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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

best movie i've ever seen.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Bear with the silly and dated 'yuks' of the first few minutes of the film (in which the lawlessness of 'Bottleneck' is established) - once Destry steps out of the coach (parasol and canary in hand) the film takes off. Jimmy Stewart plays Jimmy Stewart in a cowboy hat, Marlene Dietrich plays Marlene Dietrich in a dance-hall dress, and both are marvellous. The story, which has "No-gun Destry", son of a legendary, tough, fast-shooting sheriff, taking on the local black-hats using just his wits and the rule of law (mostly), is clever and well scripted. The supporting characters are good, especially Brian Donlevy's slimy-smooth 'Kent' and Una Merkel's bossy 'Lily Belle'. Destry's fellow lawmen, Wash (Charles Winninger ) and Boris (Mischa Auer) are played a little broadly (e.g. lots of pop-eyes and 'double takes') for my taste, but the on-going jokes about Boris' pants and name are pretty funny. The movie takes a bit of a darker turn entering the third act, but the climatic showdown is whimsical, with a great twist on the traditional barroom brawl. Like most films of the era, "Destry Rides Again" shows its age, but only in a few scenes, and Stewart's meandering, laconic delivery is timeless. I like Jimmy Stewart's numerous westerns and only wish that he had capped his Western career with one outing as a (really, really) bad guy, like his buddy Henry Fonda did in "Once Upon a Time in the West".

"Destry Rides Again" is the oft filmed story of a non gun toting lawman who cleans up a frontier town. It was previously filmed in 1932 with Tom Mix and later in 1950 as "Frenchie" with Joel McCrea and in 1954 as "Destry" with Audie Murphy.This version which came out in the movies' best year 1939, stars Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart. This film recharged her career and Stewart was just emerging as a major star.The town of Bottleneck is a lawless place under the control of gambler Kent (Brian Donlevy) who with his cronies and Frenchie the "saloon singer" (Dietrich) are cheating honest ranchers out of their properties by luring them into poker games.Rancher Lem Claggett (Tom Fadden) is the latest victim. When he loses his ranch, Sheriff Keogh (Joe King) is murdered trying to get the man's ranch back. Kent has Judge Slade (Samuel S. Hinds) appoint town drunk Washington Dimsdale (Charles Winniger) as the new sheriff. Dimsdale however, takes his job seriously and sends for Tom Destry Jr. (Stewart), the son of his former friend Tom Sr.Destry is at first a laughing stock until he demonstrates his prowess with six shooter. Frenchie it seems has a heart of gold and starts to take a liking to Tom. Young Janice Tyndall (Irene Hervey) also has her eye on Tom. Barfly Boris (Mischa Auer) loses his pants to Frenchie in a poker game which results in his wife Lilly Belle (Una Merkel) charging into the saloon and having a slam bang fight with Frenchie.Following a tragic event Tom becomes angered, straps on his father's guns and.....................................................To me, there was just too much light comedy in light of the seriousness of the story. The likes of Auer, Billy Gilbert As the bartender and Allen Jenkins and Warren Hymer as Donlevy's boys is just too much comedy relief. Even Winniger's character has comedic traits. Jack Carson, who would soon become known for his comedic roles, plays a rough and tough rancher who is at first mistaken for Destry.Dietrich's character was hilariously parodied by Madeliene Kahn in "Blazing Saddles" (1974)to the point that Dietrich's performance is overshadowed to modern viewers. It did however, get her back into the spotlight as she would follow this film up with two with John Wayne. James Stewart was just starting to be seen as a major star. He would appear in the classic "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" the same year and win an Academy Award the following year for "The Philadelphia Srory".Despite it's faults, this film is still looked upon as a true classic.

Destry Rides again is a cool western comedy about a town called Bottleneck having no place for law and order. Tom Destry, son of town's heroic ex-sheriff comes into Bottleneck to become new deputy. Destry's naivety and non-violence makes him joke of the town not aware of his intelligence. It is about how young Destry turns the whole town upside down. It has a wonderful cast featuring young James Stewart in a role which always plays consummately. Marlene Dietrich is also one of the chief attraction of the film, playing a bold and recklessly stunning bar singer. Movie delivers some great laughs and also maintains the seriousness of the story. Overall, it's a solid entertainer. Highly recommended for all Jimmy Stewart fans.

If you are after a good Western, avoid this for pity's sake. In a genre where clichés are part of the territory, this one packs so many into the first five minutes that nothing it has to say thereafter is going to carry much weight.Jimmy Stewart is the only reason to watch Destry Rides Again. That buttoned down charm is always great to watch, and the character is a good role for him in many ways. The device of him telling stories about his friends as little parables works well in these capable hands.Marlene Dietrich, by contrast, is awful: her singing, her looks and her acting made me ask why she was ever in movies.It's the queasy attempted mix of comedy, musical and Western that really sink this film I think. In the end, it doesn't do any of them well.