Dirty Dingus Magee

Dirty Dingus Magee
Directed by	Burt Kennedy
Produced by	Burt Kennedy
Written by	David Markson (novel) Tom Waldman Frank Waldman Joseph Heller
Starring	Frank Sinatra George Kennedy Anne Jackson Jack Elam John Dehner
Release date(s)	November 18, 1970
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Dirty Dingus Magee is a comic 1970 anti-western film starring Frank Sinatra as the title outlaw and George Kennedy as a sheriff out to capture him. The movie was based on the novel The Ballad of Dingus Magee by David Markson and the screenplay was partly written by Catch-22 author Joseph Heller.

Plot

Dingus Magee (Sinatra) is an outlaw in the old west who undertakes a series of comic adventures with the local sheriff (Kennedy) in pursuit.

Production

Dirty Dingus Magee was filmed under the title Sheriff and the Dirty Scrubber, but the title was changed before release due to legal reasons.^{[citation needed]}

Although the title role was written for a 19 year-old, when Sinatra (then 54) became interested, the character was re-written to be a middle-aged man. Dirty Dingus Magee continued a trend of comic westerns featuring big-name stars.

Cast

• Frank Sinatra as Dingus Magee
• George Kennedy as Hoke Birdsill
• Anne Jackson as Belle Nops
• Lois Nettleton as Prudence Frost
• Jack Elam as Wesley Hardin (spoofing real-life outlaw John Wesley Hardin)
• Michele Carey as Anna Hot Water
• John Dehner as General George
• Henry Jones as Reverend Green
• Harry Carey, Jr. as Charles Stuart
• Paul Fix as Chief Crazy Blanket

External links

• Dirty Dingus Magee at the TCM Movie Database
• Dirty Dingus Magee at the Internet Movie Database