FeatureR1977·83m·6.2

The Kentucky Fried Movie

The hottest, most out-of-control movie ever to stagger onto the screen!

Comedy

A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.

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Cast

Evan C. Kim

Loo (segment "A Fistful of Yen")

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")

Marcy Goldman

Housewife (segment "Household Odors")

Bill Bixby

Himself (segment "Headache Clinic")

John Landis

TV Technician Thrown by Gorilla (segment "A.M. Today")

Donald Sutherland

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

Victoria Carroll

The Nurse (segment "That's Armageddon")

George Lazenby

The Architect (segment "That's Armageddon")

Saul Kahan

Schwartz (segment "Cleopatra Schwartz")

Dulcie Jordan

Guest #1 (segment "Household Odors")

Gracia Lee

Guest #2 (segment "Household Odors")

Sheila Rogers

Guest #3 (segment "Household Odors")

Henry Gibson

Himself (segment "United Appeal for the Dead")

Rick Baker

Dino (segment "A.M. Today") (as Richard A. Baker)

Felix Silla

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

Tony Dow

Wally (segment "Courtroom")

Boni Enten

Rita Filagree (segment "Courtroom")

Michael McManus

Hornung (segment "Courtroom")

Details

Status
Released
Original language
English
Languages
English
Budget
$600,000
Revenue
Age rating
R
Quality
4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
Production
United Film Distribution Company (UFDC)Kentucky Fried TheatreTaurus Film

Crew

Director

John Landis

Writers

Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker

Igo Kantor

Original Music Composer

Robert E. Collins

Director of Photography

George Folsey Jr.

Editor

Stephen M. Katz

Director of Photography

Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Costume Design

Gallery

Reviews

Toxic Fletch

5/9/2017

6.0

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**