The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
Written by	Richard Carr
Directed by	George McCowan
Starring	Walter Brennan Fred Astaire Edgar Buchanan Andy Devine Chill Wills Lana Wood
Music by	David Raksin
Country of origin	US
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Shelley Hull
Cinematography	Fleet Southcott
Editor(s)	Richard W. Farrell
Running time	75 minutes
Production company(s)	Thomas-Spelling Productions
Distributor	ABC
Release
Original release	November 17, 1970
Chronology
Preceded by	The Over-the-Hill Gang

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again starring Walter Brennan and Fred Astaire is a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week sequel to the Western comedy The Over-the-Hill Gang. The supporting cast includes Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine, Chill Wills, Lana Wood, and Burt Mustin (all of whom, except Wood, were in The Over-the-Hill Gang). Like the 1969 original, the sequel involves aging Texas Rangers and was written by Richard Carr and directed by George McCowan. Pat O'Brien had played the second lead in the first film but his character was left out of the sequel and he was effectively replaced by Astaire. Richard Widmark played O'Brien's character in a quasi-remake two decades later in Once Upon a Texas Train, in which the Over-the-Hill Gang, with an entirely new cast including Stuart Whitman, played supporting roles to Willie Nelson's train robber.

This was the final film of Brennan, three-time winner of the Academy Award.

Old and retired Sergeant Nash Crawford (Brennan), formerly of the Texas Rangers, enters a saloon where his former partner, Gentleman George Asque (Wills), plays poker with a man and beats him ten times in a row. The man calls George a cheater and prepares to draw his gun, but Nash saves his comrade by calling him "Wyatt," making the stranger mistakenly assume he is Wyatt Earp.

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