Rustlers' Rhapsody - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[bessie]

G.W. Bailey and Tom Berenger later co-starred together on the show Major Crimes.

[steve]

One of two 1985 western spoofs. The other was Lust in the Dust (1984).

[marc]

The outfit that Peter (G.W. Bailey) wears is an homage to Smiley Burnette, who was the "sidekick" for Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and Charles Starrett in most of the western movies made in the 1940s and 1950s. He always wore a checkered shirt and a black hat with the brim turned up in front. He also rode a white horse with a black ring around one eye.

[terry]

Film critic Leonard Maltin called the movie a "send-up of matinee Westerns".

[gerald]

The name of Colonel Ticonderoga's (Andy Griffith's) ranch, where he threw the party, was "Rancho Ticonderoga".

[lena]

Marilu Henner in 1986 was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress for this movie and Perfect (1985), but lost out to Brigitte Nielsen for Rocky IV (1985).

[russell]

The nickname of Rex O'Herlihan was the "Singing Cowboy".

[charlie]

Like many spaghetti westerns, the movie was filmed in Europe, not Italy, but Spain, specifically at Tabernas, Almeria, in Andalucía, Spain.

[lena]

Hugh Wilson got the idea for this film while working on the series he created, WKRP in Cincinnati (1978). That show was shot on the CBS lot in Studio City, California. Before CBS bought it, it belonged to Republic Pictures, the studio that produced hundreds of low-budget westerns, exactly like the kind being spoofed in this film.

[bernice]

Final film of actor John Orchard.

[michele]

This was the first movie that Hugh Wilson directed after the box-office hit Police Academy (1984). A few crew from that cop comedy worked on this western parody as well as Brant von Hoffman (Jim) and G.W. Bailey (Peter).

[violet]

The edited-for-television release of the movie contains a scene deleted from the theatrical release. It features an exchange between Rex (Tom Berenger) (with Peter (G.W. Bailey) in tow) and Colonel Ticonderoga (Andy Griffith) in the middle of the forest just before the big shoot-out. The Colonel explains that he'll have twenty men gunning for Rex, to which Rex replies, "One hand, twenty hands, it's all the same to me." (Note that in the shoot-out, Rex claims there are too many men for him to handle because "usually forty percent chicken out." Twenty men, minus forty percent, would have left twelve men, which would've been exactly enough for Rex's two fully-loaded six-guns to take out).

[chad]

This movie features a window-boxed black-and-white opening sequence, which was a re-creation of an old western. It then segues into color with the narrator saying, "I wonder what one of these movies would look like today?"

[bernice]

The name of Rex O'Herlihan's (Tom Berenger's) dancing white Palomino "wonderhorse", was "Wildfire".

[melinda]

In the swimming scene, this is a parity of the cliff jump from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid.

[morris]

The name of the small western town was "Oakwood Estates".

[jessica]

One of two 1985 western spoofs. The other was Lust in the Dust (1984). Three Amigos! (1986) followed in 1986.

[toni]

According to the Video & DVD Guide, the film is a "spoof of the singing cowboy movies of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s."

[aaron]

Writer and Director Hugh Wilson was inspired to write this movie while working at the CBS Studio Center, which used to be the backlot of the former Republic Pictures, where many westerns were made.