Hollywood Briefly

In a scene from the 1980's film, The Long Riders, Vernon Biggs (portrayed by actor: Chris Mullet) is stripped down to his union suit by notorious highway men: Jesse and Frank James, Cole, Jim and Bob Younger, and Ed and Clell Miller. Upon being held up, Vernon lied about his civil war heroics. The gang decided to “strip him of everything he has.” A fellow passenger and true civil war veteran is offended by Vernon's deception and only too happy to help the boys remove the fabricator's clothes. 

When the robbers leave, Vernon is left standing there in his long underwear while his wife and other stagecoach patrons look on. 

Apparently his boots weren't worth taking and his britches, pulled down and left around this ankles, were to difficult to remove over the footwear. 

The great thing about this movie is that the band of outlaws were played by actors who in real life were brothers. The James were played by Stacy and James Keach. The Younger boys were played by Keith, David, and Robert Carradine. The Millers were played by Dennis and Randy Quaid. In addition, Charley and Robert Ford were played by brothers, Christopher and Nicholas Guest.

The gang terrorized states in the midwest just after the Civil War robbing banks, trains, and stagecoaches and, presumably, victims of their clothes. The movie was shown at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. Ry Cooder won Best Music Award presented by the prestigious Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for his original music.

Do yourself a favor, download and enjoy this very entertaining United Artists film.

Actor Chris Mullet also appeared in his underwear during most of the 1988 FilmDallas Pictures movie with the peculiar title of Patti Rocks. He played Billy Regis in this blue comedy and spent most of the movie running around Minnesota not in a union suit but, rather, boxer shorts.

And that's the long and short of it.