Story Line
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
“They make the fighting sinful west blaze into action before your eyes!”
Top Cast
James Stewart
Tom Destry Jr.
Marlene Dietrich
Frenchy
Mischa Auer
Boris
Charles Winninger
Washington Dimsdale
Brian Donlevy
Kent
Allen Jenkins
Gyp Watson
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Rating
7.2/ 10
Release Date
1939-11-30
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
WesternComedy
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User Reviews (3)
John Chard
8/10
•8/28/2014Welcome to Bottleneck.
Deputy Tom Destry Jr. (James Stewart) rides in to Bottleneck and sets about ridding the town of its riff-raff elements - without guns!
Based on the novel by Max Brand, Destry Rides Again simultaneously spoofed the Western...
talisencrw
9/10
•7/31/2016This was very interesting and I enjoyed it significantly. It's weird watching very early James Stewart--he's not what one would consider a conventional romantic male lead--and this is a very bizarre Western/comedy/musical. Anything starring Dietrich ...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•6/26/2022Brian Donlevy ("Kent") and Malrene Dietrich ("Frenchy") pretty much run the town of Bottle Neck. Everyone comes to their saloon where they blow off steam and where she regularly serenades them with some toe-tappers. Upstairs, "Kent" runs a crooked po...