# Rich Little As Richard Nixon - Has ANYBODY Beside Me Seen This Film?

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**Created:** [March 6, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rich-little-as-richard-nixon-has-anybody-beside-me-seen-this-film/159448 "2003-03-06T06:58:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![SadTomato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@SadTomato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SadTomato)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rich-little-as-richard-nixon-has-anybody-beside-me-seen-this-film/159448/1 "2003-03-06T06:58:04Z")

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In the early '70s I saw a film called, either, **Another Nice Mess** or **Another Fine Mess**. It starred Rich Little as Richard Nixon and Herb Voland as Spiro Agnew.

It was a bizarre and rather crude comedy in which Little/Nixon and Voland/Agnew talked and acted like Laurel and Hardy (Nixon was Hardy and Agnew was Laurel).

This was a theatrically released, full-length feature film and not some odd student project or short.

I can find no information for this film **WHATSOEVER**. Has anybody beside me seen it?

How can a movie disappear from the face of the Earth?

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rich-little-as-richard-nixon-has-anybody-beside-me-seen-this-film/159448/2 "2003-03-06T07:23:21Z")

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I’ve seen RL do his Nixon thing on TV, but I’ve never heard of a movie with him doing that.

The only thing listed on the imbd with both of them in it is [Love on a Rooftop (1966)](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060003)

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**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rich-little-as-richard-nixon-has-anybody-beside-me-seen-this-film/159448/3 "2003-03-06T08:10:57Z")

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I saw it in 72 or 73. I remember it was produced by Tom Smothers.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rich-little-as-richard-nixon-has-anybody-beside-me-seen-this-film/159448/4 "2003-03-06T13:40:08Z")

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Looks like someone else remembers the same thing [here](http://www.laugh.com/main_pages/comicpage.asp?cid=15) (unless Sad Tomato = Andy Abelman) and it’s mentioned very briefly [here](http://www.jabootu.com/acolytes/bnotes/wwow.htm).

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**Author:** ![SadTomato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@SadTomato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SadTomato)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rich-little-as-richard-nixon-has-anybody-beside-me-seen-this-film/159448/5 "2003-03-06T17:08:36Z")

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Thanks, **kawliga** –good to know I wasn’t imagining the whole thing.

“Andy Abelman”? Nope, not me.

I just wonder how something that’s barely a film–like **Manos-The Hands of Fate** –can be remembered almost 40 years later–while something like this political curio has vanished without a trace.