The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)

THE CHEYENNE SOCIAL CLUB  (1970)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Gene Kelly
    James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones,
    Sue Anne Langdon, Elaine Devry, Jackie Russell,
    Jackie Joseph, Sharon De Bord, Robert Middleton,
    Dabbs Greer, John Dehner, J. Pat O'Malley
Two old Texas cowboys saddle up and ride north to Wyoming, where one of them has inherited some property. It's not till they get to Wyoming that they learn what the property is: the most widely revered brothel in the territory. Overcome by an acute case of respectability, the new owner (Jimmy Stewart) decides to close the place down and open a boarding house, a plan the establishment's working girls and their devoted clientele fail to appreciate, and his partner (Henry Fonda) doesn't understand too well, either. A broadly played western, worth watching mostly  as a vehicle for its two stars, who were best friends in real life, and play off each other with a good-natured, bickering ease that can only come from years of riding the range together. They even spoof their respective political affiliations, a subject they avoided discussing offscreen. If nothing else, it's almost certainly the only movie you'll ever see whose plot summary could justify using the words "Jimmy Stewart" and "owner of a whorehouse" in the same sentence.