Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.
- mistaken identity
- prison escape
- fish out of water
- wrongful imprisonment
- buddy
- buddy comedy
The bill
Gene Wilder
Skip Donahue
Richard Pryor
Harry Monroe
Georg Stanford Brown
Rory Schultebrand
JoBeth Williams
Meredith
- Miguel Ángel Suárez — Jesus Ramirez
- Craig T. Nelson — Deputy Ward Wilson
- Barry Corbin — Warden Walter Beatty
- Charles Weldon — Blade
- Nicolas Coster — Warden Henry Sampson
- Joel Brooks — Len Garber
- Jonathan Banks — Jack Graham
- Erland van Lidth — Grossberger
- Lewis van Bergen — Guard #1
- Karmin Murcelo — Teresa Ramirez
- Franklyn Ajaye — Young Man in Hospital
- Directed
- Sidney Poitier
- Written
- Bruce Jay Friedman
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 494 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
If this stayed with you
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