Don Knotts : reluctant hero pack

Resource Information

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Label

Don Knotts : reluctant hero pack

Title remainder

reluctant hero pack

Title variation

• Ghost and Mr. Chicken
• Reluctant Astronaut
• Shakiest Gun in the West
• Love God?

Contributor

• Greenbaum, Everett
• Gregory, James, 1911-2002
• Hartmann, Edmund L., 1911-2003
• Hiken, Nat
• Knotts, Don, 1924-2006
• Montagne, Edward
• Nielsen, Leslie, 1926-2010
• O'Brien, Edmond, 1915-1985
• O'Connell, Arthur, 1908-1981
• Rafkin, Alan, 1928-2001
• Rhoades, Barbara, 1947-
• Staley, Joan
• Tashlin, Frank
• White, Jesse
• Arthur, Maureen, 1934-
• Universal Pictures (Firm)
• Francis, Anne, 1930-2011
• Freeman, Joan, 1941-
• Fritzell, Jim

Subject

• Astronauts -- Drama
• Comedy films
• Dentists -- Drama
• Feature films
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Drama
• Ghost plays
• Sex symbolism -- Drama

Genre

• Comedy films
• trueDrama
• Feature films

Language

• eng
• spa
• fre
• eng
• eng

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

Related

• Shakiest gun in the west
• Ghost and Mr. Chicken
• Love god?
• Reluctant astronaut

Member of

• Franchise collection

Cataloging source

ZAC

Characteristic

videorecording

Dewey number

791.43/75

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13

Language note

English dialogue, Spanish or French subtitles

PerformerNote

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?)

Runtime

397

Series statement

The Franchise collection

Target audience

general

Technique

live action