Dirty Dingus Magee
5.2
“Sinatra plays cowboys and indians for adults!”
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.
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Cast
24 people
Frank Sinatra
Dingus Billy Magee
Known for
The Manchurian Candidate
Ocean's Eleven
George Kennedy
Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill
Known for
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Cool Hand Luke
Anne Jackson
Belle Nops
Known for
The Shining
Lois Nettleton
Prudence Frost
Known for
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Deadly Blessing
Jack Elam
John Wesley Hardin
Known for
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Cannonball Run
Michele Carey
Anna Hot Water
Known for
El Dorado
Man from Atlantis
John Dehner
Brig. Gen. George
Known for
Airplane II: The Sequel
The Left Handed Gun
Henry Jones
Rev. Green
Known for
Vertigo
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Harry Carey Jr.
Charles Stuart
Known for
Back to the Future Part III
Trinity Is Still My Name
Paul Fix
Crazy Blanket
Known for
To Kill a Mockingbird
Zabriskie Point
Marya Thomas
China Poppy
Also in
Stay Away, Joe
The Wild Wild West
Terry Wilson
Sergeant
Known for
Westworld
Escape to Witch Mountain
Burt Kennedy Director · Frank Waldman Writer Tom Waldman Writer
United States release November 18, 1970 · Produced in United States
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 18, 1970
Theatrical
Germany
April 9, 1971 · Theatrical
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