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Cold Turkey (1971)
Directed by Norman Lear
“See the hilarious BATTLE OF THE BUTT!”
Comedy · 1h 39m
Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
Cast
Dick Van Dyke
Rev. Clayton Brooks
Pippa Scott
Natalie Brooks
Tom Poston
Mr. Stopworth
Edward Everett Horton
Hiram C. Grayson
Bob Elliott
Hugh Upson / David Chetley / Sandy Van Andy
Vincent Gardenia
Mayor Wappler
Barnard Hughes
Dr. Proctor
Graham Jarvis
Amos Bush
Jean Stapleton
Mrs. Wappler
Paul Benedict
Zen Buddhist
Judith Lowry
Odie Turman
Bob Newhart
Merwin Wren
Crew
- Director
- Norman Lear
- Screenplay
- Norman Lear
- Novel
- Margaret Rau, Neil Rau
- Director of Photography
- Charles F. Wheeler
- Original Music Composer
- Randy Newman
- Editor
- John C. Horger
- Producer
- Norman Lear
Details
- Release date
- 1971-02-19
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Tandem Productions, DFI
- Box office
- $11,000,000