
Support Your Local Gunfighter(1971)
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.


“It's the lafftime of a lifetime ! . . as "Wild Bill" Fields tries to tame the West!”
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.

Mae West
Flower Belle Lee

W.C. Fields
Cuthbert J. Twillie

Joseph Calleia
Jeff Badger

Dick Foran
Wayne Carter

Ruth Donnelly
Aunt Lou

Margaret Hamilton
Mrs. Gideon

Donald Meek
Amos Budge

Fuzzy Knight
Cousin Zeb

Willard Robertson
Uncle John

George Moran
Milton, Twillie's Indian Confederate
My Little Chickadee is a comedy, western film released in 1940 exploring themes of con man, masked man, bandit, pretend marriage. Directed by Edward F. Cline, it stars Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia. While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
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