Tom Destry (James Stewart), 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, ...

Because it sublimely teamed Marlene Dietrich as worldly dancehall queen Frenchy and James Stewart as pacifist deputy Thomas Jefferson Destry, it is godparent to both Dietrich's crazy Western vehicle ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Learn about Destry Rides Again - Harold Rome's musical 'Destry Rides Again' opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on April 23 1959 and ran for a respectable 493 performances. Based on the classic ...

And Dietrich was never more exuberantly showcased than in the supremely enjoyable 1939 western “Destry Rides Again.” Until the other day I’d seen excerpts, and its most famous musical number, “The ...

Released in 1939 - widely agreed upon as the keystone year of the Golden Age Hollywood studio system - Destry Rides Again is an odd nexus point, not only of genres, but of the careers of its stars. As ...