Destry Rides Again Page #2

Synopsis: Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck 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. But what the mayor doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy under famous lawman, Tom Destry, and is able to call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry Jr to be his deputy. Featuring a career reviving performance from Marlene Dietrich as bar singer Frenchie, which could well have been the inspiration for Madeline Kahn's "Blazing Saddles" character, Lili Von Schtupp.
Genre: Comedy, Western
Director(s): George Marshall
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
APPROVED
Year:
1939
94 min
405 Views


I know. I know.

Some other time.

[Everyone Laughing]

Aw, laugh!

Laugh, you coyotes!

Lookin' for somebody,

Sheriff?

Yes, I aim

to find out from Kent...

why he's turnin'

that poker game into

a land-grab business.

Oh.

Now you'll do a lot better

for yourself if you come

over and buy me a drink.

I know what's good for me.

I'm sure ya do.

Frenchy,

they don't believe me.

They don't know what

a big man I was.

I was Tom Destry's deputy,

wasn't I?

Sure, sure, sure.

There, you see?

Go and buy yourself

something to drink.

[Chuckling] Oh!

How'd everything go up there?

I still serve the best

coffee in Bottleneck.

What'd Keogh have

on his mind?

Oh, he was just getting

a little curious about

that real estate business.

I think I'll have

to buy myself an option

on his curiosity.

[Gunshots]

I think you'll

have to buy yourself

a whole new sheriff.

If you can find one.

What are ya doing?

I didn't do it.

I didn't do it.

What's the matter with you?

Oh, Miss Frenchy, I was

just tryin' to shut out...

the boomin' and the bangin'

of them there pop guns.

What do you expect

in a town like this?

I expect I's gonna remain...

a mass

of quiverin' flesh.

[Thudding]

What's comin' up,

a new gold rush?

We never got anything

like that in New Orleans.

Maybe so, maybe so,

but it was a heap

more peaceful.

I'd like to sink my

chattering teeth in some

good ol' Louisiana oysters.

Here, sink your teeth Into this.

Maybe that will stop the chattering.

Oh, it will help.

Thanks.

[Knock At Door]

- Come in.

- They're waitin'

for ya, Frenchy.

The longer they wait,

the better they like it.

[Applause, Cheering]

All I do

is dine with 'em

And split a pint

of wine with 'em

Respectable as can be

Yet here's what

they say to me

You've got that look

That look that

leaves me weak

You with your eyes

across the table technique

You've got that look

That look between the lines

You with your let's get

more than friendly designs

I should be brave and say

Let's have no more of it

But oh, what's the use

when you know

I love it

You'll only kill my will

Before I speak

So turn on

that low left hook

That look that

leaves me weak

You've got that look

That look that

leaves me weak

You with your eyes

across the table technique

You've got that look

That look

between the lines

You with your let's get

more than friendly designs

I should be brave and say

Let's have no more of it

But oh, what's the use

when you know

I love it

Whoopee!

You'll only kill my will

before I speak

So turn on that low left hook

That look that leaves me weak

[Cheering, Gunshots]

[Cheering Continues]

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Felix Jackson

Felix Jackson (June 5, 1902 – December 7, 1992) was a German-born American screenwriter and film producer. He was born in Hamburg as Felix Joachimson. Jackson was a city editor in Germany at 21, then a dramatic and music critic, and helped manage three theaters in Berlin. He joined Joe Pasternak as a producer in Budapest in 1933. He began working in the German film industry, before relocating after the rise of the Nazi party. He moved to Austria and Hungary in the mid-1930s where he frequently collaborated with the director Henry Koster. His screenplay for the 1935 film Little Mother served as the basis for a Hollywood remake Bachelor Mother (1939) which was nominated for an Academy Award. Jackson moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s, writing the screenplay for Destry Rides Again (1939) a western starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. Naturalised U.S. citizen december 13, 1940, he was active in the European Film Fund, which provided support to European emigre filmmakers. He produced several Deanna Durbin films for Universal Pictures and they married in 1945. He joined the advertising agency Young and Rubicam in 1946, heading up its dramatic-television department. He served as executive producer of Pulitzer Prize Playhouse which aired on the ABC television network.In his fifties, Felix Jackson published a few novels. more…

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