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Cold Turkey Dick Van Dyke Bob Newhart DVD
This comedy is very notable as the final onscreen appearance (non-speaking) of Edward
Everett Horton, a staple comic supporting actor from the early '30s onward. Dick Van Dyke plays an ambitious small-town minister
who rallies the whole town to meet a challenge bet by a tobacco corporation. Cooked up by the tobacco company's public relations
head (Bob Newhart), the bet is an offer to pay twenty five million dollars ($25,000,000.00) to any town that can quit smoking
for the required period of time. Barnard Hughes is Dr. Proctor, a heart surgeon who has to be physically restrained to prevent
him from smoking. Jean Stapleton is the mayor's wife, who swells visibly as her eating replaces cigarettes. Edward Everett
Horton is eloquent as the mysterious tobacco tycoon who comes to observe the chaos first-hand. There is lots of frantic action
as the townsfolk try to win the prize, and the tobacco company (which has no intention of paying off the bet) works to sabotage
their efforts.
Item #127
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