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Release Date: 1968
Cast: Fred Clark, Richard Kiel, Alexandra Hay, Jackie Gleason, Austin Pendleton, Cesar Romero, Peter Lawford, Stacy King, Mickey Rooney, Roman Gabriel, Burgess Meredith, Arnold Stang ...MORE
Cast: Fred Clark, Richard Kiel, Alexandra Hay, Jackie Gleason, Austin Pendleton, Cesar Romero, Peter Lawford, Stacy King, Mickey Rooney, Roman Gabriel, Burgess Meredith, Arnold Stang, Frank Gorshin, Slim Pickens, Carol Channing, Donyale Luna, Groucho Marx, Michael Constantine, George Raft, Doro Merande, John Phillip Law, Frankie Avalon ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Crime, Escape Film, Comedy, Crime Fiction, Parody, Crime Comedy
Skidoo is an American comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jackie Gleason and Carol Channing, written by Doran William Cannon and released by Paramount Pictures on December 19, 1968. The screenplay satirizes late 1960s lifestyle and its creature comforts, technology, anti-technology, hippies, free love and then-prevalent use of the mind-altering drug LSD.
Along with top-billed Gleason and Channing, Skidoo also stars (alphabetically listed) Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark (who died on December 5, two weeks before the film's release), Michael Constantine, Frank Gorshin, John Phillip... MORE
Skidoo is an American comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jackie Gleason and Carol Channing, written by Doran William Cannon and released by Paramount Pictures on December 19, 1968. The screenplay satirizes late 1960s lifestyle and its creature comforts, technology, anti-technology, hippies, free love and then-prevalent use of the mind-altering drug LSD.
Along with top-billed Gleason and Channing, Skidoo also stars (alphabetically listed) Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark (who died on December 5, two weeks before the film's release), Michael Constantine, Frank Gorshin, John Phillip Law, Peter Lawford, Burgess Meredith, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney and Groucho Marx playing "God" (making, at age 77, his final film appearance). Singer-songwriter Nilsson, who wrote the score and receives credit as a member of the cast, appears in a few brief scenes with Fred Clark, as both portray prison tower guards swaying to Nilsson's music while under the influence of LSD.
As a cartoon character dressed in prison stripes (and holding a peace-logo flower which turns into a tiny parasol and then a helicopter blade) executes a few dance steps to the music of Nilsson's Skidoo theme, LESS
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