Support Your Local Sheriff / Support Your Local Gunfighter Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		3.5
Audio		4.0
Extras		2.0
Overall		3.5

Support Your Local Sheriff / Support Your Local Gunfighter Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman March 2, 2016

Mention the name Rango to most folks, and they will of course immediately think of the wacky animated tale that link leads to, a film which featured the voice of Johnny Depp as an ambitious little chameleon who ends up as a sheriff in a decidedly whimsical version of the Wild West. It’s probably not mere coincidence that there was “another” Rango featuring an unprepared soul becoming a fairly inept law keeper, in this case a newish Texas Ranger portrayed by typically hilariously fumbling Tim Conway, in a short-lived sitcom series that aired as a midseason replacement for a few months in 1967 after Conway’s long running stint on McHale’s Navy had come to a close. Though Conway’s Rango evidently ultimately made TV Guide’s list of the worst ever sitcoms, it was actually relatively popular during its short run and there was some surprise when the show wasn’t picked up for full second season. Two years after Conway’s Rango had its brief traipse across the broadcast television landscape, Support Your Local Sheriff! appeared, offering a more competent interloper taking over the reins of local law enforcement (not that being more competent than Rango would offer much of a challenge) in a rather whimsical formulation of the Wild West that was both reminiscent of the Conway Rango and prescient about the then far in the future Depp Rango. Support Your Local Sheriff! was such a hit that two years after it was released, director Burt Kennedy reassembled several actors from the first film and delivered Support Your Local Gunfighter, a film which once again posited an unlikely interloper to an old west backwater who in this instance attempts to play a massive con on the local populace which in some ways harkens back to star James Garner’s iconic television series Maverick. Gunfighter also tips its Stetson to the then sensational “Spaghetti Western” genre, though the results are probably not as consistently humorous as the first film. Twilight Time has now brought both of these films together in a generally highly enjoyable double feature.

Reviews of each of the films included in this double feature can be found by clicking on the following links:

Support Your Local Sheriff Blu-ray review

Support Your Local Gunfighter Blu-ray review

Support Your Local Sheriff / Support Your Local Gunfighter Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality of each film is assessed in the reviews linked above.

Support Your Local Sheriff / Support Your Local Gunfighter Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality of each film is assessed in the reviews linked above.

Support Your Local Sheriff / Support Your Local Gunfighter Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Supplementary material for each film is detailed in the reviews linked above.

Support Your Local Sheriff / Support Your Local Gunfighter Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Support Your Local Sheriff is probably the more consistently funny of these two films, and it also offers perhaps slightly better video quality. Support Your Local Gunfighter struggles at times to deliver the same level of laughs as the first film, but is still very enjoyable on its own slighter merits. This double feature comes Recommended.