Is there some grand conspiracy to determine what content can be viewed? How can a movie be barred from television, theater and home release? I just went by an independent tape rental place. The place you GO for hard to find films. The kind of store that would go the extra mile to hunt down a child porn snuff film if you asked nicely [intended as humor only]
When I asked for THIS movie, the guy just shook his head in disgust. You would have thought I had just asked for the remake of Ishtar.
Now you must be thinking this is an obscure, low budget foreign film with unknown characters. Oh contrare. Would you belevieve:
Groucho Marx, Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, and Frankie Avalon? It is "Skidoo,"an Otto Preminger film, 1967. Groucho Marx plays the godfather and smokes a joint. It was his last film and I beleive his only appearance in color film. Jackie Gleason is a retired hitman and drops acid in his prison cell. The film is very pro hippy and pro drug. My question is…how can a film with such a renowned cast be kept out of view? It isn’t like they totally have banned Cheech and Chong…even from Blockbuster. So who has the power to keep this in a lockbox? I’m on a friggin’ crusade. Somebody help me! The world needs to see Groucho spark a joint!
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What sort of smart ass answer is that? The guy with two posts to his credit asks a simple question, only to be rudely informed that instead of posting on these boards and enjoying the whole SDMB experience, to take it to Google.
Now, I don’t have an answer, either, but in that case, I don’t post a response to the OP. Is that so difficult? Is it so hard to show some civility and not act like a snob?
Primarly because it sucked so badly it created a vacuum. The IMDB gives is a pathetic 3.2 rating, and the film was a major flop at the box office. So there weren’t a lot of VCR copies made, and no DVD yet.
Ishtar, BTW, was actually a pretty funny film overall.
Casey, thanks for coming to my defense. Yes, I’m new here. I’ve been online since…shoot. do the commodore 64 BBS’s count? Well anyway, I’ll go with 94’ on a win 3.1 and Mosaic browser at 40 bucks a month on a 1200 baud dial up. So I’m no stranger to the net or search engines and yes I have looked. Quite a bit actually. “Skidoo” searches yield thousands of snow mobile pages. Refining has led me to sites with film info, but none on availability.I can take the heat of flame war and humble myself. The fact is I have a tremendous respect for Cecil and the combined brain power of this forum. That’s why I chose to ask here. Rag on me all you like. I appreciate your help. TEOMA.COM
btw, is a wonderful search engine you should choose to incorporate. It is obviously falable[sp?] as was the case here.
But it incorporates a peer reveiw that sorts things nicely. If you search for “Mustang” it will not only offer options between Ford and horses, but list the sites ordered descending by the ones most linked to by peers thus making the most popular and relevent rise to the top. In this case…that might not always be a good thing. But it is one hell of a powerful search engine that can also be loaded as a nifty search bar below your URL address bar. Thanks again to all of you. I look forward to batting heads soon.
Not available at his/her/its local video store. I would have phrased the response you gave him/her/it a little more politely, given the fact that they only posted 2 times to that point. In hindsight, I would have phrased my reply less sharply as well.
This damn thing finally posted while I was elsewhere (and even so took far less time than has been the case for the past two days) and I took another look at the thread.
On second reading, despite the response to Casey1515’s mention of Google that throw me off, it looks as if Reeder was actually referring to Teoma and not Google.
Although I have Teoma bookmarked, I can understand how someone might not yet have heard of it. (And I find it distinctly inferior to Google, so I seldom use it.)
So my astonishment was a mistake, and I apologize to Reeder if any offense was taken.
To the OP: It’s possible that this film ended up in some weird limbo when a catalogue was sold or one of it’s lease agreements ended up in a failed merger or some other business SNAFU.
Additionally if Blockbuster is not interested in carrying a title, there’s not much incentive to produce copies. The online copy is probably old old old from the earliest days of VHS. “Meet the Feebles” was in some kind of can’t get it nowhere mess for years, and then all of a sudden it was on cable and for sale and the sun shone again.
Just because it has some bad reviews, kiddo, that doesn’t mean the OP doesn’t have a good reason for seeking it out. Perhaps frithrah wants to collect every single film featuring Groucho. Perhaps frithrah is writing an article or paper on Otto Preminger and needs a copy of the film. Perhaps frithrah saw this film on late-night television that wonderful summer at Aunt Bertha’s lake house and wants to bring a little bit of the glowing childhood memory into his home. Perhaps frithrah has a freak sexual urge to masturbate to images of Frank Gorshin. It it any of our business? Help me find this film is pretty much all we need to know.
