Dirty Dingus Magee

Overview

Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his money. Hoke goes to the nearby town of Yerkey's Hole, where Belle Knops is both mayor and bordello-mistress. She appoints Hoke Town Sheriff and tries to get him to stir up the Indians so the soldiers at the nearby fort (the main customers) won't go to Little Big Horn. Dingus tries to stir up more trouble and get involved with the pale, baby-talking Indian, Anna. The film is a send-up of the oft-repeated phrase "the Code of the West" and exaggerates it and what it stands for into the ridiculousness that it is.

Cast

Frank Sinatra

Dingus Billy Magee

George Kennedy

Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill

Anne Jackson

Belle Nops

Lois Nettleton

Prudence Frost

Jack Elam

John Wesley Hardin

Michele Carey

Anna Hot Water

John Dehner

Brig. Gen. George

Henry Jones

Rev. Green

Harry Carey, Jr.

Charles Stuart

Paul Fix

Crazy Blanket

Marya Thomas

China Poppy

Terry Wilson

Sergeant