Dirty Dingus Magee

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.

Cast

Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

as Dingus Billy Magee

George Kennedy

George Kennedy

as Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill

Anne Jackson

Anne Jackson

as Belle Nops

Lois Nettleton

Lois Nettleton

as Prudence Frost

Jack Elam

Jack Elam

as John Wesley Hardin

Michele Carey

Michele Carey

as Anna Hot Water

John Dehner

John Dehner

as Brig. Gen. George

Henry Jones

Henry Jones

as Rev. Green

Harry Carey, Jr.

Harry Carey, Jr.

as Charles Stuart

Paul Fix

Paul Fix

as Crazy Blanket

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