Destry Rides Again
They make the fighting sinful west blaze into action before your eyes!
7.2(202) 1939-11-30 94 minWesternComedy
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
DirectorGeorge Marshall
ScreenplayGertrude Purcell
ScreenplayHenry Myers
ScreenplayFelix Jackson
ProducerJoe Pasternak
Original Music ComposerFrank Skinner
Cast & characters
James Stewart
as Tom Destry Jr.
Marlene Dietrich
as Frenchy
Mischa Auer
as Boris
Charles Winninger
as Washington Dimsdale
Brian Donlevy
as Kent
Allen Jenkins
as Gyp Watson
Warren Hymer
as Bugs Watson
Irene Hervey
as Janice Tyndall
Una Merkel
as Lily Belle
Billy Gilbert
as Loupgerou
Samuel S. Hinds
as Judge Slade
Jack Carson
as Jack Tyndall
Tom Fadden
as Lem Claggett
Virginia Brissac
as Sophie Claggett
Edmund MacDonald
as Rockwell (as Edmund Macdonald)
Lillian Yarbo
as Clara
Joe King
as Sheriff Keogh
Dickie Jones
as Claggett Boy
Ann E. Todd
as Claggett Girl
Richard Alexander
as Cowboy (uncredited)
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Silver Tip Baker
as Barfly (uncredited)
Chief John Big Tree
as Indian in Saloon (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher
as Pianist (uncredited)
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Loren Brown
as Juggler (uncredited)
