Dick Van Dyke
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Cold Turkey is a 1971 satirical black comedy film starring Dick Van Dyke and a long list of comedic actors. The film was written for the screen and produced by Norman Lear, who also directed the film, marking his directorial debut. It remains his only directorial feature film credit. Cold Turkey was based on the unpublished novel I'm Giving ...
- $11,000,000
- Randy Newman
- Norman Lear
Feb 19, 1971 · Cold Turkey: Directed by Norman Lear. With Dick Van Dyke, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston, Edward Everett Horton. Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days.
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- Comedy
- Norman Lear
- 1971-02-19
Both of them assume as a matter of course that the human being is powered with unworthy motives, especially greed. "A New Leaf" gets a little sentimental at the end, but not too much, and "Cold Turkey" ends with the scoundrels being shot by their own cigarette lighter. The movie, as everybody knows by now, concerns an attempt by a small town in ...
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The following month United Artists released the biting satire Cold Turkey (1971), which Lear had produced and written, and which also ranks as the only feature film (to date) he has directed. Executive-produced by Lear's television partner Bud Yorkin, the film is the blackest of black comedies, and takes on numerous obvious targets such as ...
Cold Turkey (1971) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ... Oscars Cannes Film Festival Asian Pacific American Heritage ...
Synopsis. Reverend Brooks leads the 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.
- 99 min
Amidst a media frenzy, Eagle Rock, Iowa accepts the challenge while the company's PR man tries to sabotage the effort. Reverend Brooks leads the 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 ...
