Noam Pitlik

Chaos reigns on the wide open plains as a host of stars, including Burt Lancaster and Lee Remick, let loose in this wild comedy that spoofs nearly every convention of movie westerns.

Here, Ryan O'Neal makes his feature-film debut as Jack, a hard-luck GI smitten with Nancy (Leigh Taylor-Young), and never stopping to think where her seductive spree of petty-crime kicks might end. The thrills she calls "bounces" may lead to a notoriously big bounce. For Jack that may mean a very big fall.

This delightful comedy stars Dick Van Dyke as Fitzwilly, a good-hearted butler who organizes a petty crime ring to keep his daffy employer, Victoria Woodhouse (Edith Evans), from discovering that despite her propensity for philanthropy, she's dead broke. Aided by fellow servants, Fitzwilly concocts an ingenious scheme to rob Gimbel's and finance Miss Vickie's charities, but his larceny may be detected by her secretary, Juliet (Barbara Feldon).

A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?