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The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday

1976 · 102 min

A scruffy, amiable ramble through the old West, more shaggy-dog charm than shoot-'em-up, with a soft spot for its ragtag losers.

Tagline
They Weren't Forgotten By History... They Were Left Out On Purpose!
Overview
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fifty-nine thousand for their trouble. After being thwarted in this attempt, they, and a would-be named Thursday, hatch a plan to kidnap Colby's wife, Nancy Sue, who is coincidently Sam's old flame, but find that Nancy Sue is not the sweet girl that Sam remembers.

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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • campystrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • revenge
  • greed
  • love
  • redemption
  • friendship
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror0
Humour7
Realism4
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
comedy, western
Directed by
Don Taylor
Written by
Richard Alan Shapiro
Starring
Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp, Elizabeth Ashley, Strother Martin, Sylvia Miles, Kay Lenz, Howard Platt
Cinematography
Álex Phillips Jr.
Runtime
102 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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