4 Movies Starring Buddy Hackett

God's Little Acre

God's Little Acre

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-09-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1130 Reviews)

Director:

Anthony Mann

Cast:

Writer:

Erskine Caldwell (novel)

Philip Yordan (front for Ben Maddow)

Fullplot:

A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker out of his way that designates the land on which it rests as as God's Little Acre, where anything that comes from the ground will go to God's work. Eventually he abducts an albino to help him find the gold. Meanwhile, his daughter-in-law is suspected of fooling around with a labor activist out of work since the mill closed, and a local political hopeful actively seeks his daughter's hand in marriage.

The Music Man

The Music Man

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-06-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

151 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (12517 Reviews)

Director:

Morton DaCosta

Cast:

Writer:

Meredith Willson (based on: "The Music Man")

Franklin Lacey (written in collaboration with)

Marion Hargrove (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Confidence man Harold Hill arrives at staid River City intending to cheat the community with his standard scam of offering to equip and train a boy's marching band, then skip town with the money since he has no music skill anyway. Things go awry when he falls for a librarian he tries to divert from exposing him while he inadvertently enriches the town with a love of music.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-12-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

205 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (27207 Reviews)

Director:

Stanley Kramer

Cast:

Writer:

William Rose (story)

Tania Rose (story)

Fullplot:

After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careens over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state.

The Love Bug

The Love Bug

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1969-03-13

Languages:

English, Cantonese, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (9468 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Bill Walsh (screenplay)

Don DaGradi (screenplay)

Gordon Buford (story)

Fullplot:

Meet Jim Douglas, a down-on-his-luck race car driver who lives in an old run-down fire house in San Francisco with his friend Tennessee Steinmetz, a occasional drunk mechanic. One day, Jim went to a luxury car dealer and surprisingly seen a strange Volkswagon Beetle with a unusual problem, it tends to drive on it's own almost having its own mind. Then this car drove all the way to Jim's home. Believing that the owner of the car dealership Peter Thorndyke, planted the car on him. Then, Jim wanted to try out the car for himself, then, he experienced the nature of the car for himself. Then, Jim fixed it and now is in more control. Tennessee dubbed the car "Herbie". Then, Jim used Heribe for races. Jim then, was rising to fame and becoming more successful in racing, Then, Thorndyke wants Herbie back, but Jim refuses and Thorndyke wanted to compete against Jim in the races, then Thorndyke sabotaged Herbie before a race so, he can win. then, a big race known as the "El Dorado" was coming up and Jim and Tennessee along with Thorndyke's former assistant (and ex-Girlfriend) Carrol Bennet, repaired Herbie before the El Dorado. The trio are determined to beat Thorndyke in the El Dorado, who will swindle and cheat to make sure that they do not win.

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