Gus (film)

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Gus is a 1976 film by Walt Disney Studios. Its center character is Gus, a football playing mule.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Synopsis 3 Film Information 4 External links

[edit] Cast

• Ed Asner... Hank Cooper
• Don Knotts... Coach Venner
• Tim Conway... Crankcase
• Dick Van Patten... Cal Wilson
• Ronnie Schell... Joe Barnsdale
• Bob Crane... Pepper
• Johnny Unitas... Himself
• Dick Butkus... Rob Cargil
• Harold Gould... Charles Gwynn
• Tom Bosley... Spinner
• Liam Dunn... Dr. Morgan
• Richard Kiel... Tall Man
• Iris Adrian... Fan's Wife

[edit] Synopsis

The basis of the film is based on a football-kicking mule named "Gus" and his trainer "Andy."

The film opens with a soccer game, and the Petrovic family watching their son Stepjan win the soccer game. Andy Petrovic works on his farm in Yugoslavia, and can't play soccer at all. A soccer ball is behind his mule, Gus. After saying that he never wants to see a soccer ball again, Gus kicks the soccer ball and Andy tries it with him and he says, "Oyage!" and Gus kicks the ball.

Meanwhile, the California Atoms are a team that cannot do anything thing right. Debbie Kovac, a woman with Yugoslavian parents gets the Yugoslavian papers, and once Hank Cooper and Coach Venner find out about Gus, they want him over. So with that, Andy and Gus fly over to California and Gus' kicking of the football gets them to agree to keep him in. (to be continued)

[edit] Film Information

The film had done reasonably well and was released on home video in 1981. The movie is remembered for two sequences involving a hotel and a supermarket.

The only one of their five movies where Don Knotts, and Tim Conway do not share any scenes.

[edit] External links

• Gus at the Internet Movie Database