Support Your Local Sheriff!Support Your Local Sheriff! - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video GamesSupport Your Local Sheriff!
Support Your Local Sheriff! is a 1969 Western comedy starring James Garner and produced by his own Cherokee Productions, parodying the familiar trope of a lone lawman facing a gang out outlaws with little support from his town. Garner riffs on his Bret Maverick persona as the sharpshooting but risk-averse Jason McCullough, who takes on the thankless job of taming the gold-rich city of Calendar, Colorado Territory.
The following firearms were used in the film Support Your Local Sheriff!:
Nearly everyone in the town of Calendar carries a Single Action Army in their gunbelt, mostly with the 5½" "Artillery" barrel. Users include the new sheriff Jason McCullough (James Garner), his rowdy and reluctant new deputy Jake (Jack Elam), local toughs Joe Danby (Bruce Dern), Luke Danby (Dick Peabody), and Tom Danby (Gene Evans), and their cantankerous father "Pa" Danby (Walter Brennan).
Jason's office gun rack also includes a long double-barreled shotgun with exposed hammers, which Jake grabs when confronting Pa Danby outside the jail.
In addition to the shotgun, Jason inherits five Winchester Model 1892 Saddle Ring Carbines with his new sheriff's office, which he, Jake, and Prudy Perkins (Joan Hackett) take into battle against the similarly armed Danby gang. These are anachronistic given the film's presumed setting in the 1870s prior to Colorado's statehood in August 1876.
