A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.
Acting
Knotts and Conway's silent-movie chemistry—pure physical comedy gold.
Practical Effects
Real nitroglycerin gags shot before CGI made cowards of us all.
Production
Disney's last live-action Western before the genre went properly extinct.
Director
Norman Tokar
Don Knotts
Theodore Ogelvie
Tim Conway
Amos Tucker
Harry Morgan
Homer McCoy
Bill Bixby
Russel Donavan
Susan Clark
Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale
David Wayne
T.R. Clydesdale
Slim Pickens
Frank Stillwell
John McGiver
Leonard Sharpe
Don Knight
John Wintle
Clay O'Brien
Bobby Bradley
Brad Savage
Clovis Bradley
Dennis Fimple
Rudy Hooks
Iris Adrian
Poker Polly
Fran Ryan
Mrs. Stockley
Bing Russell
Herm Dally
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Knotts and Conway improvised so much that the script supervisor allegedly just wrote 'COMEDY HAPPENS.' They reunited for five more films because apparently America demanded more pratfalls.
This was Disney's desperate 1975 attempt to revive family Westerns after 'True Grit' made them briefly serious again. It worked—barely—then the genre died until 'Tombstone' resurrected it as irony.
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