Rance McGrew is the star of a cowboy show on TV.\u00a0 He makes the rest of the crew and cast miserable with his pettiness and his overbearing and selfish behavior.\u00a0 During one particular scene of the production, the actor playing Jesse James is supposed to attempt to shoot McGrew in the back.\u00a0 The actor objects saying that the real Jesse James would never have stooped to a cowardly act like shooting a man in the back.\u00a0 McGrew flies into a rage and belittles Jesse James compared to himself.<\/p>\n
Suddenly the saloon that McGrew is standing in becomes a real Old Western saloon and McGrew shouts out that the whiskey he was drinking really is whiskey instead of ginger ale.\u00a0 \u00a0A man runs into the saloon and tells McGrew that Jesse James is coming into town.\u00a0 Rance thinks that it\u2019s the scene they\u2019ve been practicing. \u00a0But when Jesse James shows up, he is a large powerful and intimidating man and he isn\u2019t acting.\u00a0 He tells Rance that in the afterlife the outlaws that McGrew is regularly running down and representing as cowards are very unhappy with him and have sent Jesse James to teach him a lesson.<\/p>\n
Now Jesse drags McGrew out onto the street and tells him they are going to have a shoot out.\u00a0 Rance hides but eventually he is cornered and when Jesse outdraws him McGrew begs the outlaw to spare him.\u00a0 Jesse says he\u2019ll do it on the condition that Rance will change his ways and respect the honor of the Old West legends he\u2019s been besmirching.\u00a0 When he agrees, he suddenly finds himself back on the television production set and preparing for the Jesse James scene.\u00a0 But just before it\u2019s shot an extra comes in and tells Rance that his agent is outside and needs to talk to him.\u00a0 Of course, it\u2019s Jesse James dressed as a Hollywood agent.\u00a0 He tells Rance that instead of shooting Jesse, the outlaw will escape by throwing Rance through the saloon window and instead of a stunt double it will be McGrew himself.\u00a0 And reluctantly Rance accepts the inevitable and comes flying through the window.\u00a0 And Jesse and Rance go driving off in his Cadillac convertible into a sunset of historical western accuracy.\u00a0 We\u2019re left assuming this is the beginning of a beautiful but painful friendship for Rance.<\/p>\n
Well, not too bad.\u00a0 B-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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