The Old West town of Calendar in the Colorado Territory springs up almost overnight when clumsy, hotheaded Prudy Perkins (Hackett) notices gold in a freshly dug grave during a funeral. Her father, bumbling farmer Olly (Morgan), becomes the first mayor of the new settlement, but soon he and the other elected councilmen (Henry Jones and Walter Burke) find themselves and the townspeople at the mercy of the corrupt Danby family, who force the prospectors to pay them a toll for using the only road in or out of Calendar. The town has no sheriff, as all the men are busy searching for gold, and the few who have taken the job have been run out of town or killed.
MPAA Rating: | G |
Genre: | Comedy, Western, Romance |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | William Bowers, James Garner, Bill Finnegan |
Directed By: | Burt Kennedy |
Written By: | William Bowers |
Cast: | John Daheim, Jack Tornek, Dick Peabody, James Garner, Chubby Johnson, Gayle Rogers, Tom Reese, Robert Anderson, Jack Elam, Robert Robinson, John Milford, Phil Schumacher, Gene Evans, Bruce Dern, Richard Alden, Joan Hackett, Joe Phillips, Harry Morgan, Willis Bouchey, William Tannen, Walter Brennan, Dick Haynes, Marilyn Jones, Danny Borzage, Bill Borzage, Roydon Clark, Duke Fishman, Paul Sorensen, Walter Burke, Bill Catching, Henry Jones, Kathleen Freeman, Gene Coogan, Boyd 'Red' Morgan |
In Theaters: | Mar 26, 1969 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 32 minutes |
Production: | Cherokee Productions, Three Pictures |
Budget: | $750,000 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |