James Garner’s Support Your Local Sheriff is as good a comedy western as you would ever find. It’s not a spoof or a send-up like Blazing Saddles. More a wry subversion. The story is passably western. As I’ve mentioned before, Garner’s Jason McCullough gets diverted on his travels to Australia and becomes the titular sheriff …

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James Garner’s Support Your Local Sheriff is a very amusing comedy western in which a group of actors who could play dramatic roles in keep a straight face while sending up some familiar scenarios. Garner’s Jason McCullough gets diverted on his travels to Australia and becomes the titular sheriff of a lawless frontier town and …

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