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Thursday, March 21, 2019
















     The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
1959  NR  COMEDY  1h 43min
CAST— Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Henry Hull, William Campbell, Bruce Cabot, Robert Morley
MUSIC— Robert Farnon  DIRECTOR— Raoul Walsh  BASED ON— The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (story), by Jacob Hay

     A Western-comedy lacking adventure and/or antics, this one is pretty much a dud from the start. A ne’er-do-well heir to London’s finest firearms manufacturer decides that the best place to sell guns would be America’s Wild West. Off he heads to peddle his wares but he never manages to sell a single firearm. He does, however, make peace between the whites and the Indians, become sheriff of a rowdy town in the middle of a range war and manage to snare the girl of his dreams… all without a clue as to what’s going on. It sounds better than it is. Cheerio. AKA The Blonde and the Sheriff.
OUR RATING— * ½

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