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Destry Rides Again
Destry Rides Again is a 1939 American Western comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart. The supporting cast includes Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy, Allen Jenkins, Irene Hervey, Billy Gilbert, Bill Cody Jr., Lillian Yarbo, and Una Merkel.
Plot
Saloon owner Kent, the unscrupulous boss of the fictional Western town of Bottleneck, has the town's sheriff, Mr. Keogh, killed when Keogh asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game. Kent and Frenchy, a cheap saloon tramp who is his girlfriend, now have a stranglehold over the local cattle ranchers. The town's crooked mayor, Hiram J. Slade, who is in collusion with Kent, appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale, as the new sheriff, assuming that he will be easy to control and manipulate. However, Dimsdale, a deputy under the famous lawman Tom Destry, promptly swears off drinking, and is able to call upon the latter's equally formidable son, Tom Destry Jr., to help him make Bottleneck a lawful, respectable town.
More details
| author | Gertrude Purcell Henry Myers |
|---|---|
| director | George Marshall |
| editor | Milton Carruth |
| events | gambling |
| genre | comedy western |
| keywords | break cattle rancher drink gang member joke kill laugh murder new sheriff poker game provoke saloon owner shoot town drunk wash western town wild west wound |
| musicBy | Frank Skinner |
| producer | Joe Pasternak |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| theme | western |