Sam Whiskey (1969)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Arnold Laven

Writer:

William W. Norton (written by)

Release Date:

1 April 1969 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Western

Tagline:

Don't mix with "Sam Whiskey" - It's risky!

Plot:

Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars...

Plot Keywords:

Mint | Widow | Gold Bar | Sunken Ship | Checkers

Cast

Burt Reynolds	...	Sam Whiskey
Clint Walker	...	O. W. Bandy
Ossie Davis	...	Jed Hooker
William Schallert	...	Mr. Perkins (mint superintendent)
Woodrow Parfrey	...	Thorston Bromley (Treasury inspector)
Rick Davis	...	The Fat Man
Anthony James	...	Cousin Leroy
Del Reeves	...	The Fisherman
John Damler	...	Hank (night guard at Mint)
Robert Adler	...	Pete (night guard at Mint) (as Bob Adler)
Chubby Johnson	...	Blacksmith
Ayllene Gibbons	...	Big Annie
Sidney Clute
Wallace Earl	...	Mrs. Perkins (as Amanda Harley)
William Boyett

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual content and some violence. (2005 re-rating)

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | Norway:12 | Finland:S | Sweden:11 | USA:M (original rating) | USA:PG-13 (re-rating) (2005) | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Silver Springs, Florida, USA

Company:

Brighton Pictures

Quotes:

Narrator: General Sherman said, "War is hell." "Worse than that," Sam said, "The pay's bad."

Soundtrack:

Mary McCarty

Agreeable though middling western about a heist in a mint

Sam Whiskey(Burt Reynolds) is an rogue adventurer, then he's hired by a gorgeous widow(Angie Dickinson).He must retrieve a treasure recently stolen by her deceased husband from a sunken ship. Sam teams up an African-American blacksmith(Ossie Davis) and a tall inventor(Clint Walker) who designs a diving helmet. But they are followed by a fat man and hoodlums(Anthony James). Later they ought manage to get hundred pounds of gold bars and put it into a mint house ruled by a stiff superintendent(William Schallert)with anyone aware.

This entertaining movie displays action western, fist-play,bemusing caper, shootouts and lively humor. Friendly performance by Burt Reynolds and enticing Angie Dickinson who does a brief nudist exhibition.Good secondary cast, as the veteran William Schallert as mint superintendent, Chubby Johnson habitual support cast in numerous Western and Anthony James , usual baddie of the 70s. Atmospheric musical score and colorful cinematography, however the film is made in television style. Director Arnold Laven created his proper production company along with Arthur Gardner and Jules V Levy in the 50s, at the decade since, they had produced dozens of additional TV Western including ¨Rifleman, Big Valley, Law of the Plainsmen, Zane Grey theater and Gunsmoke¨ and Laven directed several Western movies such as ¨Geronimo, Rought night in Jericho,The glory guys and Sam Whiskey¨ among others. Rating : Average but amusing.