Phil Silvers teamed again with writer-producer Nat Hiken, the creator of You'll Never Get Rich, aka The Phil Silvers Show, aka Sgt. Bilko, for a primetime CBS special that skewered the Western genre. Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam, Jack Albertson, Marion Ross, Bruce Cabot, and Jack Benny join Silvers in "The Slowest Gun in The West".
The epic "showdown" between Benny & Silvers gets the most laughs, of course, but we've seen better gags in Looney Tunes. I'm not sure about this, but I think Silvers was working with Revue for the first time with this one. Revue, of course, was home to Benny's CBS series.
Rating: B-.
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