The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
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| Directed by | James Neilson |
| Screenplay by | Lowell S. Hawley |
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By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman |
| Starring |
Roddy McDowall Suzanne Pleshette Karl Malden |
| Music by |
Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (songs) George Bruns (score) |
| Cinematography | Edward Colman |
| Edited by | Marsh Hendry |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
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108 mins. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,900,000 (US/ Canada) |
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin is a 1967 American Western comedy film directed by James Neilson. The film is based on the novel By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman, and stars Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette and Karl Malden. The songs were written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.
In 1845, after Arabella Flagg is orphaned in Boston, her young brother Jack and the family's former butler Griffin stow away aboard a ship bound for San Francisco, where the gold rush has begun. Griffin gets work as the ship's cook.
A swindler and thief, Judge Higgins, steals a map to a gold mine belonging to Quentin Bartlett, an actor who is among the ship's passengers. Griffin, Jack and Bartlett all pursue the crooked judge while Arabella arrives in town and takes a job as a dancehall girl to make ends meet.
Griffin encounters a beefy bully, Mountain Ox, and lashes out a punch that flattens him. "Bullwhip" becomes his new nickname. Inspired by the incident, Griffin enters a prizefighting match and wins the money. He also wins Arabella's affection, while Judge Higgins, caught trying to steal the fight's receipts, quivers behind bars as a lynch mob for him forms outside.
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