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The Reluctant Astronaut is a american film of genre Science fiction released in USA on 5 september 1967 with Don Knotts

The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)

The Reluctant Astronaut
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Released in USA 5 september 1967
Length 1h43
OriginUSA
Genres Science fiction,    Comedy
Rating62% 3.147723.147723.147723.147723.14772

The Reluctant Astronaut (1967) is a Universal Pictures feature film produced and directed by Edward Montagne and starring Don Knotts in a story about a kiddie-ride operator who is hired as a janitor at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston and is eventually sent into space.

Comedian Knotts had won several Emmy Awards as small-town comic sheriff's deputy Barney Fife in the 1960-1968 television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show but left the show as a regular at the end of its fifth season (1964–1965) to pursue a career in feature films with Universal Pictures. The Reluctant Astronaut followed Knotts' first Universal film venture, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966). Actor Paul Hartman appears in the film and would later star in The Andy Griffith Show. The film's screenplay writers Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum had served as teleplay writers for the television series.

Synopsis

Roy Fleming (Don Knotts) is fairground operator of a kiddie-spaceship ride in Sweetwater, Missouri. Despite being 35 years old, he still lives with his parents and suffers from extreme acrophobia (fear of heights). His father Arbuckle (Arthur O'Connell) wants better things for his son, so he sends an application to NASA. Roy later learns from his mother (Jeanette Nolan) that NASA has accepted him as a "WB-1074".

Actors

Don Knotts

(Roy Fleming)
Leslie Nielsen

(Major Fred Gifford)
Joan Freeman

(Ellie Jackson)
Arthur O'Connell

(Arbuckle "Buck" Fleming)
Frank McGrath

(Plank)
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