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This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This a enjoyable comic B Western that l saw for first time in late 1976 in my hometown when l was a boy...Glenn Ford is amazing as outsider and how he wants that the people know him before to bring all sheep to a Cattle's valley...but for me the movie resume in two different and amusing persons Milt (Edgar Buchanan) and Jumbo (Mickey Shaughnessy) Milt is clever,peaceful and funny....Jumbo is thug,stupid and funny... they are the true stars of this comic western....the remains of the movie is usual as always but Milt and Jumbo is remarkable guys!!Resume:First Watch: 1976 / How Many: 5 / Source: TV-Cable TV-DVD / Rating: 7.5

Glenn Ford was very busy as an actor in 1958- 6 films including Torpedo Run and this movie. Because of his being busy, this movie though well cast is kind of an assembly line production. There are some accidents in this film that make people think it is supposed to be a comedy.The biggest one is the cast. Leslie Nielsen, Edgar Buchanan, and Slim Pickens all became know for comedy later in their careers. Just because they are in this cast does not mean it is a comedy. Just because this is sheep versus cattle doe not make it a serious film either.What we have is something in-between. Ford plays his role straight and yet at times is funny himself. Shirley MacLaine's role here as Fords girl Dell is not fully exploited here. I think that explains the whole movie. A good looking talented cast and an uneven script. Writer James Edward Grant would write a better western comedy with McLintock later featuring the Duke, Chill Wills and Buchanan amongst others but in this movie he is still working on how to shape a western comedy.This film is a pleasant diversion for those who like the cast. I believe it was intended to be more serious than it is but with everyone being so busy cranking out other films, and a lot of old western actors, the film is just a pleasure to watch and wonder if they really had tried to make a comedy here, how it would have turned out?

A man comes into a town to settle down with his flock of sheep, something that does not sit well with the resident cattlemen. The film contains a number of funny characters. About the only character who's serious is future funny man Nielsen as the villain who rules the town until Ford arrives. Ford is terrific in the title role of an easygoing fellow who just wants to settle down with his sheep. MacLaine is charming as a feisty young woman who is betrothed to Nielsen, unaware of his shady past. The supporting cast includes such veterans as Buchanan, Shaughnessy, and Pickens. Under the capable direction of veteran Marshall, the film moves at a breezy pace.

Gambler Jason Sweet is a proud winner of a herd of sheep in a poker game.He takes them by train into the middle of cattle country.They don't like it there too much.Local cattle baron "Colonel" Steven Bedford wants him to take his sheep and leave the town.That's not what he had planned.There is also some attraction between Jason and Steve's girl, Dell Payton.The Sheepman is a George Marshall western comedy from 1958.Glenn Ford does a great job in the lead.You've got to like Shirley MacLaine in the feminine part.Leslie Nielsen makes a terrific baddie, if you forget about his latter reputation as the rubber faced comedian.Mickey Shaughnessy plays "Jumbo" McCall.Edgar Buchanan is Milt Masters.Willis Bouchey is Frank Payton.Pernell Roberts portrays Chocktaw Neal.Slim Pickens plays the part of Marshal.Norman Leavitt is Town Loafer.The comedy is pretty nice in this movie.And so is the romance.In the end, at the last showdown we experience some intense moments.This is an enjoyable western comedy that will keep you satisfied.