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

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten42%

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Total Count: 12

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 436
Rating: B -- A relic for the ages that puts a punctuation mark on the times. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jan 6, 2008
It's worth seeing just for the sheer jaw-dropping amazement of it all. Full Review
Austin Chronicle
Oct 23, 2007
SKIDOO is arguably the most bizarre topical farce made in Hollywood since the 1932 W. C. Fields vehicle MILLION DOLLAR LEGS.
New York Times
Jan 23, 2015
Rating: 2/4 -- Preminger seems unable to invest his film with any lightness or spontaneity. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 22, 2005
Rating: 4/5 -- Preminger's acid trip, and a hilarious piece of vintage hipsterism.
Film Threat
Oct 17, 2005
This is a real treat. Full Review
Film4
Oct 22, 2005
Rating: 1/5 -- The movie, which has the form of comedy, is 98 minutes of disconnected story-conference ideas.
New York Times
Oct 22, 2005

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 22,652
  • UPC: 887090026604
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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