One night at a bar he "stops" a pimp/deputy from beating a girl.

While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Rex O'Herlihan: You're not a good guy at all! 7 out of 10Looking for some great streaming picks? Wayne later described it as "probably the best acting I've done on film. A hapless Navy grunt is assigned SP duty. It may not be a great movie but its definitely worth a watch. I'd forgotten about this little gem until I was looking at Tom Berenger's credits. She in turn will try anything to escape. You gotta date and date and date and date and sometimes marry 'em before they, you know." Where the cowboy star has a new set of duds on for each scene, foils the bad guys and gets the girl but would rather kiss the horse. When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.

The corrupt sheriff uses Zack's son for revenge and Zack uses his tank. Rustlers' Rhapsody tries to challenge the age old rule that you can't satirize the Western, ... Root's kicking in: Rex O'Herlihan: Root's kicking in. Nevertheless, the Colonels, over Bob's objection, arrange for Peter to be bushwhacked. On his way out of town, while preparing to change roles to that of a sidekick, Rex explains to Peter that he rides into town, kisses the girls and rides out again. He explains that he "knows the future" inasmuch as "these Western towns are all the same" and that it's his "karma" to "ride into a town, help the good guys, who are usually poor for some reason, against the bad guys, who are usually rich for some reason, and ride out again." A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader - Eddie Wilson - may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album. This rouses Rex to round up the sheep herders and face down Bob and the rancher/railroad combine. The storyline is thin because they were all pretty much the same back in the 50's. In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him. Bailey, Marilu Henner, Andy Griffith. While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Bob reports that Rex is finished as a Good Guy. A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail. Directed by Hugh Wilson. "According to an academic analysis published in 2017, Westerns conventionally juxtapose cattle ranching with sheep herding as a signifier of masculinity: 24 of 24 people found this review helpful.

Was this review helpful to you? While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Sergeant Major Zack arrives at a new army base with his wife, son and Sherman tank. Favorite line G.W. On his high-stepping horse Wildfire, Rex rides into the town of Oakwood Estates, walks into a saloon and meets Peter, the Town Drunk (Bailey). Rex O'Herlihan, The Singing Cowboy, finds himself in color and enters a cliché-ridden town, in which the evil cattle baron ( a list of 46 titles But then the Colonels import "Wrangler" Bob Barber (Rex backs down from the shootout. We loved those old films and we really are trying to say something about them, like how can the hero keep changing his shirt? "Patrick Wayne was hired to appear in the film mid-shoot after the producers were unhappy with the performance of another actor already cast in the part. This means to appreciate the humor, you're probably closer to 40 than 20 or spend a lot of time watching TVLand. This movie satires the Saturday matinee western where you can tell the good guys in the white hats from the bad guys. It is a parody of many Western conventions, most visibly of the singing cowboy films that were prominent in the 1930s and the 1940s. He apologizes to Rex and throws a party at Rancho Ticonderoga, after which Rex and Peter (who survived because Rex had him wear a bulletproof vest) ride off together into the sunset. The film was a passion project of director Hugh Wilson, who grew up loving Westerns he would see at the Saturday afternoon matinee. With Tom Berenger, G.W.

Bob is revealed as not a Good Guy at all because, after all, he is a lawyer. In exchange for a free drink, Peter explains the background: the town, and especially the sheep herders ("nice enough, but they smell God-awful"), are being terrorized by the cattle ranchers, headed by The Colonel goes for help to the boss of the railroad men (Rex outwits the Bad Guys because he knows their every move before they do. Moto thwarts a ruthless band of international agents who try to foment an international incident by mining the entrance to the Suez Canal and blaming the British. Use the HTML below. Action A martial artist must defeat a plan by ninjas to create a worldwide training camp for terrorists. Rustlers' Rhapsody is a 1985 American comedy – Western film.

He was able to make it after the success of In the mid 1980s there was a brief revival in the popularity of the Western, with the studios making films like "This isn't really a send up", said Wilson. Fictionalized story of how the Dalton brothers were wronged by a crooked development company and became outlaws when the corrupt local courts offered them no justice. Bailey saying "Gee Rex, you really ARE a good guy!" In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.