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Bookmark this pageThe Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)
Director: Raoul Walsh
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From Time Out Film Guide
An oddball comic Western, shot by Walsh on Spanish locations (and British studio interiors), with Kenneth More as the unsuccessful English inventor, turned gun salesman in the American West, who is mistaken for a gunman and eventually tames the town with the aid of some amiable Indians. Chiefly memorable for the strange vision of buxom Jayne Mansfield and wimpish sheriff More grappling with the incompatibility of their bodies, providing an occasional hoot and many an exercise in single entendre. DMacp.Author: DMacp
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- John said...
- Posted on Jan 23 2008 18:43 Neither for the serious student of 19th century western nor for the follower of hard faced westerns. Good fun in its time. Pleasantly lighthearted.
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Cast & crew
Director: Raoul Walsh
Producer: Daniel M Angel
Cast: Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Bruce Cabot, Henry Hull, William Campbell, Robert Morley, Ronald Squire full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 110 mins
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