You won't be disappointed!

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Boring

Playing the title role Burt Reynolds settles into the cynical good old boy character he would really shine in for the 70s and 80s in Sam Whiskey. Burt's playing a man no better than he should be who often goes back and forth on both sides of the law who gets an interesting proposition from widow Angie Dickinson.It seems during the late war between the safe her late husband robbed the Denver Mint of a lot of its bullion. She wants to give it back, but not so anyone would know it was ever stolen because some fake bullion was left in its place and about to be discovered as the U.S. government is about to withdraw Greenbacks and resume specie type money. He gets $20,000.00 from Dickinson for he and his associates Ossie Davis and Clint Walker.They to devise quite the caper and that I won't go into. Reynolds took a lot of his style and persona from James Garner and his Sam Whiskey could have been Jim Rockford in the old west. Dickinson's the kind of woman you don't turn down, she knows how to keep a man's interest.Special mention goes to Woodrow Parfrey as the inspecting Treasury man from the east. Without knowing it Parfrey and his hapless checker playing self become an integral part of the caper.A caper western in the tradition of The War Wagon and a good one.

Burt Reynolds and Anne Margaret sizzle with on screen chemistry in Burt Reynolds first good movie.Up till this point Burt had been in mostly forgettable movies like "Operation CIA" and "Navajo Joe" or smaller roles in movies like "Angel Baby" and "Armoured Command". Here he shines as he does the type of light comedy for which would become his trademark. Without his trademark moustache his performance is full of charm and wit, with a twinkle in his eye, he is clearly enjoying himself. Plot In A Paragraph: Sam Whiskey is an all round nice guy, but with a loud, fast mouth that gets him in trouble. He is willing to try his hand at just about anything but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he is to salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing??Of the rest of the cast, frequent costar of Burt Reynolds, Sweet Ossie Davies who I adore, is great here, like wise Clint Walker. Anne Margaret is gorgeous, and it's easy to see how she tempted Reynolds character to do her bidding!!

Many movies are produced for purposes other than artistic merit, or creative urge, so I'm not going to review the "quality" of this movie, as that is not its point. (Or maybe a I will... it's hard to avoid!) In 1969, movies were much more expensive to produce than today (as far as film stock, negatives, distribution, etc.), so major studio releases had to use certain stock genres, settings, and well known stars to get projects approved.This is one of those projects, and it serves that purpose well. If you want to see Burt and Angie in their prime, having a good time making a movie, then this time capsule is for you. It bangs right along, with no slow spots, and it easy to consume and understand.It's a great movie to watch for the flavor of sixties star driven action comedies, but it is very dated, and not well written. The dialog is basic, and the plot such as it is, exists just to string together action sequences. This movie never was never intended to be good, bad, or indifferent. It was supposed to sell tickets and refreshments when people wanted to get out for the evening.But that's fine - it did its job when it needed to, but skip it unless you're interested in the culture of the time when the movie was made, it doesn't stand alone as a movie of the genre worth watching.

Sam Whiskey (Burt Reynolds , one of his first ever main cast ) is an rogue adventurer , then he's hired by a gorgeous widow (Angie Dickinson ). He must retrieve a treasure recently stolen by her deceased husband from a sunken ship . Sam teams up an African-American blacksmith (Ossie Davis) and a tall inventor (Clint Walker) who designs a diving helmet . But they are followed by a fat man and hoodlums (Anthony James) . Later on , they manage to get hundred pounds of gold bars and put it into a mint house ruled by a stiff-upper-lip superintendent (William Schallert) with anyone aware . This entertaining movie displays western action , fist-play , bemusing caper , shootouts and lively humor . Friendly performance by Burt Reynolds at his first serious attempt to be fun and enticing Angie Dickinson who does a brief nudist exhibition and heavily cut by censorship . This film is one of a number of screen westerns that Burt Reynolds played during the mid-late 1960s and early 1970s . These movie westerns include Fade-in (1965) by Jud Taylor ; Navajo Joe (1966) by Sergio Corbucci ; 100 rifles (1969) by Tom Gries ; The man who loved Cat Dancing (1973) by Richard T Heffron and the overlong TV series Gunsmoke . Good secondary cast , as the veteran William Schallert as mint superintendent , Ossie Davis , Clint Walker and last film of Chubby Johnson , habitual support cast in numerous Westerns ; furthermore , Anthony James , usual baddie of the 70s . Atmospheric musical score and colorful cinematography ; however , the film is made in television style . Director Arnold Laven created his proper production company along with Arthur Gardner and Jules V. Levy in the 50s , at the decade since , they had produced dozens of additional TV Western including ¨Rifleman¨ , ¨Big Valley¨ , ¨Law of the Plainsmen¨ , ¨Zane Grey theater¨ , ¨Gunsmoke¨ and Laven directed several Western movies such as ¨Geronimo¨ , ¨Rought night in Jericho¨ , ¨The glory guys¨ and ¨Sam Whiskey¨ , among others. Rating : Average but amusing.