I watched this on the Starz Western network on a Sunday morning. I had set my DVR to record Alain Delon films looking for more of his French crime films, notably Le Cercle Rouge. I am also a Dean Martin fan, having just rewatched Rio Bravo, so when this was recorded I was looking forward to it. This is probably the best comedy Delon was in that I saw, My wife and I found ourselves laughing many times. I wasn't sure if it was going to be a Western action film, but you know from the opening cartoon credits and song that it is a Western comedy, which don't always work out well. In this instance it was done very good as the jokes kept coming. If you are a fan of F Troop the TV show you will like this film. F Troop was shown after school in the 1970s and I would regularly watch it along with the Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island. That show was only on 2 seasons and the first season from 1965 was in black and white so to show it on a daily basis in reruns for many years in the New York City market attests to how funny the show was. This film may have lifted the Jewish actors doing their Borscht Belt shtick playing Indians from F Troop because thats who was on that show. But a non Jewish actor playing an Indian, Michael Ansara, has some really funny moments as well as the chief with his flunky tribe. In fact, one scene with him involving fire got a good belly laugh out of me. Martin, Delon, Bishop and Ansara all have some good scenes as well as Peter Graves with what another reviewer mentioned and his commands that his men wonder what he is saying. Highly recommended as far as Western comedy goes. 8 of 10!
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