If you liked Frank Sinatra's Tony Rome, you'll like Dirty Dingus Magee. It's a ridiculous, silly sex comedy with an abundance of gags about sex and cleavage, like many 1960s comedies. In the 60s, the restrictive Hays Code was lifted, so films were able to make jokes like that, and show a moderate amount of nudity. So, when you look at it from that perspective, of course Hollywood would go a little nuts making T & A jokes! Dirty Dingus Magee is the name of Frank Sinatra's character; he's a womanizing thief who talks his way out of many sticky situations. The film starts as George Kennedy reunites with Frank; he's not happy to see him, and we soon find out why. Frankie talks and talks, and before we know it, he's robbed George of his nest egg and his favorite hat! The rest of the movie is a tug-of-war between George and Frankie, trying to rob, fight, arrest, and get ahead of the other. It's set in the Wild West, so there are cowboys, Indians, stagecoaches, and babes in brothels galore! As silly as it is—and it is really silly—I actually thought this movie was very funny. George and Frankie have great chemistry together, and both their comedic timings are excellent. It's fast paced and doesn't milk the same joke over and over. Once a gag's been done, Joseph Heller and Tom and Frank Waldman write a new one, equally light-hearted and funny. If you've had a hard week, rent Dirty Dingus Magee and take a load off—just hold on to your hat!

On his way to San Francisco by stagecoach, unemployed George Kennedy is robbed at a rest stop (while he's urinating) by old acquaintance Frank Sinatra as Dingus Magee, who works as an "ass breaker" (he breaks in donkeys). Kennedy takes up with Anne Jackson in the next town, Yerkey's Hole; she's both the mayor and the cathouse madam, and christens Kennedy the new sheriff after a roll in the hay (he must be a helluva lover!). Dingus is arrested (while making love to an Indian squaw), but he breaks out of jail, steals a chest full of money from a stagecoach and is captured by Apaches. The Indians in this movie, speaking in broken English and using 'funny' hand signals, are used as jokesters and punchlines, while Sinatra (in dark make-up) looks shamefaced throughout. This was probably meant to be a western lark, a goofy good time, but instead it's a visual and verbal insult. NO STARS from ****

Don't expect to be sitting on the edge of your seat, but do expect to be entertained. Its a comedy and a spoof of westerns. Comparing this movie to the rounders or support your local sheriff was a huge stretch...heck comparing Support your local sheriff to the rounders is silly too. I would give this movie about what it is rated at...around a 6. The actors are all familiar and since it was made in 1970 it is a piece of nostalgia too. Heck, Jack Elam is in it, so its a true western. Anna is smoking hot (why else would she have been in Elvis movies) Its a silly style western comedy, it is what it is.If it were not for the constant conniving by Sanatra and Kennedy..there really would be less of a plot.

Burt Kennedy who gave us so many good westerns spoofs comes up a wee bit short of good with Dirty Dingus Magee. Not that it doesn't have a few funny moments, but the cast just doesn't quite get with the spirit of the things the way they did in such films as The Rounders and Support Your Local Sheriff.For one thing Frank Sinatra looks like he's waiting for Dino and Sammy to come on the scene. Old Blue Eyes in the meanwhile is just going through the motions of a performance. Which consists of him acting just like a human version of the Road Runner.Wile E. Coyote in this case is George Kennedy who never played such a goofy role on screen before or since. Sinatra spends the entire 91 minutes of Dirty Dingus Magee consistently making a fool out of poor Kennedy.Best performances in the film belong to the women, to Anne Jackson for one of the brassiest bordello madams ever done on screen and to Lois Nettleton as the nymphomaniac school teacher, Prudence Frost. Yes, the name is part of the gag.But when that gag becomes the best one in the film, you've got a problem.