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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 403629" data-attributes="member: 7">I started watching THE SHERIFF OF FRACTURED JAW (1958) yesterday during my lunch break, and I finished it later on in the day. Having watched it, I was reminded that I&#039;ve never finished this movie before now.I stand corrected -- the movie is actually pretty good. It has some solid and well-earned laughs. Kenneth More and Jayne Mansfield work well together (critics in 1958 applauded the &quot;mismatched&quot; pairing), even if their on-screen chemistry doesn&#039;t always gel. The story spins a different take on the traditional Western, while still serving up some familiarities we&#039;d all recognize from other films. Jonathan Tibbs (More) is a British guy whose family are wealthy from selling guns. He gets the bright idea to leave England and go to the America West, where he&#039;s heard stories about the people there making good use of guns. Jonathan thinks that, in the West, he&#039;ll help the family business explode in profitability. He ends up in the lawless town of Fractured Jaw, and through a series of circumstances, becomes their new sheriff.Jayne plays Miss Kate, a blonde bombshell hotel owner and salon singer. She&#039;s beautiful, but &quot;it ain&#039;t smart to play her for a sucker&quot;. Her tough exterior hides a warm heart. She &quot;sings&quot; three songs in the film -- &quot;Strolling Down the Lane with Billy&quot;, &quot;If the San Francisco Hills Could Talk&quot;, and &quot;The Valley of Love&quot;, the latter which plays over the opening credits. The songs themselves are catchy and fit well into the plot, but what&#039;s distracting about them is the obvious dubbing of Jayne&#039;s voice with singer Connie Francis. I was so irritated with the dubbing that by the time she sings &quot;The Valley of Love&quot; to Kenneth More while riding the carriage, I fast forwarded through it. What&#039;s more, some of Jayne&#039;s lines appear to be dubbed, too. I can&#039;t tell if they&#039;ve been re-dubbed by Jayne in post-production, or by another actress mimicking a &quot;Western&quot; dialect.THE SHERIFF OF FRACTURED JAW is really a British product masquerading as an American CinemaScope spectacle. The colors are beautiful, the sets sturdy and nice, and the script pretty strong, too. It was popular in England in 1958, becoming the tenth-biggest-box office hit that year. When it was released in America in early 1959, it failed to perform as successfully with U.S. audiences. Critics, for the most, were kind in England and America.It&#039;s online right now, so go watch it and then come tell me what you think.[ATTACH=full]53664[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]53665[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 403629, member: 7"] I started watching THE SHERIFF OF FRACTURED JAW (1958) yesterday during my lunch break, and I finished it later on in the day. Having watched it, I was reminded that I've never finished this movie before now. I stand corrected -- the movie is actually pretty good. It has some solid and well-earned laughs. Kenneth More and Jayne Mansfield work well together (critics in 1958 applauded the "mismatched" pairing), even if their on-screen chemistry doesn't always gel. The story spins a different take on the traditional Western, while still serving up some familiarities we'd all recognize from other films. Jonathan Tibbs (More) is a British guy whose family are wealthy from selling guns. He gets the bright idea to leave England and go to the America West, where he's heard stories about the people there making good use of guns. Jonathan thinks that, in the West, he'll help the family business explode in profitability. He ends up in the lawless town of Fractured Jaw, and through a series of circumstances, becomes their new sheriff. Jayne plays Miss Kate, a blonde bombshell hotel owner and salon singer. She's beautiful, but "it ain't smart to play her for a sucker". Her tough exterior hides a warm heart. She "sings" three songs in the film -- "Strolling Down the Lane with Billy", "If the San Francisco Hills Could Talk", and "The Valley of Love", the latter which plays over the opening credits. The songs themselves are catchy and fit well into the plot, but what's distracting about them is the obvious dubbing of Jayne's voice with singer Connie Francis. I was so irritated with the dubbing that by the time she sings "The Valley of Love" to Kenneth More while riding the carriage, I fast forwarded through it. What's more, some of Jayne's lines appear to be dubbed, too. I can't tell if they've been re-dubbed by Jayne in post-production, or by another actress mimicking a "Western" dialect. THE SHERIFF OF FRACTURED JAW is really a British product masquerading as an American CinemaScope spectacle. The colors are beautiful, the sets sturdy and nice, and the script pretty strong, too. It was popular in England in 1958, becoming the tenth-biggest-box office hit that year. When it was released in America in early 1959, it failed to perform as successfully with U.S. audiences. Critics, for the most, were kind in England and America. It's online right now, so go watch it and then come tell me what you think. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1719324260221.png"]53664[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1719324873540.png"]53665[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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