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Singing Cowboy | Showdown
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The outfit that Peter (G.W. Bailey) wears is an homage to Smiley Burnette, who was the "sidekick" for Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and Charles Starrett in most of the western movies made in the 1940s and 1950s. He always wore a checkered shirt and a black hat with the brim turned up in front. He also rode a white horse with a black ring around one eye.
Like many spaghetti westerns, the movie was filmed in Europe, but not Italy but Spain, specifically at Tabernas, Almeria in Andalucía, Spain.
This movie features a window-boxed black-and-white opening sequence, which was a re-creation of an old western. It then segues into color with the narrator saying: "I wonder what one of these movies would look like today?".
Hugh Wilson got the idea for this film while working on the series he created, WKRP in Cincinnati (1978). That show was shot on the CBS lot in Studio City, California. Before CBS bought it, it belonged to Republic Pictures, the studio that produced hundreds of low-budget westerns, exactly like the kind being spoofed in this film. Both Republic's library and its former lot became properties of ViacomCBS upon its 2019 formation, with the former being part of the library of Paramount, the distributor of "Rustler's Rhapsody". ViacomCBS has since announced it will sell CBS Studio Center to Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital Management.
The underground plant root vegetables that the characters eat were raw uncooked sweet potatoes which were both white and saccharine.
"Rex O'Herlihan: You're not a good guy at all! Bob Barber: I'm a lawyer, you idiot!"
"Rex O'Herlihan: [Music score begins to play. Rex speaks to his horse] Root's beginnin' to work. [a cowboy chorus joins in] Rex O'Herlihan: Yeah, it's definitely kickin' in now."
