List of the best Don Knotts movies: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken(1966), The Reluctant Astronaut(1967), The Shakiest Gun in the West(1968), The Love God?(1969), How to Frame a Figg(1971), The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again(1979), Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo(1977), The Apple Dumpling Gang(1975), Move Over, Darling(1963), Wake Me When It's Over(1960), Quints(2000), Pleasantville(1998) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1966
90 Minutes
Don Knotts Joan Staley Liam Redmond Dick Sargent Skip Homeier Reta Shaw Lurene Tuttle Philip Ober Harry Hickox Charles Lane Jesslyn Fax
reporter editor love interest wealthy man coward typesetter lighthearted madcap amusing cheeky small town newsroom mansion ghosts fear haunted houses aspirations mistaken identity mystery underdog
A timid typesetter hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a reporter - until he decides to solve a murder mystery and ends up spending a fright-filled night in a haunted house.
Comedy
USA
1967
101 Minutes
Roy Fleming
Don Knotts Leslie Nielsen Joan Freeman Arthur O'Connell Jesse White Jeanette Nolan Frank McGrath
neurotic father mother astronaut sweetheart aunt lighthearted positive amusing madcap nasa facility small town fair house spaceship space race misunderstanding lie father/son relationship phobias
A NASA janitor is sent into space.
Comedy, Western
USA
1968
101 Minutes
Don Knotts Barbara Rhoades Jackie Coogan Don "Red" Barry Ruth McDevitt Frank McGrath Terry Wilson Carl Ballantine Noriyuki "Pat" Morita Robert Yuro Herb Voland
dentist bandit smuggler indian amusing lighthearted wild philadelphia american west mistaken identity native americans unlikely allies courage frontier life transformation love pursuit 1870s
A pardoned stagecoach robber, becomes government agent and marries a naive unsuspecting east-coast dentist in order to join a wagon train and catch the smugglers who have been selling guns to the Indians.
Comedy
France|USA
1969
101 Minutes
Abner Audubon Peacock IV
Don Knotts Anne Francis Edmond O'Brien James Gregory Maureen Arthur Maggie Peterson B.S. Pully Jesslyn Fax Jacques Aubuchon Marjorie Bennett Ruth McDevitt
bird watcher editor publisher pornographer fiancée liberal lighthearted amusing office courtroom family home obscenity publishing mistaken identity love triangle unlikely hero underdog transformation 1960s
A secretary takes her boss's car for the holiday in the Mediterranean, oddly retracing a journey she has not taken, and is recognized by people she has not met before. When a body turns up ... See full summary »
Comedy
1971
103 Minutes
Hollis Alexander Figg
Don Knotts Joe Flynn Edward Andrews Elaine Joyce Yvonne Craig Frank Welker Parker Fennelly Bill Zuckert
bookkeeper commissioner waitress janitor embezzler bumbler amusing playful madcap united states small town city hall diner bowling alley embezzlement frame-up conspiracy fraud investigation computers
A corrupt mayor (Edward Andrews) and city council try to hide their shenanigans by framing a city-hall bookkeeper (Don Knotts).
Kids & Family, Comedy, Western
USA
1979
88 Minutes
Theodore
Tim Conway Don Knotts Tim Matheson Kenneth Mars Elyssa Davalos Jack Elam Robert Pine Harry Morgan Ruth Buzzi Audrey Totter Richard X. Slattery
outlaw partner marshal major daughter captain winsome cheery playful amusing american west small town fort train bank mistaken identity fugitives romance undercover operations bank robbery
The adventures of two idiotic outlaw wannabees, Amos and Theodore.
Kids & Family, Comedy
USA
1977
105 Minutes
Wheely Applegate
Dean Jones Julie Summers Don Knotts Jacques Marin Roy Kinnear Bernard Fox Eric Braeden François Lalande Alan Caillou Laurie Main
herbie driver mechanic pretty woman jewel thief playful amusing france monte carlo, monaco paris countryside car racing road trip romance americans abroad theft rivalry adventure pursuit
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. Unbeknownst to Herbie's driver, thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
Comedy, Western
USA
1975
100 Minutes
Theodore Ogelvie
Bill Bixby Susan Clark Tim Conway Don Knotts David Wayne Slim Pickens Harry Morgan John McGiver Don Knight Clay O'Brien
orphan gambler stagecoach driver bandit murderer sheriff playful endearing spirited quake city, calif. bank mine boomtown house stagecoach hidden treasure inheritance greed marriage of convenience family dysfunction
Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.
Romance
USA
1963
103 Minutes
Shoe clerk
Doris Day James Garner Polly Bergen Thelma Ritter Fred Clark Don Knotts Elliott Reid Edgar Buchanan John Astin Pat Harrington Jr.
husband wife newlywed cheeky witty california house hotel car husband/wife relationship reunion plane crash love rivalry adventure 1960s
After having been lost at sea for several years, a missing wife thought long dead returns just after her husband has remarried.
Comedy
1960
126 Minutes
Sgt. Percy Warren
Ernie Kovacs Dick Shawn Margo Moore Jack Warden Nobu McCarthy Don Knotts Robert Strauss Noreen Nash Parley Baer Marvin Kaplan Robert Emhardt
A GI (Dick Shawn) talks his captain (Ernie Kovacs) into building an island resort out of war surplus.
Kids & Family, Comedy
2000
83 Minutes
Gov. Healy
Kimberly J. Brown Daniel Roebuck Elizabeth Morehead Shadia Simmons Jake Epstein Don Knotts
teenager teen girl parent baby sibling mother engaging heartwarming playful charming lighthearted melodramatic house family home family relationships twins quintuplets family dysfunction sibling rivalry sibling relationship
The life of an only child (Kimberly J. Brown) changes dramatically when her mother gives birth to quintuplets.
Comedy
USA
1998
123 Minutes
TV Repairman
Tobey Maguire Jeff Daniels Joan Allen William H. Macy J.T. Walsh Reese Witherspoon Don Knotts Paul Walker Marlee Shelton Jane Kaczmarek
teenager sister father mother repairman bully lighthearted creative dreamy small town household repair shop television teen angst small-town life empowerment family sexual repression growing up transformation
Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves in a 1950s sitcom, where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.
Comedy
USA
1996
93 Minutes
Principal Kokelar
Rick Moranis Tom Arnold Julianne Phillips Carol Kane Jeffrey Tambor Curtis Armstrong Faith Prince Tony Pierce Don Knotts Blake Bashoff Cody McMains
nerd bully son teacher principal love interest endearing outlandish spirited lighthearted minnesota classroom school house gym bullying emotional abuse practical jokes childhood trauma homecoming
A writer returns to his hometown where he faces the childhood nemesis whose life he ultimately ruined, only the bully wants to relive their painful past by torturing him once again.