Watched the movie again today for what was probably the dozenth-time.  What a great flick.

    One of the great lines of all-time (in my opinion) practically opens the movie.  The Flim-Flam Man (Scott) and Curly (Sarrazin) - both on the run - are returning to Curly's idyllic hide-out, a caboose overturned near an old railway track in the woods.  The Flim-Flam Man says "...it's a mighty pretty spot lad.  Yep, millions of people slave their lives away just to spend a couple weeks a year in a place like this".  Quite true, and it really makes me wonder today what is really important to my workaholic American countrymen.
   The movie, while quite funny and entertaining, is impressively full of many of the small ironies of life and now that I think about it, it really reminds me of one of my favorite novels, Steinbeck's 'Cannery Row'.
   Harry Morgan's Sheriff is hilarious and Slim Pickens plays a memorable country bumpkin.

   I saw this movie at a very young age (thanks KPLR-TV!) and for better or for worse, I think it really affected my outlook.

   Great escapist fiction, I really recommend this movie.  Watch it!

   This is the IMDB link; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061678/