The Cheyenne Social Club

When John and Harley are crossing the railroad tracks to see the Cheyenne Social Club for the first time, it is apparent from the camera angle that the last structure on the right is only a facade with no building behind it.

There are no mountains in the immediate vicinity of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

In the last scene, when John receives a letter while working a cattle roundup, the letter is sealed when it's handed to him, but when he takes off his work glove to take the letter out of the envelope and read it, the flap is unsealed, as if it never had been sealed at all.

As John and Harley sit at the table waiting for their steaks after the gunfight, John pours Harley then himself a whiskey, the color of the which is pale.

When John talks to the Marshal moments later, he holds up his glass, and the whiskey is a shade darker.

In the next shot of John and Harley, John's whiskey is back to its original color.

During the Bannister gang shootout, a long shot shows three of the gang shooting while previous close shots had reduced the gang to two members.

As John and Harley walk through town talking, shadows of the camera and crew are visible.

I wish to add this slice of information on actor Jimmy Steward because of several reasons - a/ since some critics allude to the fact that there was not enough manhood in him to be film hero, he rather looked like a University associate or even Nobel laureate with his intelligent face b/ because Western cinema is synonymous with American cinema which is not perceived well by some activists in Europe that still hang to their national film industry and, also for some other reasons ... Now filmography entries for James Steward are quite substantial and given elsewhere, we can't make easy choices about his almost 100 feature films and long life-span of 90 years (plus-minus the professional attrition).

This is a cheap copy of "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) & "The Wild Bunch" (1969). The former is directed by John Sturges & the latter by Sam Peckinpah.

Is "The Cheyenne Social Club" a comedy or action Western? Director Gene Kelly tries to combine the two with very uneven results.

Seeing this film, I am not a big fan of it. It is boring with not a lot of action, the humor is focuses on is not funny, and the story is bland.

Next to "El Dorado", this is my favorite western. It is fun from start to finish.

Two of hollywood's greatest, Stewart & Fonda, team up to produce a Western spoof about Stewart's character inheriting a whorehouse in Cheyenne, WY. Humor abounds as these two Texas cowboy friends go full circle from earthy cowhands to whorehouse owners and back...

This is a great comedy western without being stupid satire and is nothing like Blazing Saddles by Mel Brooks. I personally hate satire on a high level.

Cowboy James Stewart gets a letter that's followed him through many jobs for almost two years. It seems as though his prosperous brother from Cheyenne died and left him a going business, something called The Cheyenne Social Club.

One feature of "The Cheyanne Social Club"; it marks the 3rd (count'em third) time that James Stewart "killed" career bad guy Robert J. Wilke on screen He had already gunned him down in "The Far Country", and in "Night Passage".