Written by Larry Shue

Directed by Mary Beth Gray

Set in a fishing lodge in rural Georgia, the comedy revolves around two of its guests, Englishmen Froggy LeSuere and Charlie Baker, who is so pathologically shy he is unable to speak. As way of explanation, Froggy claims his companion is the native of an exotic country who doesn't understand the language, and before long Charlie finds himself privy to assorted secrets and scandals freely discussed in front of him by the other visitors, included spoiled Southern belle Catherine Simms, her fiancé Rev. David Lee, a seemingly humble preacher with a dark underside, her younger brother Ellard, a simpleton who attempts to teach Charlie English, and Owen Musser, the racist county property inspector, who plans to oust property owner Betty Meeks and convert the lodge into a meeting place for the Ku Klux Klan.

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