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Dirty Dingus Magee Directed by Burt Kennedy Produced by Burt Kennedy Written by David Markson (novel)
Tom Waldman
Frank Waldman
Joseph HellerStarring Frank Sinatra
George Kennedy
Anne Jackson
Jack Elam
John DehnerRelease date(s) November 18, 1970 Running time 91 minutes Country United States Language English Dirty Dingus Magee is a comic 1970 anti-western film starring Frank Sinatra as the title outlaw and George Kennedy as a sheriff out to capture him. The movie was based on the novel The Ballad of Dingus Magee by David Markson and the screenplay was partly written by Catch-22 author Joseph Heller.
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Plot
Dingus Magee (Sinatra) is an outlaw in the old west who undertakes a series of comic adventures with the local sheriff (Kennedy) in pursuit.
Production
Dirty Dingus Magee was filmed under the title Sheriff and the Dirty Scrubber, but the title was changed before release due to legal reasons.[citation needed]
Although the title role was written for a 19 year-old, when Sinatra (then 54) became interested, the character was re-written to be a middle-aged man. Dirty Dingus Magee continued a trend of comic westerns featuring big-name stars.
Cast
- Frank Sinatra as Dingus Magee
- George Kennedy as Hoke Birdsill
- Anne Jackson as Belle Nops
- Lois Nettleton as Prudence Frost
- Jack Elam as Wesley Hardin (spoofing real-life outlaw John Wesley Hardin)
- Michele Carey as Anna Hot Water
- John Dehner as General George
- Henry Jones as Reverend Green
- Harry Carey, Jr. as Charles Stuart
- Paul Fix as Chief Crazy Blanket
External links
Films directed by Burt Kennedy 1960s The Canadians (1961) · Mail Order Bride (1964) · The Rounders (1965) · The Money Trap (1965) · Return of the Seven (1966) · Welcome to Hard Times (1967) · The War Wagon (1967) · Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) · Young Billy Young (1969) · The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)1970s Dirty Dingus Magee (1970) · The Deserter (1971) · Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) · Hannie Caulder (1971) · The Train Robbers (1973) · Sidekicks (1974) · All the Kind Strangers (1974) · The Killer Inside Me (1976) · Wolf Lake (1978)1980s The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987) · The Trouble with Spies (1987) · Once Upon a Texas Train (1988)1990s Big Bad John (1990) · Suburban Commando (1991)Categories:- 1970 films
- American films
- Western (genre) comedy films
- Films directed by Burt Kennedy
- Western film stubs
- 1970s comedy film stubs
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