any more?


i enjoyed this thoroughly.

can anyone recommend any more screwball/comedy westerns that are worth watching?

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I love those comedy westerns too. All the best ones seemed to come out between the mid 60s release of "Cat Ballou" which pioneered the subgenre, and the early 70s. The Rat Pack did a couple of earlier comedy westerns too. I guess the last major comedy western was "Blazing Saddles" which went completely over the top into surreal satire and insanity. While I don't really care for either of those two bookends of the comedy western, I like most of the ones that came in between. Here's a few that come to mind.

Sergeants 3 - Actually came out before Cat Ballou. A retelling of Gunga Din with Sinatra, Martin, and the rest of the rat pack.

Four for Texas - More rat pack wild west fun

Texas Across the River - Dean Martin and Alain Delon help the early pioneers of Texas fight off the Comanches

The Hallelujah Trail - An epic comedy cavalry, Indians and Temperance Union western with Burt Lancaster and Lee Remick. A must see if you like these movies.

Waterhole #3 - James Coburn plays a drifter going after a lost treasure in this comedy take on The Good the Bad and the Ugly.

Something Big with Dean Martin is another one with Dean and his outlaw gang stealing a Gatling gun and a cavalry officer's wife to score a final victory before he goes back east to get married.

James Garner did two good ones: Support Your Local Sheriff and the sequel Support Your Local Gunfighter which were also fun, but I haven't seen them since they were on network TV when I was a little kid.

A very late entry which has some comedic elements, but focuses a bit more on serious matters is 1980's The Mountain Men with Charlton Heston and Brian Keith fighting Blackfeet Indians in the Rocky Mountains of the 1830s.



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This reply is long after the original but it still requires an answer. In my opinion "The Villain" with Kirk Douglas as the Villain is a side splitting western comedy. It is considered a take off on The Road Runner cartoons actually. Never mind that it has Arnie in it, just overlook him and concentrate on Kirk Douglas, Paul Lynde and the horse "Whiskey". There are more funny moments in the movie than any other 2 or 3 western comedies combined. Just my opinion so to anybody that don't agree that is fine.

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any flick that has paul lynde and ruth buzzi cant be TOO bad!

villain is indeed wacky.

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