cult film freak: GLENN FORD IN GEORGE MARSHALL'S WESTERN 'THE SHEEPMAN'

Written by James M. Tate / 3/23/2022 / No comments / edgar buchanan , forties , glenn ford , leslie nielsen , mickey shaughnessy , shirley maclaine , warner archives , western , william bowers

GLENN FORD IN GEORGE MARSHALL'S WESTERN 'THE SHEEPMAN'

3/23/2022 | No comment

Title: THE SHEEPMAN Year: 1958 Rating: ****

George Marshall's THE SHEEPMAN could have been a genuine satire, deliberately playing upon Western tropes as "stranger in town" Glenn Ford knows there's always the expository-spouting "cracker barrel philosopher" (Edgar Buchanan); the brawling bully everyone fears (Mickey Shaughnessy); and Leslie Neilsen as the powerful yet sophisticated villain, an old acquaintance of Ford's Jason Sweet about to marry oblivious local tomboy Shirley MacClaine.

Co-written by William Bowers, THE SHEEPMAN resembles his later SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF with a resilient sharpshooter who, no matter what's thrown at him, from fists to bullets, deals with cowboys protecting their cattle with the prospect of sheep... The only real flaw is both THE SHEEPMAN movie and character doesn't always take itself/himself completely serious. Then again, like James Garner in SHERIFF, it's practically an unflappable superhero Western flick, so why worry? That's left to everyone he's conning or, in headstrong-stubborn MacClaine's case, romancing... And yet, even for a picture that toys with so many purposeful clichés, it's never too predictable.

Shirley MaClaine and Glenn Ford in THE SHEEPMAN

Leslie Nielsen and Glenn Ford in THE SHEEPMAN

Glenn Ford in THE SHEEPMAN

Edgar Buchanan and Glenn Ford in THE SHEEPMAN

Shirley MaClaine in THE SHEEPMAN

Shirley MaClaine and Glenn Ford in THE SHEEPMAN

The Sheepman Warner Archive Blue Cover

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