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Release Date: 1968 Cast: John Phillip Law, Austin Pendleton, Groucho Marx, Jackie Gleason, Frankie Avalon, Doro Merande, Peter Lawford, Mickey Rooney, Michael Constantine, Cesar Romero, Alexandra Hay, Burgess Meredith ...MORE
Cast: John Phillip Law, Austin Pendleton, Groucho Marx, Jackie Gleason, Frankie Avalon, Doro Merande, Peter Lawford, Mickey Rooney, Michael Constantine, Cesar Romero, Alexandra Hay, Burgess Meredith, Donyale Luna, Fred Clark, Arnold Stang, Frank Gorshin, Richard Kiel, George Raft, Slim Pickens, Roman Gabriel, Stacy King, Carol Channing ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Parody, Comedy, Crime Fiction, Crime Comedy, Escape Film 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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