Young caddy Danny (Michael O’Keefe) is trying to raise money for college while working at Bushwood Country Club. As he tries to get the elitist Judge Smails (Ted Knight) to take him under his wing, he is befriended by rich layabout Ty Webb (Chevy Chase). Although Danny has a girlfriend, Maggie (Sarah Holcomb), he tries to make headway with Smails’s randy niece Lacey Underall (Cindy Morgan). Meanwhile, Judge Smails is being driven into apoplectic fits by rude, crude and tacky entrepreneur Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield) whose country club decorum is far from refined, as well as by dim groundskeeper Carl (Bill Murray), who’s on a crusade to eliminate a singularly destructive gopher. Harold Ramis’s first directorial outing is a scattershot affair, its hit or miss gags spread throughout a series of rambling sequences and poorly developed characters. On the surface, a loose narrative framework for a series of gags and improvised bits by ...

  1874. A railroad expansion project is forced to change its route when the crew hits a patch of quicksand. Realizing the new route will bring the railroad through the quiet town of Rock Ridge, corrupt politico Hedley Lamarr (Korman) plots to drive the residents out and snatch the land for himself. When Lamarr’s railroad goons (lead by Pickens and Gilliam) launch several raids on the town’s residents, the simple folk turn to governor LePetomaine (Brooks) for help. The governor, who is in on the plot, sends them Bart (Little), a black railroad worker jailed for hitting Pickens with a shovel. While the townspeople’s reception for the new sheriff turns predictably violent, Bart proves a sharp and resourceful fellow and he makes a quick, unorthodox escape. Joining together with the town drunk and ex-gunfighter the Waco Kid (Wilder), Bart endeavors to save the town from the evil railroad men and hopefully gain some appreciation and ...