As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he's broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid "growing up to be a cotton picker all my life," begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.

Starring:

Alexa Kenin, Barry Corbin, Bette Ford, Charles Cyphers, Clint Eastwood, DeForest Covan, Gary Grubbs, George Orrison, Hugh Warden, Jerry Hardin, Joe Regalbuto, John McIntire, John Russell, Linda Hopkins, Lloyd Nelson, Macon McCalman, Marty Robbins, Matt Clark, Merle Travis, Porter Wagoner, Ray Price, Robert V Barron, Roy Jenson, Rozelle Gayle, Shelly Wes

Genre:

Drama, Comedy, Music