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Americathon (1979)
Directed by Neal Israel
“The ultimate spectacle is now a movie.”
Comedy · 1h 24m
In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.
Cast
John Ritter
President Chet Roosevelt
Harvey Korman
Monty Rushmore
Fred Willard
Vincent Vanderhoff
Chief Dan George
Sam Birdwater
Richard Schaal
Jerry
Peter Riegert
Eric McMurkin
Nancy Morgan
Lucy Beth
Meat Loaf
Oklahoma Daredevil, Roy Budnitz
Elvis Costello
The Earl of Manchester
Howard Hesseman
Kip Margolis
Jay Leno
Larry Miller (Poopy Butt)
Peter Marshall
Himself
Crew
- Director
- Neal Israel
- Screenplay
- Michael Mislove, Neal Israel, Monica Johnson
- Director of Photography
- Gerald Hirschfeld
- Original Music Composer
- Tom Scott
- Editor
- David Blangsted
- Producer
- Joe Roth
Details
- Release date
- 1979-08-10
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Lorimar Motion Pictures