After an interminable journey across the plains, two itinerant cowboys (the two Hollywood legend Stewart and Fonda) reach Cheyenne, where Stewart has inherited the noisiest bordello in town, which is well-managed by pretty Shirley Jones...
From this moment, the two friends run into assorted problems with the townspeople, specially when one of them kills a guy who has beaten Jones The murdered man's family becomes an implacable enemy...
Shot on location near Santa Fe, New Mexico, the film is neither good nor bad, entitled neither as farce nor Western Some of the jokes about the bordello are labored and repetitious, and there was some complaint over Stewart compromising his clean cut image when he confronts one of the prostitutes in a see-through negligée Stewart wanted the scene cut out, but the company overruled him
The film's director was a surprising choice Stewart's reasons for wanting to use Gene Kelly, whose reputation was scarcely associated with Westerns, remain obscure Perhaps he felt Kelly would sly1y inject more tongue-in-cheek elements, given the bordello angle, than an action-oriented director like Andrew, McLaglen would have
Fonda seems to have had a solid affection for "The Cheyenne Social Club," especially as it gave him and Stewart a chance to really co-star in a movie with some human dimensions...
From this moment, the two friends run into assorted problems with the townspeople, specially when one of them kills a guy who has beaten Jones The murdered man's family becomes an implacable enemy...
Shot on location near Santa Fe, New Mexico, the film is neither good nor bad, entitled neither as farce nor Western Some of the jokes about the bordello are labored and repetitious, and there was some complaint over Stewart compromising his clean cut image when he confronts one of the prostitutes in a see-through negligée Stewart wanted the scene cut out, but the company overruled him
The film's director was a surprising choice Stewart's reasons for wanting to use Gene Kelly, whose reputation was scarcely associated with Westerns, remain obscure Perhaps he felt Kelly would sly1y inject more tongue-in-cheek elements, given the bordello angle, than an action-oriented director like Andrew, McLaglen would have
Fonda seems to have had a solid affection for "The Cheyenne Social Club," especially as it gave him and Stewart a chance to really co-star in a movie with some human dimensions...