- Gus (film)
Infobox Film
name = Gus
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director =Vincent McEveety
producer =Ron W. Miller
writer =Ted Key (story)
Arthur Alsberg
Don Nelson
starring =Don Knotts Edward Asner Gary Grimes Tim Conway Louise Williams
music =Robert F. Brunner
cinematography =Frank V. Phillips
editing = Robert Stafford
distributor =Buena Vista Distribution
released =July 7 ,1976
runtime = 96 min.
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language = English
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imdb_id = 0074599"Gus" is a 1976 film by
Walt Disney Productions . Its center character is Gus, a football-playing mule.Synopsis
The basis of the film is based on a football-kicking mule named "Gus" and his trainer "Andy."
The film opens with a soccer game, and the Petrovic family watching their son Stepjan win the soccer game. Andy Petrovic works on his farm in Yugoslavia, and can't play soccer at all. A soccer ball is behind his mule, Gus. After saying that he never wants to see a soccer ball again, Gus kicks the soccer ball and Andy tries it with him and he says, "Oyage!" and Gus kicks the ball.
Meanwhile, the California Atoms are a team that cannot do anything thing right. Debbie Kovac, a woman with Yugoslavian parents gets the Yugoslavian papers, and once Hank Cooper and Coach Venner find out about Gus, they want him over. So with that, Andy and Gus fly over to California and Gus' kicking of the football gets them to agree to keep him in. (to be continued)
Film Information
The film had done reasonably well and was released on home video in 1981. The movie is remembered for two sequences involving a hotel and a supermarket.
The only one of their five movies where
Don Knotts andTim Conway do not share any scenes.Johnny Unitas appears as a color commentator withBob Crane supplying the play-by-play during the football broadcasts.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 withDean Jones in the film "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo ".External links
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