Waterhole No. 3

Waterhole #3
Directed byWilliam A. Graham
Written byJoseph T. Steck
Robert R. Young
Produced byOwen Crump
Joseph T. Steck
Ken Wales
Blake Edwards
StarringJames Coburn
Carroll O'Connor
Margaret Blye[1]
CinematographyRobert Burks
Edited byWarren Low
Music byDave Grusin
Production
company
Geoffrey Productions
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • November 17, 1967 (1967-11-17)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2,700,000 (US/ Canada)[2]

Waterhole #3 is a 1967 Western comedy film directed by William A. Graham. It is considered to be a comic remake of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

The film stars James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor and Margaret Blye. The cast also includes Bruce Dern, James Whitmore, Claude Akins, Joan Blondell and Timothy Carey, and it was the last film shot by Robert Burks before his death in 1968. Roger Miller performs the theme song and performs snippets of music throughout the film as a form of narration. The film is a Blake Edwards production.

  1. ^ "Waterhole #3 (1967)". Archived from the original on May 27, 2020.
  2. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, 8 January 1969 p 15. Please note this figure is a rental accruing to distributors.