Rustlers' Rhapsody Page #5

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
435 Views


- What do you think it is?

l can't be sure.

l don't want to start a panic,

but l think...

l think it's some kind of bacteria

that splits the skin.

Fortunately, so far,

it's just confined to males,

but who can tell?

l'm not prepared to fight

this kind of thing.

l don't have the tools

or the know-how.

l don't have the drugs!

- Will you excuse me, doc?

- Sure.

Just talk?

- That's it?

- That's it.

- For $600?

- Yeah.

These are the 1880s,

$600 is a fortune.

Los Angeles real estate is going

for 50 cents an acre. An acre!

- l can get a steak for a dime.

- That's wondeul.

- Hi, Miss Tracy.

- Hi.

Would you excuse me?

OK.

- You wanted to see me, Miss Tracy?

- Yes.

You know that stranger

in here yesterday?

The one whose trousers

virtually suck to his legs.

Yes, ma'am.

Where's he hanging out?

You know what l mean, hanging out?

Yeah, yeah, he has a campsite

just outside of town.

What's his name?

You know, his handle.

Rex O'Herlihan,

The Singing Cowboy.

- The what?

- The Singing Cowboy.

Well, l want him.

l want to...

Tell the mule what happened.

Go on, tell him.

lt was something.

Really something.

Those guys even had

scope rifles too.

Yeah, it was incredible.

l knew the whole plan,

but who cares about that?

The thing of it was... The thing

was jumping on top of Wildfire

and those guys hitting the brakes.

Help.

On, Wildfire, on!

Help!

Whoa, whoa.

Where am l?

ln a small village,

just north of Oslo, Nomay.

Really?

No.

Actually, you're a few miles

outside of Oaood Estates.

Oh, you were teasing me,

weren't you?

Yep.

Oh, l like that.

Evey time Rex got close to having

some sort of relationship with a girl,

Evey time Rex got close to having

some sort of relationship with a girl,

you could bet something else

would happen.

- Thanks for washing my dress.

- Oh, my pleasure.

l never have problems

with ground-in dirt stains.

Blood and chocolate

are the tough ones.

Do you live around here?

Oh, you work around here, then.

You're on vacation.

No, not really.

- l wanna thank you...

- You know...

- You go.

- No, you.

- No, you.

- Well, what l was gonna say was

it certainly is some horse of yours.

Yes! Oh, he's been dragging me

around since last night.

He's an Arabian.

They have great stamina.

Yeah, l know.

His name is Wildfire.

- What?

- His name is Wildfire.

- Are you kidding me?

- No, l don't think so.

My horse's name is Wildfire!

- No!

- Yes.

- That's amazing.

- That's an incredible coincidence.

Don't you iust love

the name Wildfire?

Yeah, it's the greatest, the best.

Have you got more of that plant?

Oh, yeah, sure,

there's some in the...

What?

What is it?

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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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