DKosty123 It is interesting that Buddy Ebsen managed to get this one in between seasons of his CBS series. His role is more quiet and reserved in this movie than Uncle Jed, and he has to mail order a bride since Elly Mae is not available. Too bad since Donna Douglas would not do badly here.Lois Nettleton, Marie Windor and Barbara Luna are much more mature ladies here, than Douglas would have been. There is some solid male acting here with Warren Oates getting lessons on how to be the bad guy he would become in the classic Bonnie & Clyde which comes later. The plot has Will Lane (Ebsen) assigned by a friend to protect his son from himself as the young man is a lot irresponsible, After getting full exposure of the kid, he decides the only way to get the kid to settle down is get him a woman. I think it is more of a way to torture a woman but somehow this actually works pretty well and this film turns into a minor success. Hey, not every summer vacation movie can turn into a "Psycho" Especially when the master is not behind the camera.

Irie212 Many movies deserve their obscurity, and none more than this formula Western. Direction, editing, writing-- all are uninspired, especially the occasional attempts at humor.But the casting is atrocious. Desperately bad. They've all done good work in other roles, but in this… So clean-cut he almost squeaks, Keir Dullea is at no point convincing as a gambling, carousing womanizer.Buddy Ebsen adds nothing new—not one glance, not one inflection-- to the tiresomely familiar role of the wise, slow-spoken, solitary old-timer.In the eponymous role, Lois Nettleton stares soulfully toward Ebsen, Dullea, or the near distance. That's about it. Refreshing though it is to see a rather plain actress as a star, she finds no way to redeem—with humor, with spirit-- a woman who did not advertise for a husband (her boss did, played by a wry Marie Windsor), and who has almost no curiosity about her sight-unseen future mate and his home. In fact, objectively, her non-reaction is almost criminally irresponsible for a widow with a child.If ever a film deserved to be in the background of some other activity (including sleep), it's this one.

BigWhiskers Buddy Ebsen plays an older man who honors a dead friends request to go back and find his son and tame him by marrying him off to one of those mail order brides whom he finds in a saloon. This concept has been done before and since and the music when Ebsen is off on his cupids errand makes it sound like your in for a musical and Ebsen looks so out of place. In the midst of his Jed Clampett days in 1963-64 when this movie was filmed and came out , all he is missing is the accent and Jed's hat. The movie is boring with bland characters and really tiresome dialog, the young man whom Ebsen tries to get hitched doesn't want a bride and only doing it so Ebsen will leave and give him the deed to his dads land. The actor playing the young man and the woman playing his bride are so boring to watch , no chemistry and you wonder how they will end up together which you know they will.In the end there is a gunfight and Ebsen's character leaves the couple whom have decided to stay married with her little boy(played by Jimmy Mathers ,the older brother of Leave it to Beavers Jerry Mathers,another commenter mistakenly posted that he was played by Jerry).You think Ebsen may end up alone as the camera pulls back to him riding away but in the final scene he goes back to the saloon where he found the young bride and you hear wedding bells music,he straightens his tie and goes into the saloon fade out. This last scene refers to an earlier scene when he walks into the saloon looking for what he thinks is a young woman placing an ad for a husband and it turns out she is the owner of the saloon and middle aged. She takes a fancy to Ebsen and thinks he's there for her, so in the end he does care for her ,and ends up going back to pursue her.The rest is left up to the audience to surmise the happy ending. I found the movie boring and Ebsen so out of place - I'll bet he wanted to do his part in one day and be done with this bland movie.One thing I do admit that at 56 yrs old ,Ebsen was hardly elderly looking or an old man as the plot indicates - in fact he was handsome and sexy for his age at that time. Overall i give the movie 3/10 ..Not terrible but not good either.

wolfhell88 Old fashioned western comedy with an interesting cast. Keir "2001" Dullea plays a wild young man and Buddy "Barnaby Jones" Ebsen plays a friend of his dead father who should learn him how to behave. Warren Oates and a very young William Smith play his bad friends.