A young man from Boston heads west to join the California gold rush with the hopes of restoring his family fortune, but his dedicated butler sets out to find him and bring him home.A young man from Boston heads west to join the California gold rush with the hopes of restoring his family fortune, but his dedicated butler sets out to find him and bring him home.A young man from Boston heads west to join the California gold rush with the hopes of restoring his family fortune, but his dedicated butler sets out to find him and bring him home.
- Bandido
- (as Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez)
- Barfly
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaRichard Haydn replaced Tony Hancock due to Hancock's erratic on-set behavior. Hancock reportedly also had trouble with the mock-Shakespearean dialog.
- GoofsBefore the fight, Bullwhip says that he must follow the Marquess of Queensberry Rules, which were published in 1867. The film is set around 1850.
- Quotes
Eric 'Bullwhip' Griffin: Now that was not fair. You simply must observe the Marquess of Queensberry rules.
Mountain Ox: Huh?
Referee: [pulling Bullwhip aside] Stop usin' them cuss words. I said "a clean fight."
- ConnectionsReferenced in Screen One: Hancock (1991)
The Adventures Of Bullwhip Griffin has a Mark Twain feel to it and it's not too bad, I think Mr. Clemens might have approved of it in his younger and less cynical days. The chief villain of the piece is Karl Malden playing a confidence man who goes by the name of 'Judge' Griffin. He's a man full of tricks, he's a lot like the 'king' and 'duke' characters from Huckleberry Finn. Twain would have really relished Malden's performance.
As for Roddy McDowall he's as innocent as those Americans going abroad for the first time as tourists in Innocents Abroad. In point of fact San Francisco and the gold fields of California were a whole continent away and might as well been a foreign country. In fact McDowall would have been more at home in London than in San Francisco had he gone east instead of west.
But this is America and it's the land of no titled classes. McDowall dares dream he too could win the hand of Suzanne Pleshette who has shaken her proper eastern upbringing to sing in Harry Guardino's Barbary Coast saloon. Guardino is another villain playing his part with relish, he's interested in Pleshette for more than her singing career.
Highlight of the film is McDowall taking on Mike Mazurki in a prize fight. Only in the movies would you think that McDowall could beat Mazurki in a fight. Still it's a very funny sequence.
The cast looks like they're having a real good time making this film and the enthusiasm is infectious. The Adventures Of Bullwhip Griffin is one of the better products to come from the Magic Kingdom in the Sixties.
- bkoganbing
- Dec 28, 2009
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- Bullwhip Griffin oder Goldrausch in Kalifornien
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- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1