''Uphill All The Way'' is a 1986 American

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directed by Frank Q. Dobbs and starring Roy Clark,

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, Frank Gorshin and Sheb Wooley. The film has developed a very small cult following among Western fans.

Plot

Southwestern United States; . Two bumbling good ol' boys, Ben and Booger, are thrown off a train after failing to show their tickets. They wander into a saloon/brothel and attempt unsuccessfully to cheat their way into a fortune at the card table. Penniless, they try to trade their shotgun for a loan at the bank, causing a teller to sound the alarm. They try to escape by hitching a lift from a driver who thinks they’re stealing his car at gunpoint, and runs away to demand that they face justice. The sheriff forms a posse to capture them, but Ben and Booger "terrorize" two U.S. Army troopers with their shotgun, allowing them to steal their horses and uniforms. The sheriff orders the two now out-of-uniform troopers to join the hunt, and there is a chaotic chase across the west, with gunfights galore. Ben and Booger escape by train into Mexico, but can’t find their tickets, so once again they get flung off the train. We’re left to assume that they’re off to launch their next fraudulent scheme.

Cast

* Roy Clark as Ben *

as Booger * Frank Gorshin as Pike * Richard Paul as Bank Teller *

as Sheriff *

as Captain *

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as Corporal *

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as Private *

as Miss Jessie * Sheb Wooley as Anson Sudro *

as Widow Quinn *

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as Leon *

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as Carlos "Chicken Carlos" * Burt Reynolds as The Gambler (uncredited) * Jo Perkins as Mrs. Sudro * David Logan Rankin as Tom Sudro

External links

* * 1986 films American Western (genre) comedy films 1986 comedy films Films shot in Texas 1980s English-language films 1980s American films 1980s Western (genre) comedy films {{1980s-comedy-film-stub