, but what about Frenchie? It seems that a adult female of her profession, temperament and appeal can never merit a sanguine ending. Elsewhere, the deployment of a collective, implacable momentum of womenfolk is novel for its time, but is likewise rashly executed to terminate off the story, which has regressed to the genre'south traditional (retribution and quick on the draw moment), soppy (someone is worth dying for), depression-hire (chaotic mob action) fanfare without much contrition or hesitation, still, it is a curate'south egg."
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Wellcome to Bottleneck
Marlene Dietrich (perversely named 'Frenchy', since she was at the time Hollwood's nigh famous fraulein) and Jimmy Stewart - who'd finally acquired grace in front of the camera - make a surprisingly successful squad in this alive-activity Tex Avery cartoon which also supplies activeness and pathos.
The supporting bandage is magnificent, although Una Merkel in her most famous screen role is cast against type as a bluestocking and gets little chance to display her usual sass.
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Boom-boom town
However another classic from Hollywood's most gilt year, 1939, a highly entertaining light- hearted Western which sees James Stewart's Tom Destry Jr, son of a renowned but slain lawman, recruited by his pa's old deputy, the at present alcoholic Wash (played in the style of Oliver Hardy) by Charles Winninger to make clean upwardly the god-forsaken town of Bottleneck way out west, coming upward against the shifty mayor-come up-judge, played by and the town's Mr Big, Joseph Kent played with his usual vigour by Brian Dunlevy. Kent's sometime girlfriend and willing accomplice in his nefarious plans, is bar-room entertainer tart-with-a-heart Frenchy (well they could inappreciably have called her German-y) by the irrepressible Marlene Dietrich, her eyes (and thighs!) flashing everywhere.
It actually takes Stewart over twenty minutes to make it on screen, every bit we're introduced to top-billed Deitrich's feisty nature and encounter her drinking what the boys in the back are having, sing raucous songs and help Dunlevy to cheat ordinary townsfolk out of their domicile and state and so that he can create a new, highly profitable cattle run to exploit. Young Destry seems on the slow and elementary side at get-go, assuasive himself to be the butt of Dunlevy and his henchmen but every bit usual with Stewart, softly softly tricky monkey and wrongs are righted by the last mantle.
Both stars are peachy, Deitrich's journey from hard-nosed to vulnerable essayed very skilfully while Stewart just drawls and moseys along in his time-honoured. They contrast and combine beautifully while Brian Dunlevy is besides very good every bit the counterbalancing ruthless criminal kingpin who'south due his just desserts.
Director George Marshall directs with verve and although one or ii of the supporting characters seem a little also eccentric, especially Russian émigré "Don't call me Callahan", it'south all great fun with many memorable scenes, including Deitrich'southward musical numbers, Stewart's start display of his gun-toting skill and of grade the celebrated, no-holds barred cat-fight betwixt Deitrich and Una Merkel.
This is a great rollicking, roistering Western similar they don't make 'em any more, more's the pity.
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Stewart and Dietrich in an splendid western
Some see this as a spoof of Westerns, merely I didn't see information technology that style at all. You take all of the classic elements hither - a lawless boondocks led by a slap-up (Brian Donlevy), a new lawman (Jimmy Stewart), and a saloon vocaliser with an edge (Marlene Dietrich). One of the differences to a standard Western, if at that place is such a thing, is in Stewart'south approach to enforcing the law. Having seen what guns will practice even to those who are tough and quick on the draw, like his father who was gunned downward in the back, Stewart doesn't even carry them. When provoked or mocked, he tries to defuse the situation with gentleness and humor. He has his limits, and is not completely irenic though. He shows merely enough shooting ability to proceed people wary, and nosotros encounter that in that location is a toughness and bravery in his calmness, and the fact that he doesn't escalate conflicts. What a fantastic hero he makes in this pic. Stewart was really hitting his stride in 1939, and delivers another strong functioning here.
Marlene Dietrich is also brilliant. She's tough, standing upwardly to the rowdy patrons of the saloon, throwing a barrage of items at Stewart on one occasion, and on another, getting into a terrific brawl with a lady in the boondocks (Una Merkel), which only breaks up when Stewart douses the pair with a bucket of water. She likewise performs a couple of songs, "See What the Boys in the Dorsum Room Will Accept" and "You've Got That Look", and there is something special most the way she sings the lines "I should exist dauntless and say, 'Allow'southward have no more than of it!', but oh what'southward the utilize when you know, I honey it!," in the latter, slowly purring out that last scrap. Dietrich may not seem like she would exist well cast for a Western only she fits in very well, with such feistiness and playfulness in her eyes, and great chemistry with Stewart. How unfortunate that censors had one piddling bit removed from her operation, which was subsequently she wins some money gambling, tucks it into the front end of her wearing apparel, and patently quips "There'southward gilt in them thar hills." I can just motion picture it though.
Another way in which the picture is unlike from a standard Western is in its comedic elements. Stewart is really simply a deputy, appointed by the new sheriff (Charles Winninger), who himself was only appointed past the corrupt mayor (Samuel S. Hinds) because he'due south the town boozer, and considered hapless. In a scrap of a surprise, he immediately takes his job seriously, lays off the canteen, and contacts Stewart. Thereafter, though, he'southward largely a comic foil to Stewart, and the pairing is a good ane. I was less of a fan of a Russian character (Mischa Auer), who among other things loses his pants at cards to Dietrich and goes effectually trying to steal other men'southward pants. He just seemed too silly and distracting to me, just he does assistance continue the tone of the film a shade lighter than information technology otherwise would have been.
The message of the film, peculiarly at a fourth dimension when the world was near the outbreak of WWII, is pretty remarkable. It blends trying to avert conflict if at all possible with non beingness completely naïve, elements we obviously see in Stewart'due south character, and still further, with the demand for common people to ultimately stand up for themselves against evil, as we meet in the town'south women characters towards the finish. Stewart, Dietrich, and this message - it'south really hard to get incorrect hither.
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