Hi, I'm Johnny Cashless. I need to make a quick buck and I have a guitar that Merle Travis actually plays while they show my hands which are really Merle's finger pickin' hands. Got it so far? Oh, and I have a gun with a silencer but it makes a big noise when I shoot it.
Merle Travis and Johnny Cash are both country music legends who appear here as actors. They act like they are acting. Dolly Parton was too young and Minnie Pearl was busy with a function at Grinder's Switch so they got some blonde who looks like Barbara Billingsley to be the female lead who also has to pretend to act.
Good cast with Vic Taybeck thrown in. He is OK as a sleasey guy. Ronnie Howard does a good job. The old dinosaur who plays the bank guard is a believable character. There's also a dark haired other woman, who I guess is either Pamela Mason or Tiny Tim or Raymond Burr. She looks a lot like Jack Lemmon did in Some Like it Hot but she is less desirable, of course.
The plot is a basic bank robbery gone wrong/telephone/nice '60s cars type of chowder served with a fur covered negligee and some broken statuettes. If it were not for the great names in the cast this one would have disappeared altogether like many other fun films that gave us a look at the technology and attitudes of 50 years ago.
The only thing I missed seeing here was a revolving door at the bank. That is always a great place for a shootout.
The title song is so bad even Johnny Cash can't save it. The song could be done worse by Wayne Newton or Dinah Shore, but it really kills any popcorn appetite you might have brought into your viewing room.
Other than that it was OK and I did watch it for free so I am not complaining. I want to watch it again after I have watched every other movie that has ever been made.
Johnny Cash did do some other acting roles where he was pretty good. Many pop singers became good actors such as Bobby Darin and John Denver and Burl Ives.
Merle Travis and Johnny Cash are both country music legends who appear here as actors. They act like they are acting. Dolly Parton was too young and Minnie Pearl was busy with a function at Grinder's Switch so they got some blonde who looks like Barbara Billingsley to be the female lead who also has to pretend to act.
Good cast with Vic Taybeck thrown in. He is OK as a sleasey guy. Ronnie Howard does a good job. The old dinosaur who plays the bank guard is a believable character. There's also a dark haired other woman, who I guess is either Pamela Mason or Tiny Tim or Raymond Burr. She looks a lot like Jack Lemmon did in Some Like it Hot but she is less desirable, of course.
The plot is a basic bank robbery gone wrong/telephone/nice '60s cars type of chowder served with a fur covered negligee and some broken statuettes. If it were not for the great names in the cast this one would have disappeared altogether like many other fun films that gave us a look at the technology and attitudes of 50 years ago.
The only thing I missed seeing here was a revolving door at the bank. That is always a great place for a shootout.
The title song is so bad even Johnny Cash can't save it. The song could be done worse by Wayne Newton or Dinah Shore, but it really kills any popcorn appetite you might have brought into your viewing room.
Other than that it was OK and I did watch it for free so I am not complaining. I want to watch it again after I have watched every other movie that has ever been made.
Johnny Cash did do some other acting roles where he was pretty good. Many pop singers became good actors such as Bobby Darin and John Denver and Burl Ives.