Sam Whiskey is a 1969 film starring movie and television star Burt Reynolds a decade before he zoomed to superstar status in the late 1970s. Reynolds plays the eponymous Sam in this comedy western, seduced by a widow played by Angie Dickinson. With the help of characters played by Clint Walker (an inventor) and Ossie Davis (a blacksmith), Burt and Angie scheme to find and return a fortune in gold bars stolen by her late husband, with many comic complications.
Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing? Written by Tom Zoerner
