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Don Knotts

Don Knotts reluctant hero pack. [videorecording] : - Universal City, Calif. : Universal, c2004. - 1 videodisc (397 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. - Franchise collection .

Title from container. Four films starring popular funnyman Don Knotts in one set.

The ghost and Mr. Chicken The reluctant astronaut The shakiest gun in the west The love god? directed by Alan Rafkin ; screenplay by James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum directed by Edward Montagne; screenplay by James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum directed by Alan Rafkin ; screenplay by Edmund L. Hartmann, Fank Tashlin, James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum directed by Nat Hiken ; screenplay by Nat Hiken Side A. (1966) / (90 min.) ; (1967) / (101 min.) -- Side B. (1968) / (101 min.) ; (1969) / (101 min.)

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?).

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.

MPAA rating: PG-13.


DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; 2.0 mono.


English dialogue, Spanish or French subtitles.

078328697X

025192422423

24224 Universal


Ghosts--Drama.
Astronauts--Drama.
Dentists--Drama.
Frontier and pioneer life--Drama.
Sex symbolism--Drama.


Feature films.
Comedy films.

791.43/75