DESTRY RIDES AGAIN - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1939
• Genre: Comedy; Western
• Plot: Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart ride high in this superb comedic western, both a boisterous spoof and a shining example of its genre. As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image and launched a triumphant career comeback, while Stewart cemented his amiable everyman persona, in his first of many westerns, with a charming turn as a gun-abhorring deputy sheriff who uses his wits to bring law and order to the frontier town of Bottleneck. A sparkling script, a supporting cast of virtuoso character actors, and rollicking musical numbers—delivered with unmatched bravado by the magnetic Dietrich—come together to create an irresistible, oft-imitated marvel of studio-era craftsmanship.
• Cast: Marlene Dietrich; James Stewart; Mischa Auer; Charles Winninger; Brian Donlevy; Allen Jenkins; Warren Hymer; Irene Hervey; Una Merkel; Billy Gilbert; Samuel S. Hinds; Jack Carson; Tom Fadden; Virginia Brissac; Edmund MacDonald; Joe King; Dickie Jones; Ann E. Todd; Lillian Yarbo; Richard Alexander; Silver Tip Baker; Chief John Big Tree; Billy Bletcher; Loren Brown; Ralph Bucko; Roy Bucko; George Chesebro; Dora Clement; Bill Cody Jr.; Spade Cooley; Harry Cording; Carmen D'Antonio; Harold DeGarro; O.K. Ford; Sam Garrett; William Gillis; Lloyd Ingraham; Marjorie Kane; Harley Luse; Cactus Mack; Frank McCarroll; Bud McClure; Merrill McCormick; Philo McCullough; Robert McKenzie; Charles Murphy; Mary Shannon; Rudy Sooter; Betta St. John; William Steele; Leo Sulky; Al Taylor; Harry Tenbrook; Jack Tornek; Minerva Urecal; Leslie Vincent; Hank West; Dan White; Blackie Whiteford; Alex Woloshin; Duke York; George Marshall; Felix Jackson; Gertrude Purcell; Henry Myers; Max Brand; Hal Mohr; Frank Skinner
• Director: George Marshall
• Runtime: 1:34
• Company: Universal Pictures Company, Inc., Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, The Film Foundation, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie