What is The Party / Skidoo about?

Name: The Party / Skidoo
Genre: Comedy

THE PARTY, 1968, MGM Repertory, 99 min. Dir. Blake Edwards. For most of its length, THE PARTY is a restrained homage to Jacques Tati, with Peter Sellers as an awestruck Indian actor who disrupts a Hollywood gathering with the help of French songbird Claudine Longet. The final 15 minutes prove that any great joke deserves a totally outrageous punchline. Look for Steve Franken as an inebriated waiter and Denny Miller as a hilarious rhinestone cowboy. SKIDOO, 1968, Paramount, 97 min. Dir. Otto Preminger. Retired mobster Jackie Gleason is coerced by former colleagues back into business, going to prison to execute a contract on a crime commission squealer. Co-starring Carol Channing, Burgess Meredith, Mickey Rooney, George Raft, John Philip Law, Frankie Avalon - and Groucho Marx in his last film. Everyone in prison, including guards, eventually get dosed with LSD.

The Party / Skidoo

List

Theaters near

Loading format filters…

Frequently Asked Questions

What is The Party / Skidoo about?: THE PARTY, 1968, MGM Repertory, 99 min. Dir. Blake Edwards. For most of its length, THE PARTY is a restrained homage to Jacques Tati, with Peter Sellers as an awestruck Indian actor who disrupts a Hollywood gathering with the help of French songbird Claudine Longet. The final 15 minutes prove that any great joke deserves a totally outrageous punchline. Look for Steve Franken as an inebriated waiter and Denny Miller as a hilarious rhinestone cowboy.

SKIDOO, 1968, Paramount, 97 min. Dir. Otto Preminger. Retired mobster Jackie Gleason is coerced by former colleagues back into business, going to prison to execute a contract on a crime commission squealer. Co-starring Carol Channing, Burgess Meredith, Mickey Rooney, George Raft, John Philip Law, Frankie Avalon - and Groucho Marx in his last film. Everyone in prison, including guards, eventually get dosed with LSD.