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Dirty Dingus Mcgee

1970, Movie, PG, 90 mins

Dirty Dingus Mcgee: Review

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Reviews ranged from ecstatic to putrid for this western comedy with Sinatra and Kennedy top-billed. We're in the middle. Sometime in the mid-1880s Kennedy is traveling near Yerkey's Hole, New Mexico, and Sinatra (Magee) robs him. Kennedy dutifully reports the theft to Jackson, the mayor of Yerkey's Hole. Jackson also runs the town's largest industry, a brothel catering to the local Army men at a nearby fort. Jackson deputizes Kennedy and he goes out searching for Sinatra, locating him rolling in the bushes with Indian maiden Carey. Sinatra is arrested and tossed into jail. Now Jackson learns the cavalry is moving out because general Dehner wants to get to Little Big Horn before that blond upstart Custer. Carey helps Sinatra escape, and Jackson tells the general that it was all done by the local Indians who are about to stage an "uprising." The general would be wise to leave his men at Yerkey's Hole or the entire town will be razed and raped. The truth is that the minute the Army leaves Jackson's business will fail. Meanwhile everyone is chasing Magee. Kennedy wants him because he's stolen a strongbox from a stagecoach. The Indians would like to scalp him because he's taken Carey, a valuable squaw. Carey, a nymphomaniac, is after Sinatra to make "bim bam," but the guy is just getting too old for that kind of dalliance. Sinatra knows that Jackson has lots of money and he aims to get it. In the meantime he has a fling with Nettleton, who is sensational as a sexually repressed schoolmarm who lets it all go the moment Sinatra puts a make on her. Elam plays the standout role, muddled gunslinger John Wesley Hardin. Too bad the film doesn't have more of Elam and less of many of the others. In the end, Sinatra grabs the money and Michele and goes off into the sunset. DIRTY DINGUS MAGEE has plenty of action and a few funny lines, but it is an essentially empty exercise. Director Kennedy lets Sinatra and the picture go too far with tawdry double entendres and many groaners. The script was by the brothers Waldman (HATARI and others) and Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22 and Good As Gold. leave a comment
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