Synopsis
Naive Iowa farm boy Lewis Tater dreams of being a famous Western novelist like his hero, Zane Grey. He leaves home to answer a writing correspondence course's ad for on-campus classes, only to discover that the school consists of a row of postboxes at an isolated Nevada train depot. On the run from the con men responsible, Lewis stumbles across "real" cowboys--cowboy actors shooting a movie in the desert. The would-be writer soon finds himself instead acting in Westerns, for the rundown Tumbleweed Productions studio, in Depression-era Hollywood.
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Cast
- Jeff BridgesLewis Tater
- Alan ArkinBert Kessler
- Blythe DannerMiss Trout
- Andy GriffithHoward Pike
- Alex RoccoEarl
- Richard B. ShullStout Crook
- Anthony JamesLean Crook
- Donald PleasenceA.J. Nietz
- Frank CadyPa Tater
- Herb EdelmanPolo
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