Agatha Knabenshu arrives in a small town in Missouri to sell player pianos to the locals. She's fired after her disastrous sales attempts nearly destroy the town. The stranded saleslady becomes friendly with an equally bumbling inventor and moves in with his family. The two then try to sell his automatic milking machine, but things turn sour when their demonstration causes a stampede.
Acting
Diller's wild-eyed physical comedy owns every frame.
Practical Effects
Real cows, real stampede, real beautiful disaster.
Director
Don Weis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bob Denver filmed this between seasons of Gilligan's Island, still wearing his signature goofy energy. The milking machine was a real prototype that terrified actual cows.
This bombed so hard it became nearly lost media—only recently resurfaced. A relic of when studios thought 'lady salesman' was itself the punchline.
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