Rustlers' Rhapsody Page #6

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
438 Views


Oh, don't wory about it.

You're just getting paranoid.

Someone's coming.

- l don't hear anything.

- Trust me, someone's coming.

Hide in those trees down there

just for a little while.

- Why?

- Well, how does it look?

Here you are, a nice girl without

any clothes on, and l'm a good guy.

l'd appreciate it.

All right.

- In the trees?

- Yeah. Just for a couple of minutes.

- What's your name, by the way?

- Rex.

Oh, my gosh.

- What?

- My dog's name is Rex.

Hello, Rex.

Hi.

Remember me?

Yeah, you're Miss Tracy, the town...

Hostess.

Yeah. Right.

Howdy, ma'am.

Howdy.

Most men l know

only have one gun.

Huh?

Oh, sory about that.

l'm kind of busy here.

l have to feed the fire

and keep the horses maintained.

Come on, Rex, can't you

even offer a girl a drink?

OK. One quick drink.

Why not?

l have a bottle of shery

that my mother sent me.

Hasn't been opened since Christmas.

l don't usually drink myself,

you understand.

OK, one little shery...

Well?

Oh, Miss Tracy,

you got the wrong guy, really.

l'm ready, Rex.

Ready for what?

A nice, long conversation.

Oh, no, no, no, you don't understand.

l can't talk like that.

So sing it.

l'd love to, but l...

What is it?

Someone's coming.

- Someone's coming?

- Yeah, out there.

- You'd better hide behind that boulder.

- Why?

Why? You're in your undemear,

and l'm... You know.

- l'm a straight shooter.

- Good.

Oh, please get behind that boulder.

It won't be long.

As a special favor to me.

OK.

But you owe me.

Thank you so much.

l told you to hide.

- l heard a woman's voice.

- What? No, you didn't. That was...

That's iust some old

hoot owl hooting.

Whose cape is this?

Mine. This is iust part of my stuff.

lt's cold out here, don't you think?

- Rex, are you OK?

- l'm fine, fine, just fine.

Go hide in the trees.

l'll call you when it's safe.

OK.

Oh, what a night!

Hi. Remember me?

- Sure, you're the town drunk.

- Yeah.

- How do you like my new outfit?

- It's nice, vey nice.

- So is yours.

- Thank you.

- Mine's a sidekick outfit.

- l know.

And you don't have a sidekick,

am l right?

That's right.

Well...

What about me?

Now, look...

- Peter.

- Look, Peter,

l don't have a sidekick.

l ride alone. That's my style.

You could use a sidekick,

couldn't you?

No, sory, but even my theme song

says l ride alone.

l ride alone

Change it.

- It took me four years to get that right.

- It did?

There's no sidekick opening.

So if you'll excuse me, l have to...

Mr. O'Herlihan, now, look,

l could provide comedy relief.

What's gonna happen to me

in Oaood Estates?

l'm iust the town drunk.

l want more than that.

l wanna see the world.

- l wanna see other towns at least.

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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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