Car Wash [Blu-ray]

Director: Michael Schultz Michael Schultz

Overview

Michael Schultz directed this kinetic, hyperventilating comedy (scripted by Joel Schumacher) concerning the crazed events that go on within a single 10-hour period at a Los Angeles car wash. The cast of colorful car-wash employees includes Lonnie (Ivan Dixon), an ex-con; Duane (Bill Duke), a militant black activist; and Lindy (Antonio Fargas), an obnoxious homosexual. Sully Boyar plays Mr. B, the frazzled car-wash owner who has to deal with his screwball employees along with his over-educated slip of a son, Irwin (Richard Brestoff), who quotes Mao and wants to radicalize the workers. Also along for the wash and wax are Miss Beverly Hills (Lauren Jones), with a wild assortment of wigs; Marsha (Melanie Mayron), the distracted car wash secretary; a mad bomber (Prof. Irwin Corey), who is terrorizing the neighborhood; and Daddy Rich (Richard Pryor), the founder of the Church of Divine Economic Spirituality, who sports a gold limousine. Danny de Vito, Brooke Adams and others were originally in the cast but their scenes were ultimately deleted.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/20/2017
UPC:	0826663176223
Original Release:	1976
Rating:	PG
Source:	Shout Factory
Region Code:	A
Language:	English
Time:	1:37:00
Sales rank:	17,582

Special Features

"Workin' At The Car Wash" With Otis Day; "Car Wash from Start to Finish" with Producer Gary Stromberg; Radio Spots; Trailer; Commentary with Director Michael Schultz

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Franklyn Ajaye	T.C.
George Carlin	The Taxi Driver
Prof. Irwin Corey	The Mad Bomber,Actor
Richard Pryor	Daddy Rich
Melanie Mayron	Marsha
Ivan Dixon	Lonnie
Sully Boyar	Mr. B
Bill Duke	Duane
Antonio Fargas	Lind
Jack Kehoe	Scruggs
Richard Brestoff	Irwin
Michael Fennell	Calvin
Arthur French	Charlie
Lorraine Gary	Hysterical Beverly Hills Lady
Darrow Igus	Floyd
DeWayne Jessie	Lloyd
Leonard Jackson	Earl
Lauren Jones	Marlene the Hooker
Henry Kingi	Goody
Garrett Morris	Slide
Clarence Muse	Snapper
Leon Pinkney	Justin
Tracy Reed	Mona
Pepe Serna	Chuco
James Spinks	Hippo
Ray Vitte	Geronimo
Ren Woods	Loretta
Carmine Caridi	Foolish Father
Sarina C. Grant	Newscaster,Newscaster
Billy Bass	Newscaster
Ben Frommer	Actor
Reginald Farmer	Actor
John Linson	Actor
Anita Pointer	Actor
Bonnie Pointer	Actor
June Pointer	Actor
Ruth Pointer	Actor
Antonie Becker	Charlene
Erin Blunt	Lonnie's Son
Derek Schultz	Foolish Father's Son
Otis Sistrunk	Otis
Tim Thomerson	Ken
Jason Bernard	Parole Officer
Jay Butler	AM Disc Jockey
J.J. Jackson	2nd PM Disc Jockey
Danny DeVito	Actor
Norman Whitfield	Composer

Technical Credits

Joel Schumacher

Michael Schultz	Director
Art Linson	Producer
Gary Stromberg	Producer
Joel Schumacher	Screenwriter
Don Phillips	Casting
Robert L. Hoyt	Sound/Sound Designer
Willie Burton	Sound/Sound Designer