Goldie Hawn's recurring go-go dancer character on 'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In' was quite possibly the reason for her casting as the Blueberry of Billingsgate in this bawdy Seventies flick. Goldie lets it all hang out here if you know what I mean, as long as you don't touch her plums. Her eventual partner in crime for this comedic Western is George Segal, putting the dirt in Dirtwater Fox as an all around con man and enterprising card shark. After helping the notorious Bloodworth gang hold up the town bank of Dirtwater, he helps himself to the loot in question, a forty thousand dollar stash that's at the center of this caper film.
Blueberry makes the transition to the Duchess of Swansbury after grabbing a handful of Charlie Molloy's (Segal) loot, fitting herself out with a fashionable outfit from a showroom window. For 1882, sixty five dollars seemed like an awful lot of money for a dress suit, but then again it was imported, so who knows? For the record, she filled it out very well.
The film careens it's way through assorted scenarios involving a lecherous Mormon family head and the Bloodworth's hot on the trail of their stolen money. The picture's funniest segment is probably the stagecoach conversation between Charlie and the Duchess done in a combination of pidgin English, French and German in a non-sensical jumble, which for all it's goofiness is easy enough to understand.
The unheralded star of the picture of course is Charlie Molloy's horse Black Jack who for some reason didn't earn a cast credit for this picture, unlike his predecessors Trigger and Silver. B Western movie cowboy Allan 'Rocky' Lane also rode a horse in his pictures named Black Jack, and when his on screen career was over, Lane became the voice of TV's talking horse Mr. Ed. However Mr. Ed and Lane's Black Jack never had a lucky number '21' emblazoned on his rump like Charlie's horse did.
Blueberry makes the transition to the Duchess of Swansbury after grabbing a handful of Charlie Molloy's (Segal) loot, fitting herself out with a fashionable outfit from a showroom window. For 1882, sixty five dollars seemed like an awful lot of money for a dress suit, but then again it was imported, so who knows? For the record, she filled it out very well.
The film careens it's way through assorted scenarios involving a lecherous Mormon family head and the Bloodworth's hot on the trail of their stolen money. The picture's funniest segment is probably the stagecoach conversation between Charlie and the Duchess done in a combination of pidgin English, French and German in a non-sensical jumble, which for all it's goofiness is easy enough to understand.
The unheralded star of the picture of course is Charlie Molloy's horse Black Jack who for some reason didn't earn a cast credit for this picture, unlike his predecessors Trigger and Silver. B Western movie cowboy Allan 'Rocky' Lane also rode a horse in his pictures named Black Jack, and when his on screen career was over, Lane became the voice of TV's talking horse Mr. Ed. However Mr. Ed and Lane's Black Jack never had a lucky number '21' emblazoned on his rump like Charlie's horse did.