Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his money. Hoke goes to the nearby town of Yerkey's Hole, where Belle Knops is both mayor and bordello-mistress. She appoints Hoke Town Sheriff and tries to get him to stir up the Indians so the soldiers at the nearby fort (the main customers) won't go to Little Big Horn. Dingus tries to stir up more trouble and get involved with the pale, baby-talking Indian, Anna. The film is a send-up of the oft-repeated phrase "the Code of the West" and exaggerates it and what it stands for into the ridiculousness that it is.
Director:Burt Kennedy
Writers:David Markson (book), Tom Waldman (screenplay)
Frank Sinatra ... Dingus Billy Magee
George Kennedy ... Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill
Anne Jackson ... Belle Nops (mayor of Yerkey's Hole)
Lois Nettleton ... Prudence Frost (schoolteacher)
Jack Elam ... John Wesley Hardin
Michele Carey ... Anna Hot Water
John Dehner ... Brig. Gen. George
Henry Jones ... Rev. Green
Harry Carey Jr. ... Charles Stuart
Paul Fix ... Crazy Blanket (Anna's father)
Marya Christen ... China Poppy (Belle's maid)
Terry Wilson ... Sergeant
Willis Bouchey ... Ira Teasdale
Tom Fadden ... Trooper
Mina Martinez ... Belle's girl
Country:USA
Language:English
Release Date:March 1971 (Austria)
Runtime:91 min
Sound :Mono
Color:Color (Metrocolor)
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