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Synopsis: Marshal Flagg, an aging lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKaye, is back in the area and planning a robbery. Riding out to hunt down McKaye, Flagg is captured by McKaye's gang and finds out that McKaye is no longer the leader of the gang, but is considered just an aging relic by the new leader, a youngster named Waco. Waco orders Mackaye to shoot Flagg, and when Mackaye refuses Waco abandons both of them. Flagg then takes Mackaye back to town only to find out that he has been "retired", and when he sees how clueless and incompetent the new marshal and the city fathers are, he persuades Mackaye that it is up to the two of them to stop Waco and his gang from ravaging the town.
Genre: Comedy, Western
Director(s): Burt Kennedy
Production: Warner Bros.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
20%
M
Year:
1969
91 min
263 Views


Howard, I'd like...

Howard.

I want you to walk me to the office.

I have something

I want to discuss with you.

James Flagg.

You are late for supper!

You know what time we sit down.

I mean, I don't run a restaurant here.

I haven't got time to eat anyway, Mary.

- Hi, Jim.

- Hello, Billy.

Marshal Flagg, Billy, you know that.

Boy, you should've seen

all the ruckus in town today.

A whole bunch of ladies

were piled aboard the train

and the mayor was there and everything.

- Yeah, I saw it.

- Where are they going?

- Who?

- The ladies.

- Another town, I guess.

- Why?

Billy!

- Ma!

- And don't call me "Ma."

Did they wanna go?

I don't suppose

it occurred to anybody to ask them, Billy.

They weren't bad, were they?

I mean, if they'd been bad, you'd have

run them out of town, wouldn't you?

Yeah, Billy.

If they'd been bad, I'd have run them out.

Then if they weren't bad

and they didn't wanna go,

how come they went?

Well...

Billy, someday you'll learn

that people don't always agree

on what's good and what's bad.

Now, about those ladies,

they were just practicing

the oldest profession on earth.

I thought being marshal

was the oldest profession.

- No, that's just second oldest.

- Well, then what's first?

You got yourself into this,

you get yourself out.

Well, Billy, you see, the...

The Lord made men and he made women.

And he...

Well, he didn't make them quite the same.

Gee, I know that.

- But why'd...

- Billy, that's enough questions.

Now, why don't you just run along?

Grownups don't tell kids nothing.

- Ma! Howard Boyle's here.

- Billy.

Come on in, Howard.

- Evening, Mary.

- Evening.

- Marshal.

- Howard.

The mayor wants to talk to you, Jim.

- Already?

- Yeah.

He decided to cooperate, huh?

I think you ought to come down

and see him yourself.

- You tell His Honor I'm on my way.

- Okay.

And, Howard, start rounding up a posse.

- I'd like to be on the flats by sunup.

- Right.

What's this about a posse?

Nothing to worry about, Mary.

Not now, anyway.

Jim.

- Be careful, will you?

- I'll be back.

Maybe then I'll take you to dinner.

Jim! Jim Boy, come on!

Come on!

Come on, Jim, this is for you.

Come on, this is it for you, Jim Boy.

Folks, this is a great day for our town.

Today we're gonna

pay our respects to a man

who has devoted 20 years of his life

to make this a safe

and decent place to live in.

You know, when Marshal James Flagg

came to our fair city,

it was untamed, lawless, frontier town.

But with honesty,

resolution and dedication,

regardless of personal danger,

James Flagg has tamed this town

and made it the prospering community

we all enjoy today!

And so it's come time for us

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Ronald M. Cohen

Ronald M. Cohen (December 23, 1939, Chicago, Illinois – April 21, 1998, Los Angeles, California) was a US American screen writer and film producer. His screenwriting career started in the 1960s and he studied Film at New York University. His screenwriting career encompassed Blue (1968 film), the 1977 film Twilight's Last Gleaming and the 1984 TV series Call to Glory. In 1977 he wrote a script for the movie adaption of Lothar-Günther Buchheims novel Das Boot, but it was rejected by Buchheim. For his screenwriting for the Series American Dream he was nominated for an Emmy in 1981. His last finished work was the screenwriting for the successful 1997 TV film Last Stand at Saber River starring Tom Selleck. He was in a relationship with actress Julie Adams. more…

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