Where the hell is our old copy? It's one for Marple. Anyway this film was also long overdue and comes over now as quite polished (partly due to grown-up score of Elmer Bernstein), with lots of moments in silent movie vein, flagshipped by almost wordless pantomime performance from John Belushi (it's all in the eyebrows).
With Karen Allen, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst ('Flounder'), Mark Metcalfe (Neidermeyer), Mary Louise Weller (the great-named Mandy Pepperidge), James Daughton (the equally great named Greg Marmalard), Kevin Bacon, Tim Matheson (the smooth talker!) and Peter Riegert. With John Vernon, Donald Sutherland, Verna Bloom and Cesare Danova.
Written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller, shot by Charles Correll, edited by George Folsey Jr.
I'd forgotten it was set in 1962 also. Contrary to my confident assertion, Jessie Royce Landis was no relation to John.
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