Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fallen Archery. In Nottingham. England, the sheriff announced that an all-out search was being conducted for thieves who stole the arrow and part of a longbow from a statue of Robin Hood outside Nottingham Castle...
...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. Jayne Mansfield has such trouble speaking English that some customers may holler for subtitles, but Kenneth More manages to say wahoo with a sly British accent in this fairly successful attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A genie, Cyclops and a floppy dragon conspiring against human types in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy...
...Right. Many New England witches were hanged, none was burned. The exception was Salem's Giles Cory who was bound, stretched out on the ground and covered with heavy stones. When the dying man's tongue protruded from his mouth, the local sheriff pushed it back with his cane...
...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (20th Century-Fox), a British western shot in Spain, was apparently expected to convey the satiric notion that when Hollywood reaches for the six-shooter it usually produces something of a large bore. But somehow what comes across is the wistful and delightfully absurd idea that a good many apparently tame Englishmen secretly like to fancy themselves racketing around the Wild West like pure cussedness in cowpants, blasting the bepluribus out of silver dollars at 30 paces and generally keeping the beastly natives in their place...
...invisible assistance of a spring and lever strapped to his forearm) casually outdraws one of the fastest guns in the Territory. At that instant, of course, he wins the heart of the cutie that's known as Kate (Jayne Mansfield), but to his horror he also acquires a sheriff's star. And so the rest of the picture resolves into a daydream of how easily the West would have been won if the English, instead of mere colonials...