Overview:
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.| Status: | Released (1939-11-30) |
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| Awards: | 1 win |
| BoxOffice: | $345,000 |
| Screen: | Felix Jackson, Gertrude Purcell, Henry Myers |
| Productions: | Universal Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Pусский |
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- 854: James Stewart - Tom Destry Jr.
- 2896: Marlene Dietrich - Frenchy
- 39801: Mischa Auer - Boris
- 83474: Charles Winninger - Washington Dimsdale
- 41755: Brian Donlevy - Kent
- 30005: Allen Jenkins - Gyp Watson
- 74876: Warren Hymer - Bugs Watson
Crews
- 148850: Gertrude Purcell - Screenplay - Writing
- 105570: Felix Jackson - Story - Writing
- 223371: Henry Myers - Screenplay - Writing
- 1552: Milton Carruth - Editor - Editing
- 105570: Felix Jackson - Screenplay - Writing
- 14284: Hal Mohr - Director of Photography - Camera
- 13958: Jack Otterson - Art Direction - Art
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Reviews
John Chard
Review text:
Welcome to Bottleneck. Deputy Tom Destry Jr. (James Stewart) rides in to Bottleneck and sets about ridding the town of its riff-raff elements - without guns! Based on the novel by Max Brand, Destry Rides Again simultaneously spoofed the Western genre whilst reinvigorating Marle ....
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This was very interesting and I enjoyed it significantly. It's weird watching very early James Stewart--he's not what one would consider a conventional romantic male lead--and this is a very bizarre Western/comedy/musical. Anything starring Dietrich of this vintage is priceless, no d ....
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Brian Donlevy ("Kent") and Malrene Dietrich ("Frenchy") pretty much run the town of Bottle Neck. Everyone comes to their saloon where they blow off steam and where she regularly serenades them with some toe-tappers. Upstairs, "Kent" runs a crooked poker game and together they fleece ....
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