Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Jack Weston, and Ted Wass are buddies with a gambling habit and no money, four race track losers who get a chance at a long shot.... but they have to come up with serious money to get in on it, and that means borrowing from loan sharks.
It's a low-key, depressed comedy that uses their broken-down lives as the setting for gags. The movie is populated with comedy pros, including Anne Meara and Edie McClurg as two of their wives, Jonathan Winters as a random passerby, and Stella Stevens as an aborted liaison with Conway. Given the particular and peculiar comedy chops of the people involved, it very much comes down to one's taste.
It's a low-key, depressed comedy that uses their broken-down lives as the setting for gags. The movie is populated with comedy pros, including Anne Meara and Edie McClurg as two of their wives, Jonathan Winters as a random passerby, and Stella Stevens as an aborted liaison with Conway. Given the particular and peculiar comedy chops of the people involved, it very much comes down to one's taste.