Watch Olly Olly Oxen Free (1978) Free Online

Release Date: 1978

Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Dennis Dimster, Peter Kilman, Kevin McKenzie, Jayne Marie Mansfield, Laura Misch

Categories: Movies, Family, Adventure, Adventure Drama, Children'S/Family, Comedy, Black Comedy

Olly, Olly, Oxen Free (a.k.a. The Great Balloon Adventure or The Great Balloon Race) is a 1978 American black comedy film directed by Richard A. Colla and starring Katharine Hepburn. The screenplay by Eugene Poinc is based on a story by Poinc, Colla, and Maria L. de Ossio. The title is derived from a phrase used in some children's games. Elderly, eccentric Miss Pudd (Hepburn) is the owner of a store she considers an antique shop but most would call a junkyard. She frequently refuses to part with her merchandise because of its sentimental value, but she does agree to sell some items to two... MORE

Olly, Olly, Oxen Free (a.k.a. The Great Balloon Adventure or The Great Balloon Race) is a 1978 American black comedy film directed by Richard A. Colla and starring Katharine Hepburn. The screenplay by Eugene Poinc is based on a story by Poinc, Colla, and Maria L. de Ossio. The title is derived from a phrase used in some children's games. Elderly, eccentric Miss Pudd (Hepburn) is the owner of a store she considers an antique shop but most would call a junkyard. She frequently refuses to part with her merchandise because of its sentimental value, but she does agree to sell some items to two small boys, Alby (Kevin McKenzie) and Chris (Dennis Dimster), who are repairing a hot air balloon that belonged to the older boy's grandfather, a stunt man named The Great Sandusky. They plan to take the balloon aloft to celebrate the man's birthday. When the balloon is accidentally launched, untethered, with the two boys and their English sheepdog in the basket, Miss Pudd chases after them in her antique car, and manages to wind up riding the anchor dangling from the bottom of the basket. After she is pulled up, the balloon continues to drift south to San Francisco, where a police helicopter LESS