Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Reluctant astronaut. Shakiest gun in the west. Love god?
Notes:
Title from container. Four films starring popular funnyman Don Knotts in one set. Starring Don Knotts with: Joan Staley (The ghost and Mr. Chicken) ; Leslie Nielsen, Joan Freeman, Jesse White, Arthur O'Connell (The reluctant astronaut) ; Barbara Rhoades (The shakiest gun in the west) ; Anne Francis, Edmond O'Brien, James Gregory, Maureen Arthur (The love god?).
Contents:
(101 min.) The love god? (1966) / directed by Nat Hiken ; screenplay by Nat Hiken (90 min.) ; The reluctant astronaut (1967) / directed by Edward Montagne; screenplay by James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum (101 min.) -- Side B. The shakiest gun in the west (1968) / directed by Alan Rafkin ; screenplay by Edmund L. Hartmann, Fank Tashlin, James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum (101 min.) ; The love god? (1969) / directed by Nat Hiken ; screenplay by Nat Hiken (101 min.)
Summary:
The ghost and Mr. Chicken: Knotts plays a small town typesetter with dreams of becoming a reporter who agrees to spend a night in an allegedly haunted house. The reluctant astronaut: Knotts plays a small-town amusement park ride operator with a fear of heights who gets a job with NASA--as a janitor. He gets to confront his fear of heights when NASA devises a program to send a civilian into space. The shakiest gun in the west: Knotts plays a dental school graduate out to bring oral hygiene to the west, who, with the help of a woman gunslinger tracking gunsmugglers who happened to marry him, becomes known as a feared gunslinger himself. The love god?: Knotts plays the editor of a bird-watcher's magazine bought out by a group which turns it into a "girlie-magazine" and keeps him on as the editor, with a new life-style to match.
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