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1939 movie

Destry Rides Again
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	George Marshall
Written by	Felix Jackson
Screenplay by	Henry Myers Gertrude Purcell
Based on	Destry Rides Again 1930 novel by Max Brand
Produced by	Joe Pasternak
Starring	Marlene Dietrich James Stewart
Cinematography	Hal Mohr
Edited by	Milton Carruth
Music by	Frank Skinner
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	December 29, 1939 (1939-12-29) (United States)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United states of america
Language	English language
Upkeep	$700,000[1] or $765,000[two]
Box office	$i.6 million[3]

Destry Rides Again is a 1939 American Western motion-picture show directed past George Marshall and starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart. The supporting cast includes Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy, Allen Jenkins, Irene Hervey, Baton Gilbert, Nib Cody Jr., Lillian Yarbo, and Una Merkel.

The opening credits listing the story as "Suggested by Max Make's novel Destry Rides Once more", simply the motion-picture show is almost completely unlike. It also bears no resemblance to the 1932 adaptation of the novel starring Tom Mix, which is oftentimes retitled as Justice Rides Again.

In 1996, Destry Rides Again was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as beingness "culturally, historically, or aesthetically pregnant".^{[4] [5]}

Plot [edit]

Saloon owner Kent, the unscrupulous boss of the fictional Western town of Bottleneck, has the boondocks's sheriff, Mr. Keogh, killed when Keogh asks ane too many questions about a rigged poker game. Kent and Frenchy, a cheap saloon tramp who is his girlfriend, now accept a stranglehold over the local cattle ranchers. The town'southward crooked mayor, Hiram J. Slade, who is in collusion with Kent, appoints the town drunkard, Washington Dimsdale, as the new sheriff, assuming that he will be easy to control and manipulate. However, Dimsdale, a deputy nether the famous constable Tom Destry, promptly swears off drinking, and is able to call upon the latter's as formidable son, Tom Destry Jr., to aid him make Clogging a lawful, respectable town.

Destry arrives in Clogging with Jack Tyndall, a cattleman, and his sister, Janice. Destry initially confounds the townsfolk by refusing to strap on a gun and maintaining civility in dealing with everyone, including Kent and Frenchy. This speedily makes him a thwarting to Dimsdale and a laughingstock to the townspeople; he is mockingly asked to "clean up" Bottleneck past being given a mop and bucket. Even so, subsequently a number of rowdy horsemen ride into town shooting their pistols in the air, he demonstrates uncanny expertise in marksmanship and threatens to jail them if they do it again, earning the respect of Bottleneck's citizens.

Through the townsmen's evasive answers regarding the whereabouts of Keogh, Destry gradually begins to suspect that Keogh was murdered. He confirms this by provoking Frenchy into albeit it, only without a location for the body, he lacks whatever proof. Destry therefore deputizes Boris, a Russian immigrant whom Frenchy had earlier humiliated, and implies to Kent that he had found the body outside of boondocks "in remarkably skillful condition". When Kent sends a member of his gang to check on Keogh's burying site, Boris and Dimsdale follow, capture, and jail him.

Although the gang member is charged with Keogh's murder (in the promise that he would implicate Kent in exchange for clemency), Mayor Slade appoints himself estimate of the trial, making an innocent verdict a foregone determination. To prevent this, Destry calls in a judge from a larger metropolis in secret, simply the plan is ruined after Boris accidentally gives away the other judge'south name in the saloon. Kent orders Frenchy to invite the deputy to her house while other gang members storm the sheriff's part and cause a breakout; at present in love with Destry, she accepts. When shots are fired, he rushes dorsum, to find the jail cell empty and Dimsdale mortally wounded. Destry returns to his room and puts on his gun belt, abandoning his previous delivery to nonviolence.

Nether Destry's control, the honest townsmen class a posse and set up to attack the saloon, where Kent's gang is fortified, while Destry enters through the roof and looks for Kent. At Frenchy's urging, the townswomen march in between the groups, preventing farther violence, before breaking into the saloon and subduing the gang. Kent narrowly escapes, and attempts to shoot Destry from the second floor; Frenchy takes the bullet for him, killing her, and Destry kills Kent.

Some time later, Destry is shown to be the sheriff of a now lawful Bottleneck, repeating to children the stories that Dimsdale told him of the town'south trigger-happy history. He jokingly tells a story most marriage to Janice, implying a wedlock between them volition soon follow.

Cast [edit]

As appearing in screen credits:

• Marlene Dietrich every bit Frenchy, the saloon vocalizer
• James Stewart equally Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Destry Jr., the new deputy
• Mischa Auer as Boris Callahan, the henpecked Russian
• Charles Winninger as Washington "Wash" Dimsdale, the new sheriff
• Brian Donlevy as Kent, the saloon owner
• Allen Jenkins as "Gyp" Watson
• Warren Hymer equally "Bugs" Watson
• Irene Hervey as Janice Tyndall
• Una Merkel as Lily Belle, "Mrs. Callahan"
• Billy Gilbert as Bartender "Loupgerou"
• Samuel S. Hinds as Approximate Slade, the mayor
• Jack Carson every bit Jack Tyndall
• Tom Fadden as Lem Claggett
• Virginia Brissac as Sophie Claggett
• Edmund MacDonald as Rockwell
• Lillian Yarbo as Clara, Frenchy'due south maid
• Joe King as Sheriff Keogh
• Dickie Jones as Claggett's boy
• Ann E. Todd equally Claggett'due south girl

Songs [edit]

Dietrich sings "Meet What the Boys in the Dorsum Room Volition Have" and "You've Got That Expect", written by Frank Loesser, set to music by Frederick Hollander, which accept become classics.

