Support Your Local Sheriff!
United Artists | Release Date: March 26, 1969 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
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4
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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60
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Amiable comedy western, with James Garner expanding on his Maverick image as a boom-town sheriff who’d rather use his cunning than his guns. Read full review
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VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Support Your Local Sheriff uses as the basis for its comedy the many cliches that have become part and parcel of the Western genre. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Support Your Local Sheriff is a textbook example of the evil influence TV has on the movies. It's essentially a lousy TV situation comedy dragged out to feature length for no good reason. Read full review
50
The New York TimesVincent Canby
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF, a Western period farce about a town-taming supersheriff, is something designed for sensibilities shaped by "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres." Read full review
40
Village VoiceAndrew Sarris
Unfortunately, Support Your Local Sheriff is basically serial material that in straining to be something more ends up being something less. [08 May 1969, p.47]
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