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- BFI identifier44781
- Date1958 (Copyright)
1958-12-26 (Release) - Production countryUSA, United Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisLondon gunsmiths, Jonathan Tibbs & Co., are in financial straits, so the young Jonathan Tibbs travels to the American west where he believes that he will be able to find more business. Arriving in the town Fractured Jaw, Tibbs finds himself in the middle of a range war between two rival ranches. Through a series of misunderstandings the townsfolk believe that Tibbs is an experienced gunslinger, with the result that he is made the town sheriff. With the assistance of Kate, the sharp-shooting owner of the town's saloon, and the local Indians, Tibbs successfully brings peace to Fractured Jaw. (NFA Catalogue) Comedy western about English tenderfoot who outwits toughs and Indians, and finds romance while visiting the nineteenth-century west. (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirected by: Raoul Walsh
©/Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
[Production Company]: Angel Productions
view all - CastKenneth More (Jonathan Tibbs)
Jayne Mansfield (Kate)
Henry Hull (Doc Masters, town mayor)
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Title
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/A21B-3DDA-2116-0441-E73B-WCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Based on a story by Jacob Hay - SCR-15980
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-44781
Small pressbook held. See FILM PROGRAMMES List.
view all - StillsPhotograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-2002530
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-2002531
Photograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-2002532
Photograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-2002533
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-2002535
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Work - 44781 - 1958 (Copyright)
USA - Film - Fiction
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