Sam whiskey

Movie
German title	Sam whiskey
Original title	Sam whiskey
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1969
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Arnold Laven
script	William W. Norton
production	Arthur Gardner Arnold Laven Jules V. Levy
music	Herschel Burke Gilbert
camera	Robert C. Moreno
cut	John Woodcock
occupation
Burt Reynolds : Sam Whiskey Clint Walker : OW Bandy Ossie Davis : Jedidiah Hooker Angie Dickinson : Laura Breckinridge William Schallert : Mr. Perkins (Mint Superintendent) Rick Davis : Henry Hobson Woodrow Parfrey : Thornton Bromley Anthony James : cousin Leroy Del Reeves : Fisherman John Damler : Hank (night watchman) Robert Adler : Pete (night watchman) Chubby Johnson : Blacksmith Ayllene Gibbons : Big Annie Wallace Earl : Mrs. Perkins

Sam Whiskey is an American western comedy directed by Arnold Laven for Levy-Gardner-Laven production company and starring Burt Reynolds , Clint Walker and Ossie Davis .

action

Sam Whiskey is a smart guy, grew up in the back rooms of saloons and has a hand in hand, an all-round talent for every delicate job. One day the governor's widow Laura Breckinridge makes the rascal a spicy but tempting offer: For a fee of 20,000 dollars, Sam is supposed to recover gold bars worth a quarter of a million dollars stolen from a sunken river boat. But Sam Whiskey hesitates. He is supposed to rescue those gold bars from a sunken ship and bring them secretly back to the mint that Laura's dead husband had recently stolen ...? Time is of the essence because the gold has to be brought back before the theft is noticed on site. A hair-raising as well as ludicrous undertaking takes its course.

Reviews

“Rififi operates in the Wild West: three adventurers first have to recover stolen gold bars from the bottom of a river and then smuggle them back into the vault of a mint. An adventure story peppered with entertaining incidents in a careful, fast-paced and humorous staging. "

- Lexicon of international film

“A funny reversal of the Rififi recipe. The funniest part of the film isn't smuggling the gold into the coin, but rather salvaging it from the river, where the do-it-yourself know-how of the three adventurers is at its wildest. "

- Joe Hembus Western Lexicon

“The story [...] wants to poke fun at the serious Wild West film. In and of itself this is quite enjoyable fun, but it should be reserved for adults because of some scenes in which the inclusion of the killing of people in the cheerful representation is problematic. "

- Protestant film observer

Production notes

The buildings are by Loyd S. Papez, the set designer was Charles S. Thompson, Dan Greenway and Frank Griffin were responsible as makeup artists. The filming locations were the Warner Brothers Burbank Studios in Burbank , California in the USA .

literature

• Sam Whiskey in: Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film , by Lee Clark Mitchell - 1998, University of Chicago Press, 1998, p. Xii

Web links

• Sam Whiskey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sam Whiskey in: cinema.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sam Whiskey. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Joe Hembus: The Western Lexicon - 1567 films from 1894 to today. Wilhelm Heyne Publishing House. Munich. 3rd edition 1995. ISBN 3-453-08121-8 . Pp. 540-451
3. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 308/1969