Herbert Voland

Don't Just Stand There -- Award winning (Best Editing) entry at 48-hour Film Festival, New Hampshire USA. Shot in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Kinn, Norway. Film completed from start to finish in 48 hours. We pulled the genre, drama, quite literally out of a hat along with a single line of dialogue, 'Don't Just Stand There, Move It..' that we were required to include in the film. We decided, in the midst of shooting, that we would change course and that the central idea of the film would be anchored to that same line of dialogue. 6gb of raw video was shot in Norway and uploaded to a server in Portsmouth, where it was edited and incorporated in to the American footage. The film was intended to make the audience think about a situation, one that could have happened to them. Somewhere far away there has been a death of a child and a man on the other side of the Atlantic is haunted by these thoughts, sounds and images. He wanders alone, confused, going deeper and deeper into his troubling thoughts wandering around lost. One can hear children's music, and we see a woman chasing after her child . We tried to evoke happiness, sadness and confusion and the wonder of it all.

Knotts stars as Jesse W. Heywood, a timid Pennsylvania dentist who leaves the comfort of the East to bring modern dentistry to the West. The misadventures begin when Jesse is duped into marrying a statuesque redhead (and reformed stagecoach bandit) who has agreed to finger the men responsible for selling whiskey to the Indians. Soon, Jesse and his bride are involved in a series of shootouts against renegade Indians and the town bad guy, and the desperate dentist is forced to switch from gums to guns in this rollicking comedy romp.

Don Knotts steps in to play bumbling dentist Jesse Heywood, a role made famous by Bob Hope in the original version of the movie. On his way West, Jesse encounters the alluring Penny, who helps him fight off attackers with her superior shooting skills. Only trouble is, Jesse thinks his &NFi;own&NFi_; gun fired off the rounds that scared the bandits. But in no time, he discovers that although he's a mite cowardly, he really is a gunslinger at heart.

Don Knotts stars as a timid dentist who is forced to switch from gums to guns when he moves to the Old West and is duped into marrying a statuesque redhead (and reformed stagecoach bandit).

Don Knotts stars as a timid dentist who is forced to switch from gums to guns when he moves to the Old West and is duped into marrying a statuesque redhead (and reformed stagecoach bandit).

A former bandit ropes a high-strung dentist into her secret mission to corral a band of gun smugglers.