Cold Turkey (1971)
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61% of users liked it
(908 ratings)
This comedy is notable as the final onscreen appearance (non-speaking) of Edward Everett Horton, a staple comic supporting actor from the early '30s onward. Dick Van Dyke plays an ambitious small-town minister who rallies the whole town to meet a challenge bet by a tobacco corporation. Cooked up… More This comedy is notable as the final onscreen appearance (non-speaking) of Edward Everett Horton, a staple comic supporting actor from the early '30s onward. Dick Van Dyke plays an ambitious small-town minister who rallies the whole town to meet a challenge bet by a tobacco corporation. Cooked up by the tobacco company's public relations head (Bob Newhart), the bet is an offer to pay twenty five million dollars ($25,000,000.00) to any town that can quit smoking for the required period of time. Barnard Hughes is Dr. Proctor, a heart surgeon who has to be physically restrained to prevent him from smoking. Jean Stapleton is the mayor's wife, who swells visibly as her eating replaces cigarettes. Edward Everett Horton is eloquent as the mysterious tobacco tycoon who comes to observe the chaos first-hand. There is lots of frantic action as the townsfolk try to win the prize, and the tobacco company (which has no intention of paying off the bet) works to sabotage their efforts. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Directed By
- Norman Lear
- Written By
- Norman Lear
- Genres
- Comedy
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Feb 19, 1971 Wide
- Studio
- United Artists
Critic Reviews
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Douglas Pratt, DVDLaser
at its best it is amusingly frantic and uses the cast in a number of effective characterizations
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Cast
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Pippa Scott
as Natalie Brooks
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Bob Newhart
as Merwin Wren
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Paul Benedict
as Zen Buddhist
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Eric Boles
as Dennis
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Sudie Bond
as Cissy
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Helen Page Camp
as Mrs. Watson
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Barbara Cason
as Letitia
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Bob Elliott
as TV Personality Bob
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Vincent Gardenia
as Mayor
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Ray Goulding
as TV Personality Ray
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Jack Grimes
as TV Stage Manager
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Edward Everett Horton
as Hiram C. Grayson
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Barnard Hughes
as Dr. Procter
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Graham Jarvis
as Amos Bush
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Harvey Jason
as Hypnotist
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Gloria Le Roy
as The Hooker
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Judith Lowry
as Odie
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George Mann
as Bishop Manley
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Woodrow Parfrey
as Tobacco Executive
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Tom Poston
as Mr. Stopworth
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Peggy Rea
as Mrs. Proctor
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Walter Sande
as Tobacco Executive
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Simon Scott
as Mr. Kandiss
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Jean Stapleton
as Mrs. Wrappler
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Dick Van Dyke
as Rev. Clayton Brooks
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M. Emmet Walsh
as Art
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Raymond Kark
as Homer Watson
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Charles Pinney
as Col. Galloway
