The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County is a 1970 American comedy Western film by Universal Studios, directed by Anton Leader and Ranald MacDougall, and starring Dan Blocker and Nanette Fabray, with a supporting cast featuring: Jim Backus, Mickey Rooney, Wally Cox, Jack Elam, Noah Beery, Jr., Jack Cassidy and Don "Red" Barry.
In late 2010, the Encore Westerns channel began showing this film intermittently on their schedule.
[2] Shy naive Charley Bicker, the only blacksmith within 100 miles (161 km), begins corresponding with a potential mail-order bride, named Ellen, and sends her all his savings for a train ticket to the town of Calico.
They will need to find someone to pretend to be the lady Charley was corresponding with, who will agree to be courted for a few days, and then politely say she changed her mind about marriage.
Mrs. Bester tells her she and all the other ladies knows who she really is, but they want her to marry Charley, so their husbands won’t be going to the saloon to see her sing and dance.
Roger Hand goes to visit Sadie at the saloon, and when he learns she is being courted by Charley he vows to get revenge on the blacksmith.
Sadie returns to the saloon and, while wearing a revealing costume, begins singing a song about not caring.