This is one of my all time favorites. I was about 12 years old when I watched this on AMC with my father for the first time. He had seen it many times and sort had to force this child of the 80s to watch a black and white film with her dad. I was not only hooked from then on to black and white films, but also to Jimmy Stewart and Marlena Dietrich... and soon thereafter, Frank Capra.

Jimmy and Marlena are superb together in this film. It's bpt surprising that they had a bit of an affair; there is a lot of chemistry there. All pf the acting in the film was done well however.

Should you want to end an evening with a smile, watch Death Rides Again. I'm forever grateful to my father for insisting I share that time with him, watching this film. I ended up naming our family Golden Retriever "Destry." Best dog ever. =) Have my own kids hooked now.

Terrific movie! James Stewart at his best, as is Marlene Dietrich. There's plenty of humor splashed throughout the drama, and the storyline keeps your attention. A big winner in my book.

I liked this movie although I thought it seemed a little unrealistic. Jimmy Stewart was a great actor and I like him in most all his roles but in several scenes of this movie I had a hard time believing his rough and tough character when facing men much larger, he was tall but in this movie it seemed a stiff wind could knock him off balance. The shooting display he performed he was swinging that gun all over the place and hit the mark perfect, which was also sort of hard to buy. Anyway though the plot is clever and the story-line well executed by the actors. I give the movie four stars since I enjoyed it and have watched it multiple times.

This is Marlene Dietrich's movie. It co-stars James Stewart and is buoyed nicely by a host of great character actors. But Ms. Dietrich's personality dominates every scene she's in. Especially her rendition of the song "See What The Boys In The Backroom Will Have". It's a classic (re: standard) Western-themed script with the good-hearted, peace-minded law man battling the corrupt, unscrupulous business man but it still manages to be an enjoyable, entertaining way to pass a couple of hours due to the fine acting ensemble. Yet another gem from Hollywood's magical year of 1939. The DVD was delivered ahead of its promised scheduled arrival date and in great condition. A happy experience all around.

This comic western features a brilliant performance from James Stewart as Destry, a marshall who doesn't believe in guns, but is a crackpot shot. Destry is on a mission to clean up the corrupt town of Bottleneck run by Brian Donlevy, with the help of a saloon entertainer named Frenchie (Marlene Dietrich). Directed by the almost forgotten George Marshall, the film is paced perfectly and features wonderful support from Una Merkel, Allen Jenkins, Jack Carson, and Mischa Auer. A good double feature with the very serious Stagecoach.

.....Then you will love this movie. Stewart plays the part of Tom Destry JR son of the legendary lawman who cleaned up Tombstone. Trouble is that Stewart doesn't like to carry a gun which makes him the laughing stock of the residents of the wide open town of Bottleneck and its lawless residents. Dietrich plays the part of Frenchy, her usual saloon girl floozie but Stewart in his disarming shucks ma'am manner manages to tap into a soft spot in her hard heart and she falls for him. After winning Frenchys heart Stewart manages to clean up the town and only has to slap leather once to take out the bad guy played by Brian Dunlevy who shoots Frenchy in the back as she throws herself in front of Stewart to save his life ...As Frenchy slips away she asks Stewart for a good-by kiss ....This is a great movie for buffs who like comedy mixed with pathos in the old West ...both Stewart and Dietrich are superb in a thoroughly enjoyable movie.

Before I watched this highly-amusing comedy, with "dramatic" touches, it had always seemed so strange (to me), the coupling of reliable & naive Jimmy Stewart with the exotic, alluring and sophisticated Marlene Dietrich...and above all, in a western!!

It's true that she (Dietrich) had starred previously with equally naive and all-american Gary Cooper in both in "Morocco" and "Desire", but the former was a Pre-Code set in Von Sternberg's "exotic" vision of the world (the desert in this case) and the latter wasn't "outside" Diretrich "bounds" either (as a myth), because it was a sophisticated continental romance, produced by Lubistch.

But boy!, in this film Marlene is so different from her previous roles an highly convincing as a notorious saloon singer, "Frenchy" (she's from New Orleans, Louisiana), who's the mistress of the town's villain (Brian Donlevy, great).

After Bottleneck's sheriff (the name of the town) is killed, in rather "obscure" circumstances, Donlevy arranges that the town's drunk (engagingly played by Charles Winninger) is given the job, `cos it's for sure that he wouldn't cause any trouble at all...

But, he's wrong, as everybody else, because Winninger calls for Tom Destry to become his deputy-sheriff, whose heroic father he knew when he was young, ....but, wait a minute!!... this mild-mannered guy (Stewart) cannot be "notorious" Destry's son...but not all is said, `cos this peculiar guy is a no-nonsense man!

Great support too from Mischa Auer, as Winininger's hilarious Russian brother-in-law, so desperately trying to be addressed by his own last name (Androvsky? or sth. like that), and not as "Callahan", his wife's (Una Merkel) very respectable, late first husband.

Mention apart deserves one of the best women-fight I ever saw onscreen, between Merkel and Dietrich.

The only thing that displeased me was one "aspect" of the ending, which I'm sure must have been imposed by the strict Production Code regulations (you'll know what I'm talking about after watching the movie yourselves), but in all, it's a great film!

The DVD copy is OK, considering the film's from 1939.