Cockeyed Cowboys at Calico County is those pictures that on first sight you doesn't give nothing to it, first the casting is staffed by almost retirees actors, second low budge and comic oriented, Charley (Dan Blocker) is a friendly and quiet blacksmith, he has a secret plan to get a wife thru mail order bride, he conceals it from the whole town, however when his bride is about to come at Railway station, everybody are there and knew all previously, but she doesn't show up, depressed he decides leaves the town, the people for many reasons try help him, a singer-dancing girl (Nanette Fabray) who works at saloon's town should be a perfect bride to Charley, she accepts as a long await revenge, somehow Charley gained his heart thru this loving kindness, good heart and mainly by pureness of feelings, this picture has a chemistry with Charley and the audience, further the whole casting improves a lot on their own characters, everyone are involved to help Charley to be happy, Jack Elam is outrageous funny as blind bounty hunter, a movie to see and to revisit in a proper time!!

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First watch: 2014 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD-R / Rating: 7.5

When charley's mail order bride doesn't show up, he threatens to leave town. But he's the only blacksmith in calico! So the townsfolk band together to come up with a plan to make charley change his mind. But of course, this scheme will backfire somehow. (they all do!) some funny lines in here, for a simple western. And the hat budget must have been sky high... i've never seen so many top-hats and derbies on the menfolk. Familiar faces in the cast list... nanette fabray, jack cassidy, jim backus, wally cox. Sub plot with a nearly blind bounty hunter. It's good. Nothing too earthshaking or new. Directed by tony leader; written and co-directed by ranald macdougall. He was married to fabray, but died at age 58, a couple years after making this film. Blocker himself died at 43, just two years after this film. Was probably best known for his role on bonanza. Jack cassidy died at 49. Wally cox at 48.

This movie hounded me for YEARS. We saw this on a double-bill with PUFINSTUF, and all I could remember was it being a family-friendly western with a saloon gal as part of the plot. Thanks to the online Chicago Tribune archives I found the listing and solved the mystery. Someone had posted the movie to YouTube and this is definitely the movie I had remembered. Good performances by a veteran cast (the opening credits panning through a turn of the century catalog were pretty creative), this is an ideal movie you can enjoy with the family, hopefully Universal will finally make this available on DVD or BluRay.