What is Cold Turkey / Hot Millions about?

Bob Newhart in Person! Bob Newhart is a comedy renaissance man who made his name with a series of classic comedy albums and a pair of landmark sitcoms. Join us for a pair of Newhart's best movies, with the legend himself in person. COLD TURKEY, 1971, MGM Repertory, 99 min. Norman Lear directed this comedy about an ad exec (Bob Newhart) who launches an unusual publicity stunt for big tobacco: A cigarette company will give a cash prize to any town in America that can quit smoking. When it looks like one town will actually pull it off, the ad man stops at nothing in his hilarious attempts to get someone -anyone - to light up. HOT MILLIONS, 1968, Warner Bros., 106 min. Dir. Eric Till. When con artist Marcus Pendleton (Peter Ustinov) gets out of prison, he assumes the identity of a computer programmer and uses his new role as a way of embezzling cash. His only problem is figuring out how to hide it.

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What is Cold Turkey / Hot Millions about?: Bob Newhart in Person! Bob Newhart is a comedy renaissance man who made his name with a series of classic comedy albums and a pair of landmark sitcoms. Join us for a pair of Newhart's best movies, with the legend himself in person.
COLD TURKEY, 1971, MGM Repertory, 99 min. Norman Lear directed this comedy about an ad exec (Bob Newhart) who launches an unusual publicity stunt for big tobacco: A cigarette company will give a cash prize to any town in America that can quit smoking. When it looks like one town will actually pull it off, the ad man stops at nothing in his hilarious attempts to get someone -anyone - to light up.
HOT MILLIONS, 1968, Warner Bros., 106 min. Dir. Eric Till. When con artist Marcus Pendleton (Peter Ustinov) gets out of prison, he assumes the identity of a computer programmer and uses his new role as a way of embezzling cash. His only problem is figuring out how to hide it.