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Real Adriatic Store - The Cheyenne Social Club
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List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $18.45
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Ane Langdon, Elaine Devry
Directed By: Gene Kelly
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790741048
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0790741040
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1999-05-11
Running Time: 103
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1970-06-12
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This 1970 film teams director Gene Kelly with two veteran Hollywood actors in a light romp about two over-the-hill cowboys who inherit a bordello. Henry Fonda and James Stewart dusted off their spurs to team up in this appealing if formulaic western comedy. The two Hollywood legends play aging cowpokes who seem to do nothing but get on each other's nerves as they travel aimlessly through the West. They finally hang their hats at a new home--Stewart's newly acquired bordello, presided over by Shirley Jones. Theirs is an uneasy alliance, as they set up shop and have to deal with the women and their needs. There are some light comic moments as director Gene Kelly keeps everything breezy, so that even the obligatory gunfight at the film's end isn't what one would expect. This is not a classic on the order of other Westerns featuring Stewart and Fonda, but a chance to see two old pros spoofing their own legendary careers and having some fun in the process. --Robert Lane
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Summary: Stewart and Fonda at their comic best!
Comment: The "Cheyenne Social Club" features two legendary actors who define Hollywood's portrayal of the American West. Texas cowboy O'Hanlon (Stewart) receives a letter from a lawyer in Cheyenne notifying him that his brother D.J. has passed away and that he has become the heir to his late brother's estate. He and his saddle-pal Harley Sullivan (Fonda) leave the Texas range and begin the 1000 mile ride to Wyoming.
The trip to Cheyenne provides the backdrop for a 1000 mile conversation by Sullivan, much to the bemused annoyance of the stoic O'Hanlon. Upon their arrival, O'Hanlon finds he has become "a man of property", and is now the proud owner of the legendary "Cheyenne Social Club." He is soon shocked to find his "property" is a notorious frontier bordello known and revered throughout the west. It is stocked with a bevy of frontier beauties and is being run by Shirley Jones who plays "Jenny", the cheery and lovely madam.
The townspeople rejoice upon meeting D.J's brother and shower O'Hanlon and Sullivan with unlimited hospitality and a wealth of perks-until the stuffy, prosaic O'Hanlon proposes closing the belove landmark and pokes a proverbial stick into Cheyenne's beehive-and from there the comedy of errors ensues.
The movie has everything a western could want: bawdy romance, bar-room brawls, gunfights, and the hilarious premise of a man like O'Hanlon who has almost nothing and needs to be careful of what he wishes for-he just might get it! And more than he bargained for in the process. The actors play their characters with a comfortable authenticity that makes "Cheyenne Social Club" an endearing tale of western humor and irony.
It also shows why Stewart and Fonda are Hollywood legends. They made a terrific "buddy" film 20 years before Hollywood invented it.
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Summary: The CSC is the place to be
Comment: Well, the other reviewers pretty much hit the nail on the head. Not the greatest Western of all time, but really good. One of my favorite Stewart/Fonda films. And it is FINALLY coming out on DVD later on this year. Can't wait.
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Summary: Pimpin' IS Easy...Circa 1867
Comment: This is not a good film. The term "classic" need not be applied to this film, no matter those involved. All-Star pairings have never been a guarenteed winner. All it has going for it is it's leads, and even they don't seem that into it.
Cheyenne Social Club gets off quick, as ranch hands Stewart and Fonda up and skeedaddle out of Texas and cattle wrangling, etc., when a letter for Stewart's "John" arrives from a Cheyenne lawyer. Fonda, ever the chum, rides along as he always has, talking John up the whole long way. The rub is that John has inherited from his Civil War-killed brother D.J. a brothel, much to his stilted, Republican shock. After all, he was raised to not approve of such vice-ridden places, and this obvious conflict is the stuff of much stammering primpness from Stewart. It mostly falls flat. Fonda, calm and relaxed in his perennial low class-ness merely tags along, blah, blah, blah.
That two life long cowboys wouldn't pitch a pants induced fit when they realized that they inherited a profitable brothel full of wholesome gals is glaring, and adds a moral weight that doesn't fit the film. I don't even recall the word whorehouse, or brothel, or cathouse, etc. being used. It's on the tip of the tongue, but hey, this was 1970 and three Hollywood giants (Gene Kelly directed, kind of) doing a cowboy comedy must just be for laughs.
And the ladies of the Social Club? Hearts of gold have never been found so glimmering and chaste on a house full of beauties, they're a veritable family, and church or not, they love it when men of the house get around too!
Slow, rarely funny, with a saloon brawl and a crazy outskirts-of-the-town clan shootout at the end, unimpressive work from Stewart and Fonda (being known for natural, calm, relaxed performing has it's draw backs) as they mail it in, and no sign of a point, despite some real connection with certain ladies of the houses, other than the boys' ultimate attachment to the old life....Branding cattle vs. the genuine love of a pretty gal? It's a no-brainer!
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Summary: THE CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB
Comment: Why this comedy/drama western..directed by the great song & dance man himself..Mr.Gene Kelly..was not on DVD..blows my mind.It was release by National General Cinema which is no longer around..some studio should pick up on it..like Paramount did for Warner Bros..John Wayne's Classics..HONDO..ISLAND IN THE SKY..ETC.Fonda & Stewart right from the GO..were GREAT..going from state to state while Fonda kept on talking away at poor Stewart.Their SUPER with each..they play off of each other just as they are..LEGENDS!!Yes..they were just like Robert Duvall & Tommy Lee Jones..from..'LONESOME DOVE..for sure.And also in WIDESCREEN.Somebody please pick up the ball on this LOVEABLE WESTERN.Thankyou---Jack
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Summary: A very sanitized sporting house
Comment: A cute film but most cathouses are tough, hard, places full of strange, desperate & scary people. This film alludes to some of the problems of running a whore house but because of social restraints could not be addressed. I feel that prostitution ( a necessary evil but still an evil) should not be glamourized & the same goes for some other films that come to mind that try to do it.
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