The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) is a classic Disney Western comedy that follows a straight-laced Boston butler, Eric Griffin (Roddy McDowall), as he stows away on a ship to the California Gold Rush to rescue his young master, Jack. Based on the novel By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman, the film is known for its "fish-out-of-water" humor as Griffin eventually becomes an accidental prizefighting legend nicknamed "Bullwhip". The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) - IMDb