The best Don Knotts’s family movies

Don Knotts

Don Knotts

21/07/1924- 24/02/2006
Today we present the best Don Knotts’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Don Knotts’s movies.
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Chicken Little

Chicken Little
5.7/10
When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken.

Air Buddies

Air Buddies
4.7/10
Five puppies are shocked to find out that their parents, Buddy and Molly, have been abducted and face obstacles while trying to rescue them.

Cats Don't Dance

Cats Don't Dance
6.9/10
Danny, an ambitious singing/dancing cat, goes to Hollywood and overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
5.6/10
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
6.2/10
Pinocchio and his friends, a glow worm and a marionette, search for a magic music box, putting them in danger from the evil Scalawag and the Emperor of the Night.

The Apple Dumpling Gang

The Apple Dumpling Gang
6.4/10
A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.

Gus

Gus
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 07/07/1976
  • Character: Coach Venner
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
6/10
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along the way!

No Deposit, No Return

No Deposit, No Return
6.3/10
Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of the plan.

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

The Incredible Mr. Limpet
6.5/10
Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German submarines during World War II.

The Shakiest Gun in the West

The Shakiest Gun in the West
6.3/10
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
7.2/10
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.

Hot Lead & Cold Feet

Hot Lead & Cold Feet
6/10
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.

The Reluctant Astronaut

The Reluctant Astronaut
6.3/10
Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.

The Little Troll Prince

The Little Troll Prince
6.9/10
A little troll prince escapes his kingdom, perched atop a tall mountain in Norway, for the human world, where a family teaches him the true meaning of Christmas.

The Muppets Go Hollywood

The Muppets Go Hollywood
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 16/05/1979
  • Character: Himself
In this one-hour special, Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movie. Hosts Dick van Dyke and Rita Moreno interview the wide array of celebrities and Muppets who attend the event. Gary Owens serves as off-camera announcer, and appears on-screen to introduce Miss Piggy.

How to Frame a Figg

How to Frame a Figg
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 01/02/1971
  • Character: Hollis Alexander Figg
Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, they promote Figg to look after things, knowing he'll never catch on. Their plan backfires when Figg becomes self-important and accidentally discovers their plot.

Hermie & Friends: Webster the Scaredy Spider

Hermie & Friends: Webster the Scaredy Spider
7.5/10
A frightened little spider named Webster ventures into the garden. He's a walking encyclopedia of fears and phobias, shocked when the other denizens of the garden seem even more afraid of him than he is of them. His primary coping mechanism consists of praying to God for the courage to fact life in this Christian animated film aimed at young children.

The Prize Fighter

The Prize Fighter
5.6/10
"Bags" the boxer (funnyman Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tough and they must save their gym, so they line up some moneymaking fights. But when Bags and Shake discover that the bouts have been rigged, they end up with their backs to the wall and must fight back -- literally.

Hermie & Friends: Buzby and the Grumble Bees

Hermie & Friends: Buzby and the Grumble Bees
6.6/10
  • Genre: Family
  • Release: 22/09/2007
  • Character: Wormie (voice)
The garden bugs secretly agree to help Buzby show his misbehaving niece and nephew how unpleasant life would be if everyone misbehaved the way they do. After a few encounters with misbehaving bugs-seeing how dangerous, gross, and uncomfortable things can become when no one cleans up after themselves, uses good table manners, or gets enough sleep- Beebee and Buddy decide to practice good behavior.

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