MOVIE QUEUE: Jimmy Stewart Westerns To Watch
Destry Rides Again (1939)
he film features Stewart as the lawman son of a famous (deceased) lawman father. The difference is that Tom Destry doesn’t carry a gun. The townsfolk mock him mercilessly, but we’re in on the secret, even if the bad guys are not: Tom is, in fact, an expert with his tucked-away six-shooters, and in the end — after the deaths of his friend and deputy (the lovable Charles Winninger) and Marlene Dietrich’s femme fatale — he’ll strap on those “smoke-wagons,” leaving
