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NICKVHS

Nickelodeon is a pre-cert UK VHS release by EMI on 1981. It got re-released by Thorn EMI Video on 1985.

Description[]

The year is 1910. The new entertainment medium, silent movies, is growing into an industry, and a group of innocent odd-balls find themselves in California making a film. Ryan O'Neal is a lawyer who smells success; Burt Reynolds, the leading man, is an ex-referee of alligator wrestling; Jane Hitchcock a myopic dancer who literally stumbles into movies; and Tatum O'Neal a kooky teenager who supplies the props. A series of location mishaps end up on film, proving an unexpected hit, and the film folk become 'stars'. Director Peter Bogdanovich's love for the early days of silent cinema shows in every physical detail lavished on the Hollywood pioneers. The climax is the premiere of D.W. Griffith's mammoth production The Birth of a Nation - clearly feature films are here to stay!

NICK VHS

Cast[]

  • Ryan O'Neal as Leo Harrigan
  • Burt Reynolds as Buck Greenway
  • Tatum O'Neal as Alice Forsyte
  • Jane Hitchcock as Kathleen Cooke
  • Brian Keith as H.H. Cobb
  • Stella Stevens as Marty Reeves
  • John Ritter as Franklin Frank
  • Brion James as bailiff
  • Sidney Armus as judge
  • Joe Warfield as defence attorney
  • Lorenzo Music as Mullins
  • Jeffrey Byron as Steve
  • Priscilla Pointer as Mabel
  • Philip Bruns as Duncan
  • Frank Marshall as Dinsdale's assistant
  • Harry Carey, Jr. as Dobie
  • James Best as Jim
  • George Gaynes as Reginald Kingsley
  • M. Emmet Walsh as "Father" Logan
  • Miriam Byrd-Nethery as Aunt Lula
  • Les Josephson as the Nickelodeon bouncer
  • Griffin O'Neal as a boy on a bicycle
  • Hamilton Camp as Blacker
  • Elaine Partnow as Movie Fanatic