Long-time losers Skip Donahue (Gene Wilder) & Harry Monroe (Richard Pryor) are hired to wear woodpecker costumes to help promote a bank's opening, only to be wrongfully imprisoned when a pair of criminals, wearing identical outfits, rob the bank. Their claims of innocence ignored, Skip & Harry are forced to adapt to prison life, & end up being persuaded to ride for the Warden in the local rodeo show. Directed by Sidney Poitier.