Product Details

• Actors: Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis, William Schallert, Woodrow Parfrey
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: May 17, 2005
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007O392A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,476 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Sam Whiskey" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Genre: Westerns
Rating: PG
Release Date: 17-MAY-2005
Media Type: DVD

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More entertaining than it has any right to be..., November 11, 2008

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Daniel Sweeney (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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So I was sick all weekend, bedridden with the flu and flipping through cable when I stumbled upon the Encore Western Channel, which I watched for hour after hour. For some reason, they were playing a triple-shot of Burt Reynolds westerns: Navajo Joe, The Man who Loved Cat Dancing and Sam Whiskey.

Now I grew up in the Eighties so I missed most of Reynolds movies; last year I hunted down and watched many for which he is best known: Smokey and the Bandit (rip-roaring hilarity), Stroker Ace (yuck), Cannonball Run (meh) and Hooper (my all-time favorite, ridiculously entertaining). I thought I had seen all there was to see from ol' Burt, but Sam Whiskey pleasantly surprised me.

This isn't really a western, it's more like a heist movie set on the frontier. I think the reason some of the other reviewers were disappointed by this one was that they were looking for stagecoach robberies, breakneck horseback riding and widescreen Monument Valley-like vistas. While there is some of that, for the most part this film revolves around a "reverse-heist;" In this case, Burt and his team played by Ossie Davis(very funny and amiable as a blacksmith) and Clint Walker (imposing hulk of a man who's gentle on the inside) are trying to return some gold to the US mint. They work out a suitably ingenious and ludicrous scheme (the cornerstone for every caper flick) and work it out.

While the proceedings are executed largely for laughs there are surprising amounts of edge-of-your-seat suspense as various curveballs are thrown our heroes' way. I have to admit I laughed out loud probably five times, which was incredible considering how miserable I felt and how much my sore throat hurt WHEN I LAUGHED. But I forgive the movie for this! I like the overall good-natured and almost lackadaisic nature of the pacing. The film keeps moving and is engaging, but by no means is it in any hurry.

So I would recommend this one to all Burt Reynolds fans, all caper movie fans and generally anyone who is willing to give a 40-year-old easygoing movie a chance.

And as an interesting side-note: As if I didn't already realize that I'd watched westerns all weekend -- I thought that actor Clint Walker looked vaguely familiar but couldn't quite place him. They I looked him up on IMDb...he played the icy bad guy in a Charles Bronson western I'd watched earlier in the weekend, "The White Buffalo." I hadn't placed him because it was such a polar opposite role for him. So in his career he's pulled a heist on the Denver Mint with Burt Reynolds and got into a gunfight with Charles Bronson on the frontier. Not too shabby.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Comedy, June 14, 2009

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I've seen this movie several times and laugh every time. One of those overlooked little comedies. Reynolds at his best.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars GOOD OLE BOY'S, September 3, 2007

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TONI G (TEXAS,USA) - See all my reviews

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BURT IS IN HIS TYPICAL GOOD WORKING PART. HE PICKS GOOD STORIES TO
ACT IN. AS USUAL.