Film Information
The film did well and was released on home video in 1981. The movie is remembered for two sequences involving a hotel and a supermarket.
This is the only one of their five films together where Don Knotts and Tim Conway do not share any scenes.
Johnny Unitas appears as a commentator with Bob Crane (in his last feature film appearance) supplying the play-by-play during the football broadcasts. Dick Enberg did the play-by-play for the local games.
The name "Hank Cooper" was later used in the Disney film The Love Bug as the name of the mechanic who meets Herbie (played by Bruce Campbell). Don Knotts co-starred with Dean Jones in the film Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo.
Gus would be the last feature film in the short career of then 20-year old Grimes, and the final film appearance of Virginia O'Brien.
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