Destry Rides Again (1939)
- Starring:
- James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, (more)
- Director(s):
- George Marshall
- Category:
- Westerns
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Tom Destry (James Stewart), 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 (Brian Donlevy). His detractors laugh even louder when Destry signs on as deputy to drunken sheriff Wash Dimsdale (Charles Winninger). But the laughter subsides when Destry casually proves himself a crack shot, despite his abhorrence of firearms. Later, when saloon chanteuse Frenchy (Marlene Dietrich), Kent's gal, takes umbrage at Destry's indifferent reaction to her charms, she vows to make a fool of the new deputy. A huge moneymaker, Destry Rides Again served as a spectacular comeback for Marlene Dietrich, who two years earlier had been written off as "box office poison." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 95 mins
Complete Cast:
- James Stewart - Tom Destry
- Charles Winninger - Wash Dimsdale
- Brian Donlevy - Kent
- Allen Jenkins - Gyp Watson
- Warren Hymer - Bugs Watson
- Samuel S. Hinds - Judge Hiram Slade
- Jack Carson - Jack Tyndall
- Joseph King - Sheriff Keogh
- Minerva Urecal - Mrs. DeWitt
- Harry Tenbrook - Stage Rider
- Bob McKenzie - Doctor
- Edmund MacDonald - Rockwell
- Harold DeGarro - Juggler
- Dick Jones - Eli Whitney Claggett
- Billy Bletcher - Pianist
- Harry Cording - Rowdy
- Bill Cody, Jr. - Small Boy
- Virginia Brissac - Sophie Claggett
- Marlene Dietrich - Frenchy
- Mischa Auer - Boris Callahan
- Irene Hervey - Janice Tyndall
- Una Merkel - Lily Belle Callahan
- Tom Fadden - Lem Claggett
- Billy Gilbert - Loupqerou, the Bartender
- Richard Alexander - Cowboy
- Lillian Yarbo - Clara
- Ann E. Todd - Claggett Girl
- William Steele
- Philo McCullough - Bartender
- Bud McClure - Stage Driver
- Loren B. Brown - Juggler
- Lloyd Ingraham - Turner, the Express Agent
- Dora Clement - Woman
- Carmen D'Antonio - Dancer
- Chief John Big Tree - Indian in Saloon
- Director(s):
- George Marshall
- Writer(s):
- Felix Jackson, Gertrude Purcell, Henry Myers
- Producer(s):
- Joe Pasternak
- Categories:
- Westerns
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- 1996 - Destry Rides Again - Library of Congress - U.S. National Film Registry
