Movie Description:
Ryan O`Neal teams up with hisdaughterTatum in this very bright, very warm, and very funny period film for which Tatum won an Oscar in her first filmrole. Ryan O`Neal plays the smooth- talking con man Moses Pray, driving through depression-era Kansas with a carloadof deluxe bibles, a gold toothbehind a convincing smile, and a list ofnewly widowed prospectsfor his line. Addie is a cigarette-smoking, nine-year-old orphan who hooks up with Moses andmanages to show the master con man a trick or two. Madeline Kahn gives a funny, neuroticperformance as Trixie Delight, who goes along for the rideuntil Addie determines that Trixie mightcome between Addie and Moses- which, obviously, cannot happen.