United States

A comedy romp with two of America's wildest funnymen... Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. It's really a case of poor boys make good - or at least try to. Playright [sic] and actor, Wilder and Pryor are out of work and penniless. They decide they have had enough of Broadway and set off to make their fortunes and find freedom down South. On the way, their funds get so low that they have to find work - as singing, dancing "woodpeckers" promoting a bank. Plagued by bad luck, thieves steal their costumes and rob the bank, and guess who gets the blame and jail. And this is only the first quarter of the film. Whacky laughs, riotous situations, thrills and spills make this one of the looniest mad-cap escapades ever.