oscaralbert Review of The Sheepman

The Sheepman (1958)

As Mark Twain famously described Scotch cuisine . . .

[6/10 · 29 March 2021]

. . . "Mutton is a mealtime spoiled." THE SHEEPMAN is likely to put many if not most viewers to sleep as they count the slaughtered title characters (sheep AND men). What seems to begin as a pilot for a doomed television situation comedy (complete with the banal musical cues) ends up with four murders (of men) but no wedding (shotgun or otherwise). This fiasco may have worked as a James Garner and Doris Day vehicle, but it falls flatter than a flapjack with its B-movie casting. War historians report that the main reason Koreans tortured American P. O. W.'s with fish head soup was that sheep were too hard to come by. When U. S. hill folks are attending a potluck in the hollow and are offered second helpings on lamb chops, their inevitable reply is "No thank you; please pass the skunk strips."