Rustlers' Rhapsody Page #2

Synopsis: While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Rex O'Herlihan, The Singing Cowboy, finds himself in color and enters a cliché-ridden town, in which the evil cattle baron (Andy Griffith) and the new Italian cowboys (who always wear raincoats no matter how hot it gets) join forces to get him and the sheep ranchers to leave the valley.
Genre: Comedy, Western
Director(s): Hugh Wilson
Production: Paramount Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
18%
PG
Year:
1985
88 min
427 Views


than any Western town.

They're all identical.

They are?

- Really?

- Yeah, really.

ln evey town there's a bar

like the one we came from.

They might not all have

continuous entertainment,

but they're basically the same.

Sheriffs stereotypical, and so is the

saloon owner with that mustache...

Oh, no, no. Those guys are unique.

l'm sory, but l iust

don't believe you.

OK, you have a vey pretty, but

somehow asexual, new schoolmarm?

Yeah.

ls the blacksmith a friendly guy

who only gets mad

when somebody

burns down his barn?

Yeah.

ls the editor of the paper an idealist

who hocked eveything for his press?

Damn.

See.

Hey, hey, l know one thing that's...

l know one thing

different about Oaood Estates.

- None of these other towns have...

- Railroad coming through.

Holy cow!

All Western towns have

the railroad coming through?

Yep.

Wait! Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

One last thing. Do all these

towns have a town drunk?

l'm not sure.

Oh, come on.

You know.

No, you're the first l ever met.

Oh, well, that's something

at least, isn't it?

Sure is, partner.

You're one of a kind.

You ought to...

You ought to travel more.

Get out, see the world.

You know,

the most amazing thing

is that all these other towns

are as violent as this one.

Yep.

Hard to believe.

Yep. dis, buckaroo.

On, Wildfire, on!

for some reason, the bad guy

was always a colonel

who had a beautiful,

young daughter

and about 1,OOO head ofcattle

which you'd hear but never see.

Let me iust ask you one question.

There's one thing

l'm most curious about.

Why bring the body here?

My God, this is a home.

People live here!

Well, colonel, we didn't

know what to do with him.

Buy him. How about that?

Don't you think that's a good idea?

Oh, yeah. Yes, sir, colonel.

Do you think,

when somebody dies,

they place them permanently

on the family couch?

- No, sir.

- Gee whiz!

Well, l'm sory.

l'm a little upset, that's all.

And the couch is new,

and Blackie was my best man.

Poor Blackie.

Always acting so mean.

Always shooting people.

Well, l saw something

a little deeper than that.

l saw a man who could feel.

Who could touch.

l think we should go.

You say this stranger

shot Blackie in the back?

Yes. He got eveybody in the bar to say

that we done it. Can you believe that?

Then he's a coward and a liar!

You better take care of him.

How do you mean?

Shoot him!

End his life, that's what l mean

when l say take care of somebody.

l want you to cut him open,

reach in with your bare hands...

Hi, Daddy, am l interrupting?

No.

l was iust telling the boys

here how to buy Blackie.

Daddy, can l have Wildfire

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Hugh Wilson

Hugh Hamilton Wilson (born August 21, 1943) is an American movie director, writer and TV showrunner. He is best known as the creator of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati and Frank's Place, and as the director of the popular movie comedies Police Academy and The First Wives Club. more…

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