The irrepressible Phyllis Diller is Agatha Knabenshu, a piano saleswoman with a huge appetite for men and "Did you hear the one..." style jokes the scares the men away and legs that scare horses. Like "The Music Man", this opens with Diller getting off of the train, making passes at the other traveling salesman rather than doing her best to get away from them. She'll make a good partner with unlucky inventor Bob Denver who destroys more things than he invests, and turn this River City like town in a way they won't forget.
A great cast of fabulous character comics surround Diller and Denver including Paul Reed and Jeanette Nolan as Denver's parents and Joe Flynn, Herb Vigran, Bob Hastings, Charles Lane and David Hartman as townsfolk, with Eileen Wesson as Denver's love interests. Then there's the horses, winnying every time they get a sight of the colorfully dressed Diller's gams.
Then there's the bouncy music score, saved for farcical 60's films of this nature, really adding to the goofy situations and Diller's wild outfits. The jokes are a mixed bag of corny standards and some that wouldn't get past the censors today. Diller and Denver are nearly as good a teaming as Diller and Hope (that other Bob) and Denver and Hale. It's just too bad that they didn't do more together. The film as far as plot is concerned is forgettable, but for the gags, verbal and visual, is a gem.
A great cast of fabulous character comics surround Diller and Denver including Paul Reed and Jeanette Nolan as Denver's parents and Joe Flynn, Herb Vigran, Bob Hastings, Charles Lane and David Hartman as townsfolk, with Eileen Wesson as Denver's love interests. Then there's the horses, winnying every time they get a sight of the colorfully dressed Diller's gams.
Then there's the bouncy music score, saved for farcical 60's films of this nature, really adding to the goofy situations and Diller's wild outfits. The jokes are a mixed bag of corny standards and some that wouldn't get past the censors today. Diller and Denver are nearly as good a teaming as Diller and Hope (that other Bob) and Denver and Hale. It's just too bad that they didn't do more together. The film as far as plot is concerned is forgettable, but for the gags, verbal and visual, is a gem.