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'The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County' is a 1970 American comedy Western film by Universal Studios, directed by Anton Leader and Ranald MacDougall, and starring Dan Blocker and Nanette Fabray, with a supporting cast featuring Jim Backus, Mickey Rooney, Wally Cox, Jack Elam, Noah Beery, Jr. and Don "Red" Barry. MacDougal wrote the screenplay.

The film became Blocker's final role (besides his long-running role as "Hoss Cartwright" on 'Bonanza') before his death from complications from gall bladder surgery in May 1972. In late 2010, the Encore Westerns channel began showing this film intermittently on their schedule.Examiner.com "Bonanza Fans Can Now Enjoy Dan Blocker in a Different Role"

Synopsis



A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, beloved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send for a mail-order bride. When Charley and many of the townsfolk gather at the train station to greet the woman on her scheduled arrival date, she fails to appear and Charley is publicly embarrassed. Realizing that he has been suckered out of his savings and feeling like a fool, Charley plans to leave the town for good.

Charley is the towns only blacksmith and no one else is available to replace him. In order to persuade him to stay, the townsfolk recruit a saloon girl named Sadie to pose as Charleys mail-order bride. As Charley is a straight-and-narrow sort of person, he has never been in the saloon and does not immediately recognize the woman for who she really is. The film is about Charleys simple-minded efforts to see through the deceit and the townspeoples efforts to maintain the fiction that a saloon girl is as pure as the driven snow.

Cast



* Dan Blocker - Charley

* Nanette Fabray - Sadie

* Jack Elam - Kittrick

* Jim Backus - Staunch

* Wally Cox - Mr Bester

* Mickey Rooney - Indian Tom

* Don "Red" Barry - Rusty

* Hamilton Camp - Mr Fowler

* James McCallion - Dr. Henry

* Noah Beery Jr. - Eddie

* Henry Jones - Hanson

* Marge Champion - Mrs Bester

* Jack Cassidy - Roger Hand

* Stubby Kaye - Bartender

* Byron Foulger - Rev Marshal

* Iron Eyes Cody - Crazy Foot

* Ray Ballard - Carson

* Susan Saint James - Martha Kidd

* Raven Grey - Eagle

* Michael-James Wixted - Boy at train station.

References




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