There is a very very Strange movie coming this Friday night/Saturday morning to Turner Classic Movies.
It's called Skidoo.
Skidoo is a very weird weird movie. It has not been released on DVD, because I think it's Director's family, Otto Preminger, is really really embarrassed by it. It sort of killed his film career--he was a noted director who worked on classic films as "The Man with the Golden Arm" and "Exodus". Reportedly, Preminger was trying to get in touch with the 60's movement (as well as satirize it). Well, Wikipedia describes it (and its stars) better.
This was Groucho Marx's last movie.
For those of you in another country or without access to TCM, well, part 1 of Skidoo can be found here, and the whole thing can be seen on YouTube, but a lot of the really weird parts of it begin at this point.
Don't say I didn't warn you. One line of bad dialog that cracked me up--"If I take some of that stuff, maybe I can stop raping people".
There's also a football team with bare butts and dancing trashcans...
Oh--and at the end of the movie the entire end credits are sung.
It's called Skidoo.
Skidoo is a very weird weird movie. It has not been released on DVD, because I think it's Director's family, Otto Preminger, is really really embarrassed by it. It sort of killed his film career--he was a noted director who worked on classic films as "The Man with the Golden Arm" and "Exodus". Reportedly, Preminger was trying to get in touch with the 60's movement (as well as satirize it). Well, Wikipedia describes it (and its stars) better.
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Skidoo is a 1968 comedy film starring Jackie Gleason and Groucho Marx, directed by Otto Preminger, and released by Paramount Pictures, with storyline by Doran William Cannon. The movie featured a cast of mostly stars and veteran character actors, including Carol Channing, Cesar Romero, Frankie Avalon, Peter Lawford, Burgess Meredith, George Raft, Richard Kiel, Arnold Stang, Frank Gorshin, Mickey Rooney, Slim Pickens, Stacy King, newcomers John Phillip Law, Alexandra Hay, Donyale Luna and Austin Pendleton, Groucho in his final movie role, and a score (arranged and conducted by George Tipton) by singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, who also appeared briefly in the movie. It was an "acid comedy", with elements of free love and the hippie movement, and satires of technology, anti-technology, modern times and creature comforts.
This was Groucho Marx's last movie.
For those of you in another country or without access to TCM, well, part 1 of Skidoo can be found here, and the whole thing can be seen on YouTube, but a lot of the really weird parts of it begin at this point.
Don't say I didn't warn you. One line of bad dialog that cracked me up--"If I take some of that stuff, maybe I can stop raping people".
There's also a football team with bare butts and dancing trashcans...Oh--and at the end of the movie the entire end credits are sung.
