Ernest Rides Again

Ernest Rides Again is a 1993 comedy film written and directed by John R. Cherry III and starring Jim Varney. It opens with the song "There Once Was A Man Named Worrell". It is the sixth film to feature the character Ernest P. Worrell, and the last to be released theatrically. Its grossing number was $1,433,496. In this movie, Ernest and a history professor discover a long-lost Revolutionary War cannon and must protect it from others who want the precious jewels hidden inside. The film received a PG rating from the MPAA. Its budget was $7,000,000. It was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia.... Ernest, who is working as a janitor at a local college, befriends a history professor named Dr. Abner Melon . After discovering an antique metal plate near a construction site, Ernest shows it to the professor who believes that it came from a Revolutionary War cannon called "Goliath." Dr. Melon had previously been ridiculed by his peers for theorizing that the Crown Jewels of England were actually located inside the long-lost cannon. The two begin to search for the artifact near the construction site and eventually locate it inside an abandoned mine.
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