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      How to Frame a Figg

      G 1971 1h 43m Comedy List
      Reviews 72% 500+ Ratings Audience Score The city commissioner of Dalton (Bill Zuckert) has been embezzling money from public funds, and now he's worried that the city's bookkeepers will find out. So he replaces the three best number crunchers with LEO, an accounting computer, and promotes the incompetent Hollis Figg (Don Knotts) to feed the machine the raw data. Unfortunately for the commissioner, Figg's promotion has gone to his head, and it isn't long before he discovers what's been going on. Read More Read Less

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      Ofran Du Freep Los Angeles Free Press How to Frame a Figg is a perfectly acceptable... but one fears that the Knotts' series has already begun an old Universal course, a la Pa and Ma Kettle. Jan 10, 2020 Full Review Brian Costello Common Sense Media Campy Don Knotts comedy with some juvenile humor. Rated: 3/5 Mar 28, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member if u like late 50's - 60's nostalgia TV - andy griffith, gomer pyle, bewitched, mchales navy, beverly hillbillies and a host of well recognized actors. it's campy,cheesy, some warm moments, empathic moments, and no foul mouths, - you'll like this and most Don Knott's movies. this WAS family drive-in movie fare with kids playing on the drive- in swing sets, trampolines, see saw and jungle jims. adults with card tables and folding chairs playing gin waiting for sundown. bring ur own root beer cooler, chips, pretzles, and pop corn. i try to judge a movie with some consideration of the time and audience it was intended to entertain. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Universal thought they could throw Knotts in anything, and his Barney Fife personna would ensure a hit. Even Knotts couldn't prevail over their throwaway, abominable scripts. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member It's funny how one innocent bystander can get caught up in the middle of an embezzling scheme. That's what happens to Hollis Figg. The late and funny Don Knotts in another one of his many comedic entries. A computer LEO has its creators, number crunchers, and the city commissioner cover up their illegal money activities by giving a promotion to the last person they expected..Figg himself. He's completely clueless of the embezzlement but catches on later the more raw data he feeds it. But can he expose the commissioner and his men? He also gets teamed with the Yvonne Craig's Gloriana Hastings which makes diner waitress Ema quite jealous. Perhaps all the success and handling a giant position is interfering with his focus. But he's determined to clear his name. This feels immensely like a Disney movie. It's still wacky, silly, and light. That ending however really could've wrapped up a lot better though. Knotts will always be remembered though for his comic timing. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member "How to Frame a Figg" is an inept comedy on almost every level. A childish, inert script (the only one I've ever heard repeatedly use the word "poophead") that never goes far enough in its absurdity to be truly hilarious. The pacing is horrendously bad, and set pieces and gags are unoriginal and predictable. Don Knotts has good chemistry with his romantic interest in the film, and the two are appealing leads who manage a couple of laughs here and there, but it's not even close to enough to save a lifeless screenplay. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Ditzy but pleasing farce in which Knotts is at his most likeable (not always the case.) Forgot how hot Elaine Joyce was in her hey day. Knotts plays and earnest and hapless accountant for city government who makes the perfect patsy for a corrupt City Council. Hijinks ensue involving Knotts' trademark jittery slapstick; a best friend who is both more and less clueless than Knotts himself; the rivalry between a hot girlfriend and a hot secretary; a stuck bowling ball; a cross-dressing granny; and a computer in a coffin. Even the sound track is almost stridently cutesy and inoffensive. This had a bit of a sixties-sitcom feel to it, and the occasional mild sexual inuendo, while most likely somewhat blush-enducing for its time, is virtually harmless these days. Recommended for the whole family on some rainy day, in the van on a road trip, or on your iPad while flying on vacation. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Funny, but the confusing plot twists make this film not as good as it could've been. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis The city commissioner of Dalton (Bill Zuckert) has been embezzling money from public funds, and now he's worried that the city's bookkeepers will find out. So he replaces the three best number crunchers with LEO, an accounting computer, and promotes the incompetent Hollis Figg (Don Knotts) to feed the machine the raw data. Unfortunately for the commissioner, Figg's promotion has gone to his head, and it isn't long before he discovers what's been going on.
      Director
      Alan Rafkin
      Rating
      G
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Sep 2, 2003
      Runtime
      1h 43m