The Kentucky Fried Movie

A loosely connected sketch collection that satirizes a broad spectrum of media genres—from news programs and commercials to porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, and mafia films—while weaving in a creeping fear that someone is watching you on the other side of the TV.

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John Landis

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Cast & Crew

George Lazenby

The Architect (segment "That's Armageddon")

Branscombe Richmond

Guard (segment "A Fistful of Yen")

Donald Sutherland

The Clumsy Waiter (segment "That's Armageddon")

Manny Perry

John Cassisi

Teenage Volunteer

Evan C. Kim

Loo (segment "A Fistful of Yen")

George Cheung

Guard #1 (segment "A Fistful of Yen")

Jerry Zucker

Rick Baker

John Landis

Jim Abrahams

Stephen Stucker

Stenographer (segment "Courtroom")

Marcy Goldman

Housewife (segment "Household Odors")

William Tregoe

John Fitzsimmons (segment "A.M. Today")

David Zucker

Marcus K. Mukai

Guard #2 (segment "A Fistful of Yen")

Felix Silla

Crazed Clown (segment "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble")

Michael McManus

Hornung (segment "Courtroom")

Bill Bixby

Himself (segment "Headache Clinic")

Henry Gibson

Himself (segment "United Appeal for the Dead")

Dick Yarmy

Taylor (segment "Courtroom")

Uschi Digard

Woman in Shower (segment "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble")

Sheila Rogers

Guest #3 (segment "Household Odors")

Peggy Doyle

Auntie Em (segment "A Fistful of Yen")

Michael Alaimo

Usher (segment "Feel-a-Round")

Tony Dow

Wally (segment "Courtroom")

Bong Soo Han

Dr. Klahn (segment "A Fistful of Yen")

Agneta Eckemyr

Ming Chow (segment "A Fistful of Yen")

Marilyn Joi

Cleopatra Schwartz (segment "Cleopatra Schwartz")

Saul Kahan

Dulcie Jordan

Guest #1 (segment "Household Odors")

Gracia Lee

Guest #2 (segment "Household Odors")

Victoria Carroll

The Nurse (segment "That's Armageddon")

Boni Enten

Rita Filagree (segment "Courtroom")

Tara Strohmeier

Girl (segment "Eyewitness News", as Tara Strohmeir)

Lenka Novak

Linda Chambers (segment "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble")

Nancy Mann

Susan Joyce (segment "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble")

Betsy Genson

Nancy Reems (segment "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble")

Jeff Maxwell

Man (segment "Feel-A-Round")

Phillip Rhee

Klahn's Guard (segment "A Fistful of Yen")

Richard Gates

Boy (segment "Eyewitness News")

Jack Baker

Man (segment "Sex Record")

Sharon Kaough

Woman (segment "Sex Record")

Shadoe Stevens

Voice Overs (voice)

Derek Murcott

Pennington (segment "A Fistful of Yen")

Colin Male

Spokesman (segment "Argon") / Voice Overs (voice)

Tracy Landis

Candy Counter Girl (segment "Feel-a-Round"

Details

GenresComedy

Runtime1h 23 mins

Released on10 Aug 1977

Languageen

Age RatingR

Produced InUnited States of America

Reviews

Toxic Fletch

6/10

Not unlike Monty Python's Flying Circus or The Benny Hill Show, The Kentucky Fried Movie, no actual relation to Kentucky or chicken, is an uneven collection of comedy skits, but being this is not for television it is sleazed up for one's viewing pleasure. Parodying much of 70s TV shows and movies, there are skits like the naughty Catholic High School Girls in Trouble promo reel, a blaxploitation parody, and the gem of the movie which is a kung-fu parody which takes up a good bit of the movie's running time. Like any comedy skit anthology the skits are uneven. Some are winners, some are flops. In retrospect they are perhaps more interesting in looking back on the 70s in a parody format. But the kung-fu parody is truly on target in what it parodies and the centerpiece of the movie. Alone I would give the kung-fu parody an 8/10 rating. Unfortunately some of the other skits drag down the whole of the movie, but it is worth it just to see the kung-fu bit. I give it 6/10 **Toxic Fletch**

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