Skidoo
It takes two to skidoo.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 19, 2011
- Originally Released: 1968
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, John Phillip Law, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Austin Pendleton & Groucho Marx | |
Performer: | Fred Clark, Michael Constantine, Peter Lawford, Burgess Meredith, George Raft, Frank Gorshin, Arnold Stang, Slim Pickens, Robert Donner & Richard Kiel | |
Directed by | Otto Preminger | |
Edited by | George R. Rohrs | |
Screenwriting by | Doran William Cannon | |
Composition by | Harry Nilsson | |
Cinematography by | Leon Shamroy | |
Produced by | Otto Preminger | |
Director of Photography: | Leon Shamroy |
Entertainment Reviews:
This is a real treat.
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Film4
One of those movies that defies labels like "good" or "bad" or "insane" or "genius," Skidoo conveys the generation gap of the late 1960s in a singularly bizarre way.
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Movies.com
The scattershot and hectic comedy conveys Preminger's sense that the world he knows is coming apart at the seams; he does more than depict or caricature the cultural shifts and the generational clashes of the times-he finds new cinematic forms for them.
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New Yorker
Rating: 1/5 --
The movie, which has the form of comedy, is 98 minutes of disconnected story-conference ideas.
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Preminger's acid trip, and a hilarious piece of vintage hipsterism.
Film Threat
... Keystone Mobsters, with career criminals and fun-loving hippies colliding in a comedy of flower power, slapstick and psychedelia...
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MSN.com
Rating: 2/4 --
Preminger seems unable to invest his film with any lightness or spontaneity.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Producer and director Otto Preminger reportedly experimented with LSD in the late 60's, which inspired him to make this notorious comedy in which Jackie Gleason plays Tony, a mid-level gangster and former hired killer not very happy with his life. He bickers a lot with his wife Flo (Carol Channing) and isn't sure what to make of his daughter Darlene (Alexandra Hay), especially since she started dating a hippie named Stash (John Phillip Law). Two of Tony's superiors, Angie (Frankie Avalon) and Hechy (Cesar Romero), order him to get arrested, go to prison and once behind bars whack "Blue Chips" Packard (Mickey Rooney). Though he's not pleased with the idea, Tony grudgingly goes along, but once inside, he's accidentally dosed with LSD by counterculture activist the Professor (Austin Pendleton). His consciousness expanded by his trip, Tony leaves his violent lifestyle behind him and with the Professor's help plans an escape after turning the entire prison population on to acid. Certainly your only opportunity to see Groucho Marx play a character named "God," not to mention a supporting cast that includes Slim Pickens, Peter Lawford, George Raft, Frank Gorshin and Arnold Stang, SKIDOO is also remembered as the film in which Harry Nilsson sang all the credits.
Keywords:
Campy
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Drugs
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Prison / Prisoners
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Self-Discovery
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Assassination
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Escape
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Crime
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Parody
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Mafia
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Gangsters
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Hit Men
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Friendships
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Hostages
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Food
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Assassins
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Criminals
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 22,633
- UPC: 887090026604
- Shipping Weight: 0.20/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item