to the Super Bowl. The stress of his rescue, however, prompts Gus to collapse on the field as he's about to kick the game-winning field goal, forcing Andy to pick up the ball and run it into the endzone for a touchdown to win the game in the fourth quarter. Cast Ed Asner as Hank Cooper Don Knotts as Coach Venner Gary Grimes as Andy Petrovic Tim Conway as Crankcase Liberty Williams as Debbie Kovac Dick Van Patten as Cal Wilson Ronnie Schell as Joe Barnsdale Bob Crane as Pepper Johnny Unitas as Himself Dick Butkus as Rob Cargil Harold Gould as Charles Gwynn Tom Bosley as Spinner Titos Vandis as Seth Petrovic Hanna Hertelendy Molly Petrovic Liam Dunn as Dr. Morgan Virginia O'Brien as Reporter Kenneth Tobey as Asst. Warden Irwin Charone as Hotel Clerk Timothy Brown as Calvin Barnes Jackson Bostwick as Stjepan Petrovic John Orchard as Pemberton Captain Richard Kiel as Tall Man Henry Slate as Fan Larry McCormick as N.Y. Broadcaster Larry Burrell as Locker Room Announcer Danny Wells as Referee James Almanzar as Coach Garcia Milton Frome as Lukom Iris Adrian as Fan's Wife Bryan O'Byrne as Grocery Store Manager Jack Manning as Mayor James Brown as Mammoth Coach Warde Donovan as Butcher Jeanne Bates as Nurse Dick Enberg as Atoms' Announcer George Putnam as TV Interviewer Stu Nahan as L.A. Sportscaster Production This is the only one of their six films together where Don Knotts and Tim Conway do not share any scenes. Johnny Unitas appears as a commentator with Bob Crane (in his last feature film appearance) supplying the play-by-play during the football broadcasts. Dick Enberg did the play-by-play for the local games. Gus would be the final feature film for Bob Crane as well as the last film in the promising, yet short career of then 20-year-old Grimes, who retired from acting (except for a single television role in 1983) after this film. This was also the final film appearance of Virginia O'Brien. Reception Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four and wrote, "Two different kinds of movies have been coming out of the Walt Disney organization in the last few years: Inventive, entertaining fantasies like Escape to Witch Mountain and The Island at the Top of the World, and dreary retreads of tired old Disney formulas. 'Gus,' alas, is in the retread category." Richard Eder of The New