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Skidoo

Play trailer Poster for Skidoo R,  1968,  1h 37m,  Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 42% 12 Reviews Tomatometer 39% 250+ Ratings Popcornmeter
42% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 39% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings
Tough Tony Banks (Jackie Gleason) is a malcontent mobster who is perpetually at odds with his wife, Flo (Carol Channing). When Tony receives an unusual assignment from a crime lord known as God (Groucho Marx), he reluctantly accepts and must get himself arrested and incarcerated with the sole purpose of killing an imprisoned convict. Tony's mission gets completely derailed, however, when he accidentally takes acid and has a mind-expanding experience that leads to an ambitious escape plan.

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Richard Brody The New Yorker Mar 5, 2018
The scattershot and hectic comedy conveys Preminger's sense that the world he knows is coming apart at the seams; he does more than depict or caricature the cultural shifts and the generational clashes of the times-he finds new cinematic forms for them. Go to Full Review
Alonso Duralde Movies.com Jun 4, 2012
One of those movies that defies labels like "good" or "bad" or "insane" or "genius," Skidoo conveys the generation gap of the late 1960s in a singularly bizarre way. Go to Full Review
Jerry Renshaw Austin Chronicle Oct 23, 2007
It's worth seeing just for the sheer jaw-dropping amazement of it all. Go to Full Review
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid Jul 25, 2011
A stodgy old example of the establishment desperate attempt to cash in on an increasingly powerful youth counterculture movement. Go to Full Review
Sean Axmaker MSN.com Jul 20, 2011
... Keystone Mobsters, with career criminals and fun-loving hippies colliding in a comedy of flower power, slapstick and psychedelia... Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jan 5, 2008
B
A relic for the ages that puts a punctuation mark on the times. Go to Full Review
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Otto Preminger

Director

Jackie Gleason

Tough Tony Banks

Groucho Marx

God

Carol Channing

Flo Banks

Frankie Avalon

Angie

Fred Clark

Tower Guard

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Synopsis Tough Tony Banks (Jackie Gleason) is a malcontent mobster who is perpetually at odds with his wife, Flo (Carol Channing). When Tony receives an unusual assignment from a crime lord known as God (Groucho Marx), he reluctantly accepts and must get himself arrested and incarcerated with the sole purpose of killing an imprisoned convict. Tony's mission gets completely derailed, however, when he accidentally takes acid and has a mind-expanding experience that leads to an ambitious escape plan.
Director
Otto Preminger
Screenwriter
Doran William Conan
Rating
R (Drug Content|Some Nudity)
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Oct 1, 2015
Runtime
1h 37m
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