Scavenger Hunt [Blu-ray]

Director: Michael Schultz Michael Schultz

Overview

When millionaire Vincent Price dies, he leaves a riotous will which amounts to a scavenger hunt, the winner of which receives the entire willed fortune. So 15 potential heirs are sent on a zany quest where they must outrace and outsmart one another to inherit the big bucks.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/10/2017
UPC:	0738329208622
Original Release:	1979
Rating:	PG
Source:	Kino Classics
Region Code:	A
Language:	English
Time:	1:56:00
Sales rank:	24,268

Special Features

Audio Commentary by Director Michael Schultz; Interview with Star Richard Benjamin; Interview with Actor Richard Masur; Trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Richard Benjamin	Stuart Selsome
James Coco	Henri
Scatman Crothers	Sam
Ruth Gordon	Arvilla Droll
Cloris Leachman	Mildred Carruthers
Cleavon Little	Jackson
Roddy McDowall	Jenkins
Robert Morley	Bernstein
Richard Mulligan	Marvin Dummitz
Tony Randall	Henry Motley
Dirk Benedict	Jeff Stevens
Willie Aames	Kenny Stevens
Stephanie Faracy	Babette
Stephen Furst	Merle
Richard Masur	Georgie Carruthers
Meat Loaf	Scum
Pat McCormick	Barker
Vincent Price	Milton Parker
Avery Schreiber	Zoo Keeper
Liz Torres	Lady Zero
Ruth Buzzi	Actor
Carol Wayne	Nurse
Stuart Pankin	Duane
Maureen Teefy	Lisa
Missy Francis	Jennifer Motley
Julie Anne Haddock	Michelle Motley
David Hollander	Jason Motley
Arnold Schwarzenegger	Actor
Shane Sinutko	Scott Motley
Henry Polic II	Naked Policeman
Hal Landon Jr.	Cornfield
Emory Bass	Hotel Manager
Jerry Fujikawa	Sakamato

Technical Credits

Steven A. Vail

Phil Cory	Special Effects
Paul Maslansky	Producer
Michael Schultz	Director
Melvin Simon	Executive Producer
Ray Svedin	Special Effects
Steven A. Vail	Producer,Screenwriter
Jon Parker Ward	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

This utterly wretched comedy succeeds in at least one respect: it captures the most hideous overtones of the late 1970s. Moreover, the film so wallows in desperation that it first becomes exhausting, and then horrifically depressing. Watching it, we get the very same stomach-turning sensation that we encounter from glancing at the LP cover of Cheech and Chong's 'Wedding Album' (with the Siamese twin bridegrooms and the bride with the vomit-stained brown paper bag over her head) or watching those Anatominal X-rated Yogi Bear parodies on SNL. Scavenger Hunt doesn't quite stoop to the vileness of those efforts (it is, after all, intended as 'family friendly'), but it qualifies as equally unfunny - mind-blowingly so. From then-obese Stuart Pankin's trip to the Jack-in-the-Box (shamelessly ripped off from the Animal House cafeteria scene), to Richard Mulligan's unconvincing drunk act, to a deathbed Vincent Price pushed over the proverbial cliff by his Anna Nicole-like buxom blonde mistress, nothing - not a single godforsaken miserable moment of this movie - elicits so much as one laugh. And that only makes the film's once-in-a-lifetime assemblage of late-Me Decade stars (Cloris Leachman, Tony Randall, Cleavon Little, Dick Benjamin, and many, many others) that much more unforgivable. How in the world Michael Schultz and his scripters (John Thompson, Steven Vail, and Gerry Woolery) managed to come up with such a dog, when they had such vast talent at their disposal, is baffling. The picture's catchy end-titles song, by Scatman Crothers (with a Johnny Rivers-esque female chorus), provides its one and only saving grace, and earns this film half a star. Otherwise, don't say you weren't warned. A footnote for the insistent: Hal Kanter's obscure 1980 telemovie For the Love of It captures some of the same zany overtones for which Scavenger Hunt strives - and throws in some off-the-wall surrealism as well. Even it will never be mistaken for a masterpiece, but it can at least be deemed 'watchable,' which is more than can be said for this groaner.