70-80's style wild party comedy?

Question

Lookin for movie, call Hollywood Knights, simular to Bachlor party, etc.... n e help? tryin to find the movie, and the artist in it...

Answer 1

Hollywood Knights will be available on DVD again Feb 26, 2007 (Sony)

Plot Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
Fran Drescher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Tony Danza are the most notable aspects of this forgettable teen drama that features a gang of youths in a car club who decide to battle it out with the establishment in Beverly Hills. It seems their favorite haunt, the last drive-in restaurant in the neighborhood, has been forced to close. Their rebellion is marked by tactics that might be embarrassing to any serious rebels: they turn a high school banner into an X-rated statement, sabotage a police car, ruin a manicured garden, and urinate in a punch bowl. These shenanigans take place on Halloween in 1965, a time when practical jokes are usually in the hands of elementary school kids — and that level of maturity is maintained here.

Review by Donald Guarisco
This smutty but amusing nostalgia-themed comedy could best be described as American Graffiti meets Porky's. Combining these two different styles of comedy is interesting in theory but it doesn't really work in practice. As a result, The Hollywood Knights veers wildly between sentimentality and smuttiness in a thoroughly schizoid fashion. The sentimental moments are the film's low points: the Vietnam War-themed subplot built around Jimmy Shine feels like it was cut in from another film and the attempts at romantic drama between Duke and Suzi stop the film's momentum cold whenever they crop up. Another problem is the age-defying casting: All these "high school students" look like they are in their mid-twenties. However, The Hollywood Knights keeps from being a total waste thanks to its go-for-broke sense of humor; the attempts of the gang to disrupt the adults' civic functions are silly but effective (look out for "the one-armed violinist") and Robert Wuhl makes a memorably manic impression as comedic antihero Newbomb Turk. Other comedic highlights include a failed romantic encounter between Newbomb and Sally and Leigh French and Randy Gornel's turns as a pair of sex-crazed adulterers. In the end, The Hollywood Knights is too unfocused and silly to be considered a success but delivers enough laughs for comedy addicts.

Fran Drescher - Sally
Leigh French - Jacqueline Freedman
Randy Gornel - Wheatly
Gary Graham - Jimmy Shine
Sandy Helberg - Officer Clark
James Jeter - Smitty
Stuart Pankin - Dudley Laywicker
P.R. Paul - Simpson
Michelle Pfeiffer - Suzi Q.
Gailard Sartain - Rimbeau
Richard Schaal - Nevans
Robert Wuhl - Newbomb Turk
Tony Danza - Duke
Bill Lytle - Tubby's Customer
Al White - Louis
Otis Young - Waiter
Chuck Cooper - Himself
Bob Drake - Stunt
Joey Camen - Pledge
Mina Kolb - Dudley's Mother
Chuck Waters - Stunt
Demetre Phillips - Newbomb's Brother
Ken Hixon - Dark
Charles Stewart - Homeowner
Norman Lee - Cobra
Harvey Miller - Dr. J.
Al Chalk - Do Wopper
Daniel Davies - Pledge
Debra Feuer - Cheetah
Carol Ann Beery - Jane
T.K. Carter - Do Wopper
Jerry Brutsche - Driving Instructor
Glenn Withrow - Shorty
Arnold McCuller - Do Wopper
Art La Fleur - Thomas
Roberta Wallach - Shirley Weintraub
Moosie Drier - Moosie
Garry Goodrow - Jack Friedman
Walter Janowitz - Martin Katzenberg
Doris Hargrave - 'Mom'


Floyd Mutrux - Director / Screenwriter
Richard Lederer - Producer
William A. Fraker - Cinematographer
David Worth - Cinematographer
Stanford C. Allen - Editor
Scott Conrad - Editor
Danford B. Greene - Editor
Lee Fischer - Art Director
William Tennant - Executive Producer
Bruce Kay - Set Designer
Darryl Levine - Costume Designer
Bill Randall - Sound/Sound Designer

Answer 2

Hollywood Knights starred Robert Wuhl (minor part as the reporter in the first Batman with Micheal Keaton), Tony Danza, Fran Drescher, and Michelle Pfeiffer (very small part as Danza's girlfriend). It was more of a mix between American Grafitti and Animal House.

The Kinghts are a 1960's street gang and their favorite hang-out is being torn down November 1st (tomorrow in the film). So Halloween night just lends itself for all sorts of hijinx against the Beverly Hills snobs who are tearing down the drive-in burger joint. Very funny.

The movie was made in the early 80's but shelved for years but finally was released a few years ago, 2001 or there abouts. I know it was released on VHS, but I am not sure if it made it to DVD.

Answer 3

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