Production [edit]

Western author Max Brand contributed the novel, Destry Rides Again, but the pic likewise owes its origins to Brand'southward serial "Twelve Peers", published in a pulp magazine. In the original work, Harrison (or "Harry") Destry was not a pacifist. As filmed in 1932, with Tom Mix in the starring office, the cardinal grapheme differed in that Destry did wear six-guns.

The film was James Stewart's offset Western (he would not return to the genre until 1950, with Winchester '73, followed by Broken Arrow). The story featured a ferocious cat-fight between Marlene Dietrich and Una Merkel, which obviously acquired a balmy censorship trouble at the time of release.^[half-dozen] The film besides represented Dietrich'southward render to Hollywood after a cord of flops at Paramount ("Affections", "The Scarlet Empress", "The Devil is a Woman") caused her, and a number of other stars, to be labelled "box office poison". While vacationing at Cap d'Antibes with her family, her mentor Josef von Sternberg and her lover Erich Maria Remarque, she received an offering from Joe Pasternak to come to Universal at half the salary she had been receiving for nearly of the 1930s. Pasternak had previously tried to sign Dietrich to Universal while she was nonetheless in Berlin. Unsure of what to practise she was advised by von Sternberg "I made you lot into a Goddess. Now testify them yous have feet of clay".

According to writer/director Peter Bogdanovich, Marlene Dietrich told him during an aircraft flight that she and James Stewart had an affair during shooting and that she became significant but had a undercover abortion without telling Stewart.^[7]

Internationally, the pic was released nether the alternative titles Femme ou Démon in French and Arizona in Castilian.

Reception [edit]

Destry Rides Again was generally well accustomed past the public, besides as critics. Information technology was reviewed by Frank S. Nugent in The New York Times, who observed that the film did not follow the usual Hollywood type-casting. On Dietrich's role, he characterized: "It's difficult to reconcile Miss Dietrich's Frenchy, the cabaret girl of the Encarmine Gulch Saloon, with the posed and posturing Dietrich we terminal saw in Mr. Lubitsch's 'Affections'." Stewart's contribution was similarly treated, "turning in an like shooting fish in a barrel, likable, pleasantly humored performance."^[viii]

Other versions [edit]

• Universal Pictures released an earlier version, also titled Destry Rides Once more (1932), directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Tom Mix and ZaSu Pitts.^[9]
• An almost shot-for-shot remake of the 1939 production, Destry (1954), was also directed by George Marshall and stars Audie Murphy and Thomas Mitchell.
• A Broadway musical version of the story, Destry Rides Over again, opened in New York City at the Imperial Theatre on April 23, 1959, and played 472 performances. Produced past David Merrick, the bear witness had a volume by Leonard Gershe, music and lyrics past Harold Rome, and starred Andy Griffith as Destry and Dolores Gray as Frenchy.
• ABC aired a short-lived goggle box series in 1964, Destry, based on the 1939 and 1954 films, starring John Gavin every bit the son of the movie's title grapheme.

In popular culture [edit]

Marlene Dietrich's character, Frenchy, was the inspiration for the character of Lili Von Shtupp in the Western parody Blazing Saddles.^[10]

References [edit]

Notes

1. ^ Scheuer, P. K. (January 9, 1980). "Pasternak: The man who out-disneyed disney". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 162644291.
2. ^ Dick, Bernard K. (2015). City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. University Printing of Kentucky. p. 117. ISBN9780813158891.
3. ^ "Box role information for French republic in 1945." Box Office Story. Retrieved: April 11, 2015.
4. ^ Stern, Christopher (December iii, 1996). "National Film Registry taps 25 more pix". Diversity . Retrieved September 29, 2020.
5. ^ "Complete National Film Registry List | Film Registry | National Film Preservation Board | Programs at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA . Retrieved September 29, 2020.
6. ^ Quirk 2000, pp. 117–118.
7. ^ Riva 1994, pp. 456, 500.
8. ^ Nugent, Frank S. " 'Destry Rides Again' (1939)." The New York Times, originally published November xxx, 1939. Retrieved: December xiii, 2009.
9. ^ Overview:'Destry Rides Once again' (1932)." IMDb. Retrieved: April xi, 2015.
10. ^ "Mel Brooks: 10 things you never knew about 'Blazing Saddles'". May four, 2014.

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External links [edit]

• Destry Rides Again at IMDb
• Destry Rides Again at the TCM Flick Database
• Destry Rides Again at AllMovie
• Destry Rides Again at the American Flick Found Itemize
• Destry Rides Once again at Rotten Tomatoes
• Destry Rides Once more: Riding High an essay by Farran Smith Nehme at the Criterion Collection
• Destry Rides Again on Lux Radio Theater: Nov v, 1945
• Destry Rides Over again essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Moving picture Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 ISBN 0826429777, pages 298-299 [ane]

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