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The Movie Orgy (1968)

Directed by Joe Dante

Comedy | Science Fiction | Experimental

Overview

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.

Rated NR | Length 297 minutes

Actors

Goodman Ace | Jane Ace | Ann-Margret | Ngo Dinh Diem | Dwight D. Eisenhower | John Lennon | Paul McCartney | George Harrison | Ringo Starr | Walter Brennan | Walter Cronkite | Bing Crosby | Phyllis Diller | Dave Garroway | Arthur Godfrey | Stewart Granger | Bela Lugosi | Dean Martin | Edward R. Murrow | Jack Nicholson | Richard Nixon | Ralph Richardson | Gordon Scott | Howard K. Smith | Robert Vaughn | Allison Hayes | Yvette Vickers | George Fenneman | Groucho Marx | Steve Allen | Dick Clark | George Burns | Brett Halsey | Jackie Joseph | W.C. Fields | Alfred Hitchcock | David Love | Clayton Moore | Jay Silverheels | Gordon MacRae | Andy Devine | George Reeves | Noel Neill | Richard Greene | Alfie Bass | Bud Abbott | Lou Costello | Lon Chaney Jr. | Leo G. Carroll | Art Linkletter | George Raft | Lucien Littlefield | Kay Kyser | John Wayne | Christopher Lee | Hugh O'Brian | Walter Winchell | Mamie Van Doren | Elisha Cook Jr. | Elsa Martinelli | Anthony Quinn | Vincent Price | Peter Lorre | Boris Karloff | Basil Rathbone | Frankie Darro | Harpo Marx | Marian Jordan | Jim Jordan | Jeanne Crain | Elvis Presley | John Carradine | Buffalo Bob Smith | Chuck Connors | Johnny Crawford | Alan Ladd | Loretta Young | William Bendix | Victor Sen Yung | Dolph Sweet | John Agar | Conway Twitty | Sammy Davis Jr. | Noah Beery Jr. | Peter Fonda | Hugh Marlowe | Joan Taylor | Gail Patrick | Ozzie Nelson | Harriet Hilliard | David Nelson | Ricky Nelson | Marlon Brando | Jayne Meadows | Dion DiMucci | Broderick Crawford | Fred MacMurray | Morris Ankrum | Peter Graves | William Boyd | Faye Dunaway | Warren Beatty | Zeppo Marx | Eric Burdon | Sammy Petrillo | Glenn Langan | Richard Denning | George O'Hanlon | Gregory Peck | Penny Singleton | Arthur Lake | Rod Serling | Jackie Gleason | David Brinkley | Jimmy Durante | Ed Sullivan | Annette Funicello | Roy Rogers | Dale Evans | Jack Larson | Clint Eastwood

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

This was the third feature in the weekly Projection Booth watch party. When this started I wondered what version of this we were watching. Four hours and 40 minutes later I knew it was the touring version. Joe Dante took this version around to a few select cities 8 years ago doing an intro and Q&A. I missed it in Chicago b/c I heard about it after the fact, I think. It screened at the Nightingale the evening after Joe was here for a Gremlins 2 / The Hole double feature at MBT, which I did attend.

I was sad I missed this “movie” because it sounded really neat and totally my kind of thing. Yep, it totally is and would’ve been a treat to see in a theater with a bunch of other folks. Also it’s an endurance test, for sure, at that near 5 hour runtime. Yet it’s a film that even if you missed a bit here or there you really wouldn’t miss anything. It’s like a stream of consciousness, hyper active channel flipping assemblage of movie clips, commercials, news reports, music performances all (mostly) tied around 1950s science fiction B-movies.

It jumps around comedy bits from the Marx Brothers to Abbott and Costello between movies like Attack of the 50ft Woman and Amazing Colossal Man and other giant monster attack films like The Giant Claw and The Giant Gila Monster. Commercial breaks and news clips and other weird bits are interspersed. The Bufferin commercials are used a lot and are very amusing.

After seeing this I’d love to hear Joe discuss it as it’s clearly a passion project of a kid that grew up watching a lot of television and bad movies.

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