Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)
Sinatra plays cowboys and indians for adults!
91 min
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.
- Release date
- November 18, 1970
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Frank Sinatra as Dingus Billy Magee
- George Kennedy as Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill
- Anne Jackson as Belle Nops
- Lois Nettleton as Prudence Frost
- Jack Elam as John Wesley Hardin
- Michele Carey as Anna Hot Water
- John Dehner as Brig. Gen. George
- Henry Jones as Rev. Green
- Harry Carey Jr. as Charles Stuart
- Paul Fix as Crazy Blanket
Crew
- Burt Kennedy · Director
- David Markson · Writer
- Tom Waldman · Writer
- Frank Waldman · Writer
- Joseph Heller · Writer
- Burt Kennedy · Producer
- Jeff Alexander · Composer
- Harry Stradling Jr. · Cinematographer
- William B. Gulick · Editor