Cold Turkey [Blu-ray]

Director: Norman Lear Norman Lear

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/29/2018
UPC:	0887090141413
Original Release:	1971
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Olive
Region Code:	A
Language:	English
Time:	1:42:00
Sales rank:	14,589

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dick Van Dyke	Rev. Clayton Brooks
Bob Newhart	Merwin Wren
Pippa Scott	Natalie Brooks,Mr. Kandiss
Tom Poston	Mr. Stopworth
Edward Everett Horton	Hiram C. Grayson
Bob Elliott	Bob
Ray Goulding	Ray
Vincent Gardenia	Mayor Wrappler
Barnard Hughes	Dr. Procter
Graham Jarvis	Amos Bush
Jean Stapleton	Mrs. Wrappler
Barbara Cason	Letitia
Judith Lowry	Odie
Sudie Bond	Cissy
Helen Page Camp	Mrs. Watson
Paul Benedict	Zen Buddhist
Raymond Kark	Homer Watson
Peggy Rea	Mrs. Proctor
George Mann	Bishop Manley
Charles Pinney	Col. Galloway
M. Emmet Walsh	Art
Gloria LeRoy	The Hooker
Eric Boles	Dennis
Jack Grimes	TV Stage Manager
Walter Sande	Tobacco Executive
Woodrow Parfrey	Tobacco Executive
Harvey Jason	Hypnotist

Technical Credits

Norman Lear	Director,Producer
Bud Yorkin	Executive Producer