Brothers O'Toole

Brothers O'Toole (1973)

The Brothers O'Toole get into trouble faster than you can say...

The O'Toole Brothers are Eastern con men, exceptionally good at talking their way out of tight situations. When they ride into Molybdenum, Colorado, not suspecting the riches beneath the streets, they turn the sleepy mining town upside-down for their search for the gold. High-spirited hijinks ensue, with the brothers involved in everything from stolen gambling equipment to a "belchin', cussin' and spittin' " contest.

Date of release
1973-05-16
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Western, Comedy
Director
Richard Erdman

Casting

Interesting facts

The Brothers O'Toole is a 1973 comedy Western film starring John Astin, Pat Carroll, and Lee Meriwether. The film was Astin's next film after the success of Evil Roy Slade, another comedy Western. It was Charles Sellier's first successful feature film at the beginning his career as a producer, and also cinematographer Allen Daviau's first feature film.

Production

The primary business of the production company CVD Studios, previously known as Creative Visual Dynamics, was producing television advertisements and short films. The Brothers O'Toole was the first of four feature films planned. The film had an alternate title Eureka! It's Molly B'Damn.

The main filming location was the theme park Buckskin Joe, near Cañon City, Colorado, on a budget of $300,000. Filming began in October 1972, was finished in February 1973, and its world premier occurred in Denver, Colorado on 16 May 1973.

This was the first successful film produced by Charles Sellier, then 30 years old, at the beginning of his career as film producer. He personally supervised the entire production of The Brothers O'Toole on location, saying about the filming, "we don't fake anything. When we do rain scenes we get right out in a downpour to do them; when it's a mud scene, we all get into the mud!"

Cinematographer Allen Daviau had previously worked on only short films including Mooch Goes to Hollywood with director Richard Erdman. He worked with Erdman again to shoot The Brothers O'Toole, also Daviau's first feature film.

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees sued the production company CVD for filming with a partially non-union crew while using the union emblem in the film's release, resulting in the emblem being removed from all copies of the film.

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