The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976)

Director:

Don Taylor

Writer:

Richard Shapiro (writer)

Release Date:

23 June 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Western

Tagline:

They Weren't Forgotten By History...They Were Left Out On Purpose!

Plot:

Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who...

Plot Keywords:

Half Breed | Revenge | Train | Nudity | Female Nudity

Cast

Lee Marvin	...	Sam Longwood
Oliver Reed	...	Joe Knox (Joseph Pendergast Knox)
Robert Culp	...	Jack Colby
Elizabeth Ashley	...	Nancy Sue
Strother Martin	...	Billy
Sylvia Miles	...	Mike
Kay Lenz	...	Thursday
Phaedra	...	Friday
Howard Platt	...	Vishniac
Jac Zacha	...	Trainer
Letícia Robles	...	Saturday
Luz María Peña	...	Holidays
Erika Carlsson	...	Monday
C.C. Charity	...	Tuesday
Ana Verdugo	...	Wednesday

Also Known As:

Wildcat

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Finland:K-16 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Mexico

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the old car drowns out in the stream crossing, there is a set of wet tire tracks exiting the stream ahead of the old car.

Quotes:

Thursday: [about William Jennings Bryan] He's gonna give women the right to vote.
Billy: He might as well give 'em the right to pee standin' up; they still wouldn't know what to do with it.

Cat Ballyhoo

This is American International Pictures mid 70s drive-in movie idea of Blazing Saddles meets Cat Ballou via Paint Your Wagon. Believe it or not, it is actually funny. Renowned for making budget imitation versions of popular genres or other blockbusters, AIP often just made their own remake of whatever was popular. Bonnie And Clyde? AIP make A Bullet For Pretty Boy or BoxCar Bertha or Bloody Mama, etc. Westworld? AIP make Futureworld. on it went. Until after Superman they made Meteor and went broke. Sad really because AIP had a place in pre Video and DVD Hollywood after Republic Pictures and Allied Artists also went out of the biz. GREAT SCOUT is a Lee Marvin western style 'romp' with an excellent cast. It imitates those initial films above (possibly also The Cheyenne Social Club) and adds some phoney animation (cartoon dots supposed to be a beehive attack) rude Native American Indians played by Oliver Reed (!) and Black Bart style gunslingers. It's all slight and silly. Cross reference the films mentioned and it is all no worse than something Ann Margret and Arnie and Kirk Douglas once made. GREAT SCOUT is a sitter for a cult revival on DVD.