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Overview

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Director:
Alan Rafkin
Writers:
James Fritzell (writer)
Everett Greenbaum (writer)
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Release Date:
20 January 1966 (USA) more
Tagline:
G-G-GUARANTEED! YOU'LL BE SCARED UNTIL YOU LAUGH YOURSELF SILLY! (original theatrical poster - all caps) more
Plot:
Luther Heggs aspires to being a reporter for his small town newspaper, the Rachel Courier Express. He... more | add synopsis
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(3 articles)
Actor Don Knotts Dies at 81
 (From WENN. 27 February 2006)

Don Knotts: 1924-2006
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And they used Bon Ami! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Don Knotts ... Luther Heggs
Joan Staley ... Alma Parker
Liam Redmond ... Kelsey
Dick Sargent ... George Beckett
Skip Homeier ... Ollie Weaver
Reta Shaw ... Mrs. Halcyon Maxwell
Lurene Tuttle ... Mrs. Natalie Miller
Philip Ober ... Nicholas Simmons (as Phil Ober)
Harry Hickox ... Police Chief Art Fuller

Charles Lane ... Whitlow
Jesslyn Fax ... Mrs. Hutchinson
Nydia Westman ... Mrs. Cobb
George Chandler ... Judge Harley Nast
Robert Cornthwaite ... Springer
Jim Begg ... Herkie (as James Begg)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (Certificate #21086) | UK:Uc | USA:G

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Trivia:
One of the few American films shot in the Technicolor Corporation's Techniscope wide screen process. The wide screen effect was achieved by essentially splitting the usual film frame horizontally into two smaller frames with a greater width to height ratio. It was inexpensive, but yielded a grainy image, which probably explains why it was seldom used in Hollywood. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The sandwich that "jell-o" man is finishing in the diner switches hands just as Luther tells Alma of the dead whale that washed up on the beach in San Francisco. more
Quotes:
Whitlow: I'm asking you a question, Heggs! Can't you curb your imagination for one minute?
Luther Heggs: Can't you curb your tongue for a minute?
Man in audience: Atta boy, Luther!
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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
And they used Bon Ami!, 3 August 2002
Author: Ajtlawyer from Richland, WA

This was Don Knotts' first movie vehicle after he left "Andy Griffith". His character, Luther Heggs, is simply Barney Fife transplanted from Mayberry, North Carolina to Laurel, Kansas. The same gentle but slightly quirky small town residents and Heggs/Fife bumbling along and solving one of the town's mysteries. Knotts even wears the same salt and pepper suit with white fedora that he wore on "Andy Griffith".

This is still a fun movie to watch though. Knotts does his "nervous man" schtick all the way through. His stage-fright speech at the town picnic is great ("let me clarify this")and there are two recurring joke lines, "and they used Bon Ami!" and "atta boy, Luther" which keep being said and which will crack you up every time.

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