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Follow That Dream ()

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A family of ragtag vagabonds sets up a makeshift home on a Florida beach after becoming marooned there, prompting an uptight local bureaucrat to attempt to evict them.
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Toby Kwimper
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Pop Kwimper
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Holly Jones
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Alisha Claypoole
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Carmine
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Nick
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Judge
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H. Arthur King
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George
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Jack (as Frank de Kova)
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Mr. Endicott
Gavin Koon ...
Eddy Bascombe
Robin Koon ...
Teddy Bascombe
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Blackie
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Al (as John Duke)
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Governor (uncredited)
Pam Ogles ...
Ariadne Pennington (uncredited)
Waclaw Rekwart ...
Bartender (uncredited)
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Dealer (uncredited)
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Bank Guard (uncredited)

Directed by

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Gordon Douglas

Written by

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Charles Lederer ... (screenplay)
 
Richard P. Powell ... (novel "Pioneer, Go Home!") (as Richard Powell)
 
Herman Raucher ... (play "Pioneer, Go Home!") (uncredited)

Produced by

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Walter Mirisch ... executive producer
David Weisbart ... producer

Music by

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Hans J. Salter

Cinematography by

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Leo Tover ... director of photography

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William B. Murphy

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Malcolm C. Bert ... (as Mal Bert)

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Fred M. MacLean ... (as Fred McClean)

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Madine Danks ... hairdresser
Daniel C. Striepeke ... makeup artist (as Dan Striepeke)

Production Management

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Herbert E. Mendelson ... production manager
Allen K. Wood ... production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Bert Chervin ... assistant director

Art Department

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Tom Coleman ... property master

Sound Department

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Buddy Myers ... sound
Charles G. Schelling ... sound effects editor
Jack Solomon ... sound

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Tom D. May ... grip (uncredited)

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Ruth Hancock ... wardrobe
Sid Mintz ... wardrobe

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Robert Tracy ... music editor
Hank Garland ... musician: guitar (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Dolores Rubin ... script supervisor

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Tom Parker ... technical advisor (as Col. Tom Parker)
Jean-Étienne Siry ... poster designer (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their "adopted" children - Holly, Ariadne and the twins - start their own little community along a strip of the roadside. The fishing is good and the living is easy until the mob sets up a gambling operation and the state supervisor sics a sexy social worker on the Kwimpers in an effort to take away Ariadne and the twins. Written by A.L.Beneteau

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Also Known As
  • Here Come the Kwimpers (United States)
  • What a Wonderful Life (United States)
  • Pioneer, Go Home (United States)
  • It's a Beautiful Life (United States)
  • Le Shérif de ces dames (France)
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  • 109 min
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Trivia The courtroom scene was filmed in the Citrus County Courthouse in nearby Inverness, Florida. When the courthouse was restored and made into the Old Courthouse Heritage Museum during the 1990s, photographs of the courtroom were scarce, since courtroom photography was not allowed there for many years. With permission from MGM, still photographs of the film were used as reference to recreate the look of the courtroom. As of 2009, the only known visual record of the original courtroom interior is that which is in Follow That Dream (1962). See more »
Goofs When Pop Quimper is supposedly playing the guitar while Toby is singing, in more than one place, his hands move when there is no sound and when there is, they are back where they were originally, making it obvious that he is not really playing. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Elvis in the Movies (1990). See more »
Soundtracks What a Wonderful Life See more »
Quotes Nick: Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five...
Toby Kwimper: You do the multiplication tables too, Nick?
Nick: [Nick rolls his eyes at Toby] Three, two, one.
[Nick's trailer explodes]
Toby Kwimper: Well, I'll be doggone. Your place done blowed up, Nick. It's on fire too.
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