Sam Whiskey | 
| Director: Arnold Laven
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis, William Schallert, Woodrow Parfrey
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 45068
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1008329D
UPC: 027616923608
EAN: 0027616923608
ASIN: B0007O392A
Theatrical Release Date: April 1, 1969
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Sam whiskey is an all-round talent but when the attractive widow laura offers him a job he hesitates: hes to salvage gold bars that lauras dead husband stole from a sunken ship & bring them back to the mint before theyre missed. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/13/2008 Starring: Burt Reynolds Ossie Davis Run time: 97 minutes
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| Customer Reviews:
 More entertaining than it has any right to be... November 11, 2008
Daniel Sweeney (Los Angeles, CA)
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.
GOOD OLE BOY'S September 3, 2007
TONI G (TEXAS,USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
BURT IS IN HIS TYPICAL GOOD WORKING PART. HE PICKS GOOD STORIES TO
ACT IN. AS USUAL.
 About Time!!! August 18, 2005
Tim Collins
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is one of Burt Reynold's "over-looked" movies. Fantastic movie! Check it out.
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