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Writer Skip Donahue (Gene Wilder) and actor Harry Monroe (Richard Pryor) leave New York and head to Hollywood for a better life after both being sacked from their respective jobs. Along the way, they stop in Arizona and, to make some much needed cash, perform a song and dance act at a local bank – dressed as woodpeckers. However, during a break, two men steal the costumes and rob the bank. Harry and Skip are quickly arrested for the crime, found guilty and given a 125-year sentence. In prison, they team up with fellow inmates Rory Schultebrand (Georg Stanford Brown), Jesus Ramirez (Miguel Ángel Suárez) and Grossberger (Erland van Lidth). After the prison Warden, Walter Beatty (Nicolas Coster), discovers that Skip has a talent for rodeo riding, he asks him to enter the prison’s annual rodeo competition. Skip initially refuses, but later accepts when Harry, Rory and Jesus convince him that they can use the opportunity to escape from prison.