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Cold Turkey (1971)

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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.

PG-13, 1 hr. 39 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Norman Lear

Written By: Norman Lear

In Theaters: Feb 19, 1971 Wide

United Artists

Cast

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

Critic Reviews for Cold Turkey

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at its best it is amusingly frantic and uses the cast in a number of effective characterizations

June 14, 2007 Comment

Douglas Pratt

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A very funny movie, with a good story and a good cast. I liked it.

September 5, 2010

AJ Verser

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The story of what happens when a multi million dollar tobacco company challenge a town of heavy smokers to give up smoking for 30 days.

October 18, 2007

Kay Dittrich

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