The town of Cheyenne doesn't mind the brothel at all, and John is at first greeted as a prominent figure as the new owner.
Please notify me if you encounter a stale link. Once there, he finds the Cheyenne Social Club to be a brothel, run by the attractive Madame Jenny (Shirley Jones). COMEDY. Cast. The Cheyenne Social Club is an innocuous and likeable western starring James Stewart and Henry Fonda. John is appalled, and while Harley is sampling the business's wares, John is planning to close the place down and turn it into a boardinghouse. Film lists and highlights from BFI Player. The Cheyenne Social Club is a 1970 comedy Western directed by Gene Kelly—yes, that Gene Kelly, the song-and-dance man. Thinking that he can finally settle down from his hard life on the trail and become a man of property, he travels with his friend Harley O'Sullivan (Henry Fonda) to Cheyenne to claim his property. John O'Hanlan . In 1870 Texas, John O' Hanlan (James Stewart), an itinerant cowboy, receives a letter notifying him that he has inherited a business establishment called the Cheyenne Social Club in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
9733. The idea of the movie is that Stewart and Fonda are two itinerant ranchers (i.e. Future learning and skills – giving everyone the opportunity to build a lifelong relationship with film. Reviews, interviews and features from the international film magazine. But when the citizens of Cheyenne get wind of John's plan, they try to convince him to keep the whorehouse the way it is. No singing and dancing in this one, but instead James Stewart and Henry Fonda as John O'Hanlan and Harley Sullivan, two grizzled old cowboys. Movies.com, the ultimate source for everything movies, is your destination for new movie trailers, reviews, photos, times, tickets + more! John O'Hanlon, a cowboy, inherits the Cheyenne Social Club. He is horrified however, to discover that the club is not a boarding house, but an exclusive brothel. Feedback about The Saturday Film: The Cheyenne Social Club, BBC One London, 21.20, 20 September 1980. COMEDY. So John and Harley hurry back to Texas to avoid that potential bloodbath. Shirley Jones. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi. However, things get more serious when John shoots hoodlum Corey Bannister for roughing up Jenny, and Bannister's murderous family comes looking for revenge. When John tries to shut the Social Club down, he's immediately shunned by the townsfolk and gets caught in a.
losers) working in Texas, but then Stewart learns that he’s inherited property in Wyoming. Henry Fonda Original title: The Cheyenne Social Club. They are busy roping steers in Texas when John gets a letter from Cheyenne, Wyoming, revealing that his long-lost ne'er-do-well brother DJ has left him a business as an inheritance. However, all of this talk is tabled when John finds out that Jenny has been beaten by the disreputable Corey Bannister (Robert J. Wilke).