Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Syl Bob Denver returned to television in playing Dusty in the wild days of the old west in this Sherwood Schwartz sitcom. The episode I saw was entitled "Love Means Bananas." Bob Denver was brilliant as Dusty with shades of Gilligan in his character. The supporting cast were fine but the series only lasted one season. Bob Denver was a brilliant comedian whether as Gilligan or Dusty. The series was a typical sitcom with light-hearted spirit and good natured fun. There was no seriousness in it all even with a gorilla in the episode. If you're a Bob Denver fan, you will want to see this series. I caught the episode on "The Decade You Were Born 1970s" DVD or I would have never had known about it so it was a nice surprise.

DKosty123 Some folks remember the Tucker Automobile which was a dud introduced with pretty models and sold less than 200 cars before bankruptcy? This is Sherwood Schwartz equal to it in sitcom land. You have the looker - Laurie Saunders of Petticoat Junction, the actor in Forrest Tucker, and the zany wackier of Bob Denver in a lost western sit com. Only this one makes The Guns of Will Sonnett look like Shakespeare.They forgot to invite the writers into the casting party and the scripts show it. There is a group of full episodes on You Tube now so you can judge it for yourself. In a way I hope the whole show which looks like it ran on ABC - not the Nursery school- gets put on there just to find out if there is a really funny episode. I suspect there is not but that is the only way to find out.

theowinthrop I admit that I do like GILLIGAN'S ISLAND. Idiot show that it was, the cast (despite rumors of personality clashes) blended perfectly and the stories, while predictable, were funny. And I suspect that I have the support of most television viewers about this. When I watched the antics of Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, and the others I never expected it was the equivalent of Shakespeare, but I normally felt humored after 30 minutes.GILLIGAN actually lasted three years on television in terms of new episodes (except for a couple of television movies in the late 1970s), Bob Denver moved on to a now forgotten comedy THE GOOD GUYS with Herb Edelman and Joyce Van Patton (and later Jim Backus, as Edelman's disapproving father-in-law). It lasted two years. Then Denver got offered this show. Regretfully he accepted it.I have pointed out that there have been only three really good western sit-coms that have popped up on television: MAVERICK, BEST OF THE WEST, and F-TROOP. There were also two others of mediocrity only: PISTOLS 'N PETTICOATS and RANGO. But DUSTY'S TRAIL makes RANGO (whose sole asset was Tim Conway) look like it was written by William Congreve or George Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde. Basically DUSTY'S TRAIL replaced the situation of Gilligan, the Skipper, the Howells, Mary Ann, Ginger, and the Professor being on that deserted island, and put Gilligan and the Skipper, the Howells, and Ginger into a stagecoach going west. Now the central idea of GILLIGAN'S ISLAND was the isolation of the castaways on that island, and how they face weekly threats to their existence. It works, oddly enough (still does on a serious note - the reality show SURVIVOR is identical to it, in that the last one to "survive" has not been voted "dead" and off the island by the others). But this can't be transferred to a stagecoach going through the American West of the 1870s. How can it? You have threats (natural disasters, buffalo stampedes, Indian wars, bandits), but you have plenty of settlements to go to. The writers tried to make it similar by making "Dusty" (Denver) a woefully inept guide. It's not quite the same thing. Moreover, although Forrest Tucker was a good actor (and even a good comedian) he was not as properly fussy as Alan Hale Jr. was in GILLIGAN'S ISLAND. I saw it twice, and mercifully have forgotten the content of the episodes. Because I like Tucker and Denver I am giving this a "4", but only for them.

playtrombone This show was Gilligan's Island set in the old West. Instead of being shipwrecked on a deserted island, they are a group separated from a wagon train and lost in the wilderness.Every character in Gilligan's Island has a direct counterpart in Dusty's Trail. Of course, the title character is played in both series by Bob Denver. The Skipper is replaced by the wagon master, Forrest Tucker. There is a rich married couple, farm girl, and smart guy in each group. And this series substitutes a saloon hall girl for an actress to round out the group of seven.Just as the castaways in Gilligan's Island spent every episode trying to get off the island, in Dusty's Trail, they try to find their way out of the wilderness, and failing every time. Just the same, the episodes are amusing, although they seem a little watered-down for us Gilligan's Island fanatics. We only watch this series to see Bob Denver in his usual antics